@PahPahCee @Fatdaddy
Appreciate the info guys
If i understand correctly, you only drill holes for the sensor probe and dehu wires, not for the actual dehu fan right.also pahpahcee if you have the dehu fan inside does it also need a drain pipe?
So does that mean the fan comes on inside and pushes the wet air out the outlet fan built into the fridge?
And if you prefer not to open up a dehu you can just put it straight in and drain daily?
I'm gonna purchase a wine fridge and try but need to understand fully first.
So 1 hole drilled total. You feed the probe through it inside the fridge and the Dehum power cable feeds outside of the fridge to plug into the controller.
Disassemble the probe to make it smaller. Two ways about it:
Or just unscrew the back of the controller housing and you can disconnect the probe from that side.
No drain pipe needed. All thermoelectric fridges have a little drain port in the bottom back of the unit. You just sit the Dehum ontop and it’ll drain out no problem. If you look at the back of these fridges you can see indentations and groves where water will funnel down to the drain.
You can just collect the water in the Dehum. It probably would only need to be emptied once or twice before you were done drying. The problem is space. If the Dehum is too tall then the shelves won’t fit.
The fridge peltier fan never stops spinning. This is your work horse. It does 90% of the moisture removal. The Dehum is really more about adding heat and steering the RH into the right direction.
So the procedure is:
1) Load the fridge with fresh nug
2) wait 24 hours for the RH to stabilize in the fridge. Record the RH.
3) turn on your inkbird controller so the Dehum drops the RH by 0.5 or so.
3) have the Dehum turn off before it raises the temperature to an undesirable temp.
4) temperature is back within your range and start steering your RH back down.
5) stop dropping RH once you hit 62%
6) grove bag it or leave it in the fridge until your ready.
All the people I talk to doing this have great results. Now, we all are dropping RH and adjusting temperatures a bit differently because we’re making it up as we go. The above directions work great for me. I tend to drop 0.5% RH a day, maintaining 58degrees F. Then after two weeks it’s usually ready to go into bags.