It's time to tackle dehumidifiers
Added 2025-04-25 20:21:57 +0000 UTCThey're simple machines with some surprising side-effects!
You'll notice that this video is a bit long. It was going to be longer! But the reason I ultimately shelved this until now was that the original version of this script was trying to tackle too much at the same time. And it took a while to re-work it into something which flowed reasonably well. I'm still not completely satisfied with it, to be honest, but I think that's mostly because the central point of this video is pretty subtle.
Now, I'd like to publish this tomorrow and so I'll be working on captions ASAP, but it'll be a few hours until they're up most likely.
In other news, I hope you notice an audio improvement on this one. April began with some behind-the-scenes work where I installed sound absorbing panels in the filming room. I think they've made a massive improvement to the acoustics! And they look much nicer than moving blankets...
On a personal note, that work, along with taxes and general anxieties meant that April felt a bit like swimming in molasses. I'm going to be taking a bit of a break but I have some cool stuff on the way that I'm really excited to show you! If it's shipped when it's supposed to be shipped, expect an unboxing video in early May.
Thanks as always for your support!
Comments
You really need to take a look at Heat Pump Clothes dryers. I know they aren't popular in North America yet, but your style of analysis will really show how good they are. Take that dehumidifier, pipe the hot dry exhaust air into a drum of tumbling wet clothes. Out comes a moist cool air which feeds back into the front of the dehumidifier. All the heat needed to get the moisture evaporated from the clothes is regained when it condenses! Very little moisture leaks out into the room, so no venting needed. The air going in is dryer than ambient, so doesn't need to be as hot as other dryers. less damage to clothes and less heat leaking into your home. Mine has a peak power rating of 600W It is the lowest powered appliance in my kitchen.
DrumBrakes
2025-06-04 15:40:19 +0000 UTCHi! So long story short, this video made me spend $133. Long story short, I've been watching for nearly two years now, and finally, this video opened my eyes as to my own mistake. I had a 5L dehumidifier that cost me about £30 last year, to warm up our bathroom and hopefully reduce the mold and damp. This exact video gave me the information to actually make a smart consumer choice. So yesterday I spent £99 on a big 20L dehumidifier (WITH A DRY CLOTHES SETTING!!!) and just turning it on made so much more of a difference in the bathroom. Thank you for what you do. It feels like such a mundane thing, buying a dehumidifier, but I think all my admiration for what you do bubbled over into this scenario and I can't thank you enough.
Jeanette Louise Malay
2025-04-30 19:08:16 +0000 UTCGreat video! Wonder what you'll think about my situation which I feel like makes a dehumidifier for me a must but was not covered explicitly in the video. I live in an area where summer temperature reaches 40 celsius (like 104f) and my apartment doesn't have a heatpump a/c, but rather a fan coil unit. This unit takes cold water from the building-wide cool water supply (I think it is cooled by heatpumps somewhere in the cellar) and uses that to cool the air. It works well to cool off the air, however since the temperature of this water likely doesn't get as cold as the evaporator of the heatpumps does, this fan coil unit doesn't dehumidify the air as effectively. Hence, you get cool air and an extreme humidity (75% and more!). For us in this situation dehumidifier was a salvation and with it we were able to get to both comfortable humidity and temperature
Artem
2025-04-29 09:04:08 +0000 UTCI lived in San Francisco and had a dust mite allergy for several years. Dust mites can't survive when the humidity is below 50%. I had a dehumidifier set to 45%. Never really cold or hot in San Francisco, but the humidity was always high enough for those dust mites. Another use case for dehumidifiers beyond comfort and protecting stuff.
Doug Kent
2025-04-28 06:11:32 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed this one. Thanks, Alec.
Jake Laack
2025-04-27 20:17:51 +0000 UTC
