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Old 06-30-10, 08:31 AM   #5
Ryland
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We live in town so we do not have a well.
turns out that our dehumidifier cycles the compressor on and off creating a load of over 500 watts! the fan, on it's lowest setting draws 55 watts and cycles on and off as well based off humidity so when I had tested the dehumidifier before it showed the lower number.
A year ago it was running almost non stop before we did two coats of DryLock paint (water proofing paint for cement walls) and epoxy paint on the floor, we still have two large crawl spaces that are open to the soil and have no insulation that we are getting bids to fix (I don't want to try to spray foam in a crawl space my self) so once that is done the moisture problem should be almost gone!
the whole house electric meter monitor is pretty nice, after a week or so I'm going to switch it to the other meter, then set it up at my parents house, then see who else in my area wants to use it.
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