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- Amazon Sales Rank: #378253 in Home
- Brand: Frigidaire
- Model: FAD704DUD
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Features: Ready-Select Controls Easily select options with the touch of a button. Effortless Clean Filter Our antibacterial filter reduces bacteria, room odors and other airborne particles for a cool comfortable environment. Effortless Humidity Control Allows you to control the exact percentage of humidity in your room. Energy and Cost Savings The unit operates at a low temperature – Capacity: 70 pints/day Timer: Yes Fan Speed: 2 Remote Control: Yes Power Consumption: 765 W Power Supply: 115V / 60Hz Plug Type: 5-15P
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
Review of Often Easy-to-Find Big Dehumidifiers (65-70pints) 2013
By Neil E. Isenberg
This review compares these big dehumidifiers:- Frigidaire 70 pint (FAD704DUD)- SoleusAir 70 pint (DP1-70-03)- LG 65 pint (LG651EBL)NOTES/WARNINGS:-------------------- If you have a medical/allergy, anti-mold, archival, or otherwise serious reason to maintain a humidity range you need to get something SEPARATE TO MEASURE HUMIDITY. The Frigidaire thought the humidity was 5-9 RH higher than it was as measured by 2 humidity instruments including a data logger, the SoleusAir was off by more than that, the LG doesn't show what it thinks the humidity is.For example, here are some settings and resulting relative humidity ranges for the Frigidaire in my tests:Setting Humidity_Range_Result50 41.0-45.055 46.0-49.560 51.5-54.5- Be sure to have a 3-PRONG OUTLET for each dehumidifier you get, NO 2-prong with adapter shortcuts, you want this kind of appliance grounded, like a refrigerator or air conditioner.- Running big dehumidifiers non-stop often costs hundreds of dollars per year each and it may only bring the humidity lower than needed for comfort, medical, or archival purpose. Consider aiming for just below your target, for example 53 RH to keep below 55 RH rather than continuous running to get as low as possible. Of course, if it takes continuously running to get to the target, ignore this suggestion :).Sometimes you can get BIG savings by not doing more dehumidifying than you need. For example, we set our Frigidaire in the basement to 60, which gives us 51.5-54.5 RH on a range, anything lower is a waste of electricity for us. Using the average cost of electricity in the U.S. of 12 cents per Kilowatt Hour you can see the savings below:Setting Humidity_Range_Result Watt_Hrs Cost/Yr_at_12cents_per_kWhr50 41.0-45.0 11738 $42855 46.0-49.5 10403 $38060 51.5-54.5 970 $35 <-- Not a misprint- I highly suggest getting no-fault extended warranty for 2+ years if you can get it for any dehumidifier, even though I rarely bother with them for other products.- If you need to reliably pump a few feet up to get into a sink (for drainage), for example, ignore all of this and look at something like the Friedrich 70 pint with the built-in pump.- See near bottom of review for section on one inexpensive easy way to get the water right into the drain (for example, if you have pets tempted by dribbling water - its not drinking water).- The LG has pretty terrible reviews on Amazon regarding durability. Also, note that LG made the Sears Kenmore Dehumidifiers sold up to 2009 that are being recalled last year due to fire risk.----------------------------------------------------------------------------HOW NOISY (dBA) I FOUNDTHEM TO REALLY BE ATMAX FAN SPEED:--------------------------dBA at distances (1'/5'/10'/15'):Frigidaire: 62.0 / 56.0 / 53.0 / 51.5SolieusAir: 66.0 / 60.5 / 57.5 / 55.5LG: 58.5 / 55.5 / 53.0 / 50.0If your primary concern is noise then you might want to avoid the SoleusAir. Since Frigidaire is so much better reviewed than the LG, I'd lean towards the Frigidaire over LG for this since the loudness difference is fairly small unless you are going to be fairly close to it.I should note that the nature of the noise of the Frigidaire is more like white noise from a strong fan as you rarely hear much from the unit's compressor over the fan.HOW MUCH WATER I FOUNDTHEY ACTUALLY HOLD:---------------------------Frigidaire: 17.7 lbsSoleusAir: 13.4 lbsLG: 15.8 lbsIf you can't use a drain and you want it to do as much work as it can during the night or while you are at work, then Frigidaire wins here. If water hauling weight is a primary concern then SoleusAir has an edge here.HOW MUCH WATER I FOUNDTHEY CAN REALLY PULL OUTOF THE AIR IN AN HOUR ATMAX FAN SPEED:---------------------------Frigidaire: 0.82 lbs water per hourSoleusAir: 0.69 "LG: 0.53 "If sheer power is your main concern, for example correcting an 18 RH humidity spike ASAP after towels go through the dryer, Frigidaire wins here. These numbers are an average of the bottom two runs out of three tests I did for each unit.Note that the first Frigidaire I tested performed