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I purchased 3 Newair AW281E during the winter to turn them into wineadors. I didn't have the need to plug them in because the temperature have been in the 65 - 71 range (but I did test them to make sure they were functional). Yesterday the day was very hot and my wineadors hygrometers were reading 78 - 81 so I decided that it was time to plug them in as the weather will only get worst from now on.
I have 3 pounds of Heartfelt 65% beads in each of them and the humidity have been spot on during the whole winter. After plugin them, I decided to set the temperature to 66. One of them have 2 wooden drawers and dividers from Forrest and the others have 2 of the metal dividers that came with them. I made sure nothing was covering the cooling system and that It had enough room for air to circulate. I do not have extra fans in them.
The issue that I'm experiencing is that after plugin the units, the 2 without the wooden drawers seem to have stabilized fairy quickly, the humidity went up a bit to 66 - 67 % and the temperature came down to about 68 - 71 in about 2 hours. The one with the wooden drawers destroyed my humidity and brought it down to 54% and the temperature wouldn't come down from 74. I decided to leave it overnight and see if it would stabilize, after inspecting it this morning the readings remained the same. I have 3 different hygrometers in that unit. I then decided to bring the temperature down to 58 to see if it was having problems cooling. An hour later I went back to check and the temperature went down to 67 and the humidity to 43%! What the heck is going on here guys? 3 pounds of beads in there, for some reason I'm starting to think that this unit is sucking the humidity out some how. I also noticed that this is the only unit that's producing a fairly amount of condensation. Any ideas as to why this is happening? Before leaving to work I sprayed 1 of the 3 pounds with more distilled water and I reset the temperature to 66.
I have 3 pounds of Heartfelt 65% beads in each of them and the humidity have been spot on during the whole winter. After plugin them, I decided to set the temperature to 66. One of them have 2 wooden drawers and dividers from Forrest and the others have 2 of the metal dividers that came with them. I made sure nothing was covering the cooling system and that It had enough room for air to circulate. I do not have extra fans in them.
The issue that I'm experiencing is that after plugin the units, the 2 without the wooden drawers seem to have stabilized fairy quickly, the humidity went up a bit to 66 - 67 % and the temperature came down to about 68 - 71 in about 2 hours. The one with the wooden drawers destroyed my humidity and brought it down to 54% and the temperature wouldn't come down from 74. I decided to leave it overnight and see if it would stabilize, after inspecting it this morning the readings remained the same. I have 3 different hygrometers in that unit. I then decided to bring the temperature down to 58 to see if it was having problems cooling. An hour later I went back to check and the temperature went down to 67 and the humidity to 43%! What the heck is going on here guys? 3 pounds of beads in there, for some reason I'm starting to think that this unit is sucking the humidity out some how. I also noticed that this is the only unit that's producing a fairly amount of condensation. Any ideas as to why this is happening? Before leaving to work I sprayed 1 of the 3 pounds with more distilled water and I reset the temperature to 66.