Why did I post this? Look at my TEFAL chip cooker video… it has more views than any of my other videos. Plus I don’t want people wasting their cash on these things when for a little bit more they can get air conditioning! My mistake is your saving!

Nobody likes humidity! Especially when your house is full of old computers, consoles, cardboard boxes and all the other things I’ve somehow managed to accumulate over the years. So I’ve gone out and bought myself a Delonghi Tasciugo DDS30COMBI dehumidifier.

The idea is simple enough. Reduce the humidity in the house and hopefully make things a little more comfortable, while also doing something about the damp air surrounding my collection.

The humidity meter is showing around 70%, which seems rather high considering it doesn’t even feel particularly humid at the moment. I suppose that’s a good enough reason to give the new machine a try.

I’ve connected a drain hose so the water can make its way into the kitchen sink. That should save me from emptying the collection tank every few minutes. Time to switch the thing on and see what happens!

Naturally, I’ve also got a power meter connected. When I first check it, the machine is drawing around 32 W. That’s not too bad, although it isn’t necessarily doing much dehumidifying at that particular moment.

Switching modes makes the readings rather more interesting. There’s a brief reading of around 1,300 W when I try the laundry setting, before the machine later switches into its louder operating mode. With what sounds like the refrigeration system running, the meter settles around 235 W.

Ah. That’s rather more electricity than the initial reading suggested. It’s also making a fair bit of noise. Thankfully I’ve got it in the kitchen, because I don’t particularly fancy trying to sleep with the thing running beside me.

I’ll leave it going and see whether it makes a useful difference to the humidity. At least there’s a proper drain connection, so I won’t have to worry about a full tank interrupting the experiment.

After spending some time with it, however, I’m beginning to question the wisdom of the purchase. For a little more money I could have looked into an air conditioner and had cooling as well as some dehumidification.

So there you go! Another appliance purchased, another little experiment, and another reason to think more carefully before spending money on household equipment. Perhaps I’ll stick to fixing old Sega consoles. At least when they go wrong, I usually know why I bought them!