Anyone own one of these dehumidifiers?
I bought one Saturday and have a few questions.
Having just had my Amsec BF6636 installed in my home this past Friday I left the safe door open all night long to allow the gun safes interior to equalize to my homes temperature and humidity level.
On my old Amsec I used a couple of fairly large dessicant bags inside the safe and have never had humidity issues and my digital hygrometer indicates the humidity level generally in the high 50 percent to lower 60 per cent range so the bags coupled with modern central air and heat in a home obviously were working.
Anyway I bought because it can supposedly be monitored by the little window that changes color and last according to Remington the unit should last about ten years.
The unit is sealed in plastic wrap I suppose so it does not gather humidity before it is to be used.
However mine was not blue in color(it was quite brown) and the instructions were somewhat vague about this.
So I plugged it in the wall outlet and sure enough the next morning the color window was showing bright blue indicating it was fully charged.
I probably had been charging it 10 hours or so.
One of my questions is did yours have to be charged before usage?
After a few hours of charging I was thinking mine was defective because there had not been any change to the color so i have to think perhaps mine had sat on the shelf a long time and possibly lost it's charge.
The instructions mention absolutely nothing of having to precharge the device.
The instructions say the charge should last 30-60 days,so for those of you that use one has this been your example?
Anyway I thought some of you may have something to say about this product.
I bought one Saturday and have a few questions.
Having just had my Amsec BF6636 installed in my home this past Friday I left the safe door open all night long to allow the gun safes interior to equalize to my homes temperature and humidity level.
On my old Amsec I used a couple of fairly large dessicant bags inside the safe and have never had humidity issues and my digital hygrometer indicates the humidity level generally in the high 50 percent to lower 60 per cent range so the bags coupled with modern central air and heat in a home obviously were working.
Anyway I bought because it can supposedly be monitored by the little window that changes color and last according to Remington the unit should last about ten years.
The unit is sealed in plastic wrap I suppose so it does not gather humidity before it is to be used.
However mine was not blue in color(it was quite brown) and the instructions were somewhat vague about this.
So I plugged it in the wall outlet and sure enough the next morning the color window was showing bright blue indicating it was fully charged.
I probably had been charging it 10 hours or so.
One of my questions is did yours have to be charged before usage?
After a few hours of charging I was thinking mine was defective because there had not been any change to the color so i have to think perhaps mine had sat on the shelf a long time and possibly lost it's charge.
The instructions mention absolutely nothing of having to precharge the device.
The instructions say the charge should last 30-60 days,so for those of you that use one has this been your example?
Anyway I thought some of you may have something to say about this product.
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