poorly at 0.47 lbs of water per hour. I returned it and the new one I got 3 months later did this well which much better reflects the performance satisfaction by a leading consumer magazine.HOW COST EFFICIENTI FOUND THEY ARE TO RUN:---------------------------Frigidaire: 645 Watt Hours electricity to remove 1 lb. of waterSoleusAir: 690 "LG: 800 "This is not extrapolated from data sheets, this was measured.The LG will likely overall cost more to operate, the Frigidaire and SoleusAir win here. These numbers are an average of the bottom two out of three test runs for each unit.HOW MUCH TIME TO FILLTHEIR BUCKET IN WINTERIN ONE EXAMPLE BASEMENTAT TOP FAN SPEED:-------------------------Frigidaire: 0.9 daysSoleusAir: 0.8 daysLG: 1.2 daysRemember that the bins hold different amounts of water. The full range for the Frigidaire in my tests was 0.74-0.92 days to fill its bucket.MISC. NOTES:--------------Frigidaire:Easily the most attractive, build quality is excellent. Well reviewed by respected independent consumer magazine. Has top and side handles.Look out for cleaning filter light going on erroneously early on in order to facilitate an exchange while it is still easy to do. It is easy to spot, after going off early you would clean the filter put it back in and it would still be on.As noted above, the first Frigidaire dehumidifier I bought was performance defective and I returned it. These numbers are from testing the replacement.LG:As noted above, has pretty bad reviews on Amazon regarding durability. Vents out the back and thus requires 1' distance from a wall, the others vent upwards. So expect in some cases to have to point the front to the wall and spin it around to remove the bin (if you use a bin) now and then (easy to do, just FYI).Has no top handle only side handles, the others have top and side handles. If it ever goes up steps you will likely wish it had the top handle.All:All of them had easy to remove and place bins with good handles and were tough to spill unless not paying attention (I've read a review saying LG was bad for spilling the bin, though I didn't find it difficult, but I thought I should mention it FYI). They all have wheels. I often don't get no-fault replacement warranties, but I would definitely get 2+ year one for these.CAN THESE REALLYHELP AFTER A FLOOD:---------------------After a week running continuously at full fan speed the wet/damp smell from a little flood in the basement went away.GIVE ME A REAL WORLDEXAMPLE OF ON-GOINGUTILITY:----------------------To help prevent basement mold we target 50-55 RH as a cost efficient target. We found to get this we need to set the dehumidifier to a higher target value (in our case 65 RH in Winter, 60 RH in Spring), your unit will vary, see warning above about needing a separate humidity meter).Ordinarily our basement ranges from 54-59 RH or so in Winter. Depending on what we set the dehumidifier to we can target a 3-4 RH range anywhere between 38rh to 54rh (we didn't test higher) but couldn't get it lower than 38 RH with a single dehumidifier for our middle-sized basement.If we wanted to keep it down to 38-41 RH by running it continuously I measured it costs around 6x-10x more in kWh of electricity (depending on time of year), thus costing hundreds of dollars more per year, compared to keeping it in the 50-55 RH range which meets many folks basement needs.Obviously your mileage will vary by time of year, geography, unit, air leakage, etc., this is just one real world example, hope it helps!HOW TO GET THE WATERRIGHT INTO A DRAIN:------------------------Get a 3/4" to 1/4" brass female HOSE FITTING ($5.50) (Home Depot 098268532173) and have someone at a hardware store attach it to a 10' 1/4" flexible VINYL TUBE ($2.75) for you (Home Depot 048643025486) using a 1/4" Delrin SLEEVE INSERT (Home Depot 048643070356) cut to preferred length, and put the tube right into the drain. I edged the tube along the wall behind a pipe to keep it taught, straight, and sloping. Now the cats can't drink the non-potable water as it comes out and the tube is almost invisible.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Absolutely Needed
By Teener
This product does exactly that is stated. Have had no problems with it at all. Shipped in the time specified also. Not noisy like some of the other brands of Dehumidifer.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.love it
By Sketch
does what it says, extracts 70 pints a day, i use this in a grow room at night when the plants transpire it can get up to 99%. i have a 40 pint a day that runs with this unit, i love the design of this one better, the drain hose just screws on and already points downward, my old one comes out at a right angle then you must bend the hose in a large half circle to get it near the drain. this one is a great design and i will order another one.
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