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Hi Guys.
I need to get this going. Normally I don't have any problems with humidity regardless of what the Garage/shop is, on the average inlay the actual wood part is only in the shop for routing, gluing, and sanding, with relatively long (overnight at least) pauses between each, and maybe only a hour or a few (three maybe) in the shop at a time. The parts generally live in my nicely air conditioned drawing room in the house.
With my inlays becomenig ever more time consumning and complex I am starting to worry about controlling humidity levels. Any recommendations?
Dave B your in Fl, what do you use?
Thanks
Craig L.

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I don't think the brand matters as much as where you buy it. I have two Goldstar units which are Korean made. They came through my neices resale store new, so it was probably overstock or slow merchandise. Fifty bucks but probably three or four times than that on a retail level. They work fine. She had another brand Haier or something like that, but those didn't have digital controls which I like a lot.

I keep my shop at 45 percent, right now running a humidifier, but at times, rainy periods, will have to switch over and dehumidify during the winter.

I never would have figured that I would ever need a Dehumidifier out here in West Texas. Maybe a humidifier, but this year I have lost at least 60 day of building due to rapid humidity rises. It would go from 40% to 100% over night and stay there for weeks on end. I have finally had enough. even if I don't use it but a couple times a year I am putting in a dehumidifier.MichaelP38383.5742361111

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If you've got serious humidity as you've got in Texas, and depending upon the size of your space the answer is the Thermastor Santa Fe. It runs around $1200, but it removes more than those two Goldstars at half the combined amperage. It also generates less heat than the two Goldstars (insert Bemis, Hampton Bay, Sears, etc. -- your average 50pt units. Plus they sell a condensate pump so you don't have to empty it, just run the hose into the sink or a floor drain and you're done. It even has a two inch thick prefilter to clean the air to protect the unit.


Thermastor and ask for Bernie.dberkowitz38383.7623726852

Well, I went out and purchased a hygrometer, and it's been in the room a while, and it's reading 48%.
I guess for now at least I don't have a problem.

Remember I am in South Florida, so I am sure in the summer I'll be needing one. That or my house AC leaks horribly into the garage, and I don't need one
Maybe I'll be lucky
Thanks guys.
Craig.

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I just run one Goldstar in my shop. The other is for the house, I have guitars there as do most of you-uns!

I got one free, the other I gave fifty smackeroos for it, and yeah, I have to empty it all the time. I just dump the water in my humidifier and wait for just the right time for the old switcheroo..... shoot, I'm just standing around building guitars anyway.

The amperage consumption on these 60 pint units is: 5.7, what's yours using DB?

Hi Craig,
I use the Kenmore 70 pint low temp model. It works great but I have to empty the darn container almost everyday. When I get into my new shop ( hopefully next 6 mos.) I will hook up a drain hose. By-the-way...I have this unit currently in my dining room which I have temporarily taken over as storage and partial workshop. Keep in mind that I air-condition my house all year at around 70 degrees. With that in mind know that hummidity is usually around 67-70% !!!!! So don't think that the A/C is keeping your stuff at a good hummidity level. Here in Sarasota hummidity runs around 90% on average. Now when I heat (one week a year)my home it drys out real fast and I have to actually HUMIDIFY. So...it's a bit of a pain...I have Hygrometers all over the place just to keep things in order. Looking for a new home and workspace so things will be changing soon. One more thing...these de-humidifiers make noise...like a wall banger a/c. I suppose the real good ones are more quiet. GOOD LUCK!

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[QUOTE=dberkowitz] If you've got serious humidity as you've got in Texas, and depending upon the size of your space the answer is the Thermastor Santa Fe. It runs around $1200, but it removes more than those two Goldstars at half the combined amperage. It also generates less heat than the two Goldstars (insert Bemis, Hampton Bay, Sears, etc. -- your average 50pt units. Plus they sell a condensate pump so you don't have to empty it, just run the hose into the sink or a floor drain and you're done. It even has a two inch thick prefilter to clean the air to protect the unit.


Thermastor and ask for Bernie.[/QUOTE]
David I am in the high desert of West Texas our avg. RH is 40% almost year round. Our typical annual rain fall is 12.3". This year however we ended up over 30". Typically I can count on one hand the days that the RH is over 50%, summer included. We have been in a 7 year drought and this is our first season exiting the drought. When ever we come out of a drought cycle it seem that we always have a strange weather pattern for one year. In fact as I type we are getting heavy wet snow. really wet snow is very rare here. Next year I would wager we see only three to five days over 60%