When the unit is started, the fan begins to pull moisture-laden air across the dehumidifying coil. The coils condense or draw moisture from the air and air flows through the side louvers into the room as dry, warm air. Moisture removed from air is collected in a bucket on the front of the dehumidifier. The slide-out bottom also provides easy filter access
Price: $195.99
Improves Home Environment and Air Quality
- Energy Star 50 pints per day dehumidifier (115 volts)
- Protects your home from mold and mildew caused by excess moisture
- SpaceWise design includes top handle, integrated side handles and caster wheels
- Helps eliminate bacteria in the air that can make breathing difficult
- Antibacterial mesh filter reduces bacteria, room odors and other airborne particles
Continuous Pump Option
- Continuous operation is possible when unit is located near a suitable drain
- Effortless full tank alert system with auto shut-off
- 2 fan speeds for more flexibility
- Front, pull-out 16.3 pint tank with handle and splash guard
- Effortless humidity control allows you to control the exact percentage of humidity in your room
- Electronic controls with digital humidity readout
- Low temperature operation saves energy and money
- Extra long 6 ft. three-prong power cord makes extension cords unnecessary
Features:
- Protects your home from mold and mildew caused by excess moisture
- Helps eliminate bacteria in the air that can make breathing difficult
- Effortless humidity control allows you to control the exact percentage of humidity in your room
- Continuous operation is possible when unit is located near a suitable drain
- Effortless full tank alert system with auto shut-off
Review:
Several reviewers have commented on the noisy fan. The fan on my Frigidaire FAD504DWD Energy Star 50-pint Dehumidifier, unlike my Whirlpool e-Humidifier (which sounds like a prop plane on a windy day) is muted, and cannot be heard from 2 rooms down – and this is with the fan setting on HIGH.
The Frigidaire FAD504DWD Energy Star 50-pint Dehumidifier arrived well packed (Styrofoam), battened down, with taped-to-body bucket, and did not need any assembly, other than removing the tape, moving it on its gliiiding casters (great handle on top too — I had to pick this up and it is not lightweight– the handle withstood the tugging and the hefting). It is handsomely designed, looks more-than-just-utilitarian, is pleasing to look at.
There is a drain in the back, for continuous use. A beeper lets you know that the bucket needs to be looked at (full, or not all the way tucked back into the body). The bucket has a handle — oh joy!! I had to be so careful with the Whirlpool’s bucket– using one hand on each side of the bucket as I slooowly removed it from the body to keep things from splashing. Now all I have to do with the Frigidaire is pull the bucket forward, boldly pick up the bucket by the handle, and go to the balcony to water my plants with the excess water. I have found that adding a tiny bit of bleach to the water in the bucket, in-between bucket removal, helps to keep mold and mildew at bay (a lesson I learned from a former Dehumidifier that had to be Put To Sleep way before its time, as the green and black 3-D mold and mildew had crawled their way into inaccessible areas of the unit).
The controls are EZ to read and use – no buttons, just a touch pad. The Instructional booklet in English, Spanish and French, was easy to understand and is quite thorough, including a page’s worth of trouble-shooting advice. Just keep things clean, wash the filter, replace it when indicated, and of course keep dumping the bucket, or draining the water (the drain outlet looks well-built and up to the task.
I have not used the timer-function but it will come in handy when I need it. The lack of noise is wonderful– my old Whirlpool De-Humidifier was so noisy that although I was pretty sure my downstairs neighbors don’t sleep in their livingroom/dinette, the noise from the Whirlpool was floor-rattling.
I live in a climate with three seasons — Spring/Summer (summer is hot hot hot, with humidity that almost rolls thru the air), Autumn (with sometimes very rainy Septembers) and Winter (usually dry, but sometimes host to a Mega Snowstorm). So this Frigidaire FAD504DWD Energy Star 50-pint Dehumidifier has arrived at just the right time – as soon as Spring affirms its dainty-sweet existence, Summer will be leapfrogging over it to assert its dominance, with at-times scorching heat and mega humidity. I look forward to using this Frigidaire Dehumidifier for six months of almost-constant use. Yes I have A/C in all rooms except kitchen and bathroom, but when the AC is on in the brutish part of the summer, you would not know it.
The Whirlpool? Will be relegated to the kitchen — where so much of my food can be prone to spoiling because there is no heat or air-conditioning in the kitchen. By Ace
via Beezmobile
