MIDEA MAD50P1AWS Energy Star Dehumidifier 70 Pint with Pump, Reusable Filter, Ideal for Removing Moisture for basements, bedroom, bathroom, with bucket of 1.6 gallon, New 50 Pint-2019 DOE, pump-2019

If you have issues with humidity, don’t even add it to your cart, just hit buy now. There is no question that this was the right purchase for our needs and has gone way beyond what I could have hoped for. I live in a humid area and I would assume that I’m just physically acclimated to high levels of humidity, so I didn’t realize that it was a problem until I needed to control it in my grow tent in the basement. My basement is partially finished and while the grow area is in the unfinished area, our basement has never felt thick or had any musty smell, it’s just like the upstairs in terms of air quality. We do have a TON of windows upstairs, most of which need replaced, along with a high ceiling and skylights, so temperature control has been a problem in some areas of the house. However, replacing 19 windows of multiple different sizes, is going to be quite costly. So I bought a pack of 8 little humidity/temp meters and I realized that the humidity in the house was 60% at the lowest and up to 87% in others, and my new clones that were starting to flower needed 45-55%, I started to scramble. First we tried baking soda until I could get another solution. This was as if I had spit into the wind, but somehow it made me feel like I was doing something. Then came the hanging bags. Did they collect water? Sure. Not very quickly, but I’d hang 5 bags in the tent and it would be several days before I took them out because they were half full, but it didn’t seem to be collecting any more. The humidity didn’t budge more than a couple of percentages now, but it seemed to maintain high 60’s, so I needed something else. At this point the plants were still doing well, but we maintained a steady flow of air to try to avoid any mold. I bought a different dehumidifier that was supposed to cover something like a 1,500 sq/ft area. $70. I only needed to decrease the humidity in a 4x4 tent and it had decent reviews, so I gave it a shot. This was in the tent and moved around several times over about 3 weeks, and the small water reservoir didn’t fill up once, it was just giving me about 100-200 mLs/day. I don’t know what to expect otherwise, so I let it continue for awhile, but in that time the humidity would only drop below 60% when the lights were on. So I bought a box of 24 water collecting bucket type things that had fantastic reviews, and set a bunch out to try to help the dehumidifier. Nothing. But there was significantly more of the little white pebbles than there had been in the bags, so I thought that it was just going to take longer to make its way down to the water reservoir, but nah. Absolutely useless and a massive waste of money. I’m getting very close to harvest and I’m starting to panic. All of this time and work and money, only to screw up in the drying phase. So I read several articles and reviews about the best type to look for and the tips that I saw over and over. One being to get one with a pump. I’ll be honest, I had the general idea, but I just took the advice blindly and didn’t care why I needed it. The other main one was to get one that’s supposed to cover at least double the square footage of the space that you want. I’m thinking the basement, which is about 800 sq/ft. But that’s what I was thinking with the first one and it failed me, so let’s go bigger. Let’s try double the entire house, this way I know for certain that it’s doing what I need it to. Think buying a riding lawnmower for your 100 sq/ft lawn. Yeah baby. The unit is supposed to cover 4,500 sq/ft and between the 3 levels (basement, main, 1/2 story) there’s about 2,100 sq/ft, however, it was going to be in the very back corner of the basement in a walled off area, so I wasn’t hoping for much beyond that area, because to me the humidity isn’t noticeable. I’m going to make it very clear that I only care about my plants, lol. There’s a rich looking chick that left a video of her emptying the water reservoir, and that water Just. Kept. Coming. Absolutely huge reservoir and this lady and several others, said that they empty this beast several times a day. So you’re telling me you live on a beach and never close the windows? Geez, no way would that be me, and I was starting to have an intense distrust of the damn reviews. But for some reason, the rich blonde chick really stuck in my mind, and I decided to give it a go. This unit is large. It’s about the size of a window air conditioner, but sits on the floor. It was a little heavy to get it out of the box, but once it’s upright, it’s on wheels. There wasn’t any assembly per say, you just have to pop the cord holder on. Super easy to use, just plug it into an appropriate outlet, hit start, and you’re up and running. Problem solved almost instantly guys. We had just started upping the water and flushing the plants, so the humidity in that area had risen to 87% when I started it. Spending the money on this was an act of desperation and it has paid off BIG time. I had plugged it in and started it around 3am and when my SO got home at around 2pm, the machine was off and the reservoir full. I still haven’t set up the app, so after I do that I can actually keep track of how quickly it fills up, but what we’ve experienced so far is dumping the reservoir about 3 times a day, which would likely be more frequently if I paid more attention to it, and once we decide to set it up with the pump option, we won’t have to worry about it shutting off, it will flip to the pump automatically and drain elsewhere. At this point though, we’ve actually had to turn the unit off during the day sometimes because the humidity is virtually sucked out of the air completely, like when they sucked the air out of Druidia with a giant vacuum cleaner in Space Balls. We are maintaining around 45% before we turn it off for a few hours because that’s as low as we want to go for the plants. The unexpected result is that the rest of the house has also benefited significantly despite the unit being back in a basement corner, quietly pumping away. We are in a massive heat wave right now, and my house feels better than it has in probably ever. I’ve been using it for 1 1/2 weeks so far, so hopefully it lasts for a couple of years. I also love that it has a washable filter because lord knows I don’t need another expensive filter to buy. Anyway, 5 stars, 10 times over. Don’t hesitate, it’s just what you need.

I purchased this for several reasons. First was for wifi connectivity and controls. I found the setup incredibly easy and the app very intuitive and easy to use. Second was its quiet rating. My previous dehumidifier from Frigidaire was extremely noisy. I can attest first hand that this dehumidifier, particularly on low fan setting is very quiet. Third was its size/coverage . I have 2000 sq ft area and this worked extremely well in that space. So why the 3 out of 5. Well the 4th but perhaps most important feature was its pump to have it automatically empty when full. As seen in many reviews, I thought I'd chance it but unfortunately this dehumidifier leaked. A lot. not just a drip or two but seemed like 1/3 of the water pumped landed on the floor. Called their customer support. Explained I received it new from Amazon on Friday. Ran great. Used pump on Sat. leaked. Contacted Support on Monday regarding leak (noticed the pump connector was not attached/broken away from the outer casing of the dehumidifier and perhaps that was the cause) They made me wait about 5 mins and then came back with boilerplate answers. - Did I try turning it off/on again? (Did error out or not operate, not sure power cycle will solve leaky pump) - Did I try to clean the filter? (Again, BRAND NEW, and filter may prevent efficiency or effectiveness of dehumidifying but certain doesn't impact whether or not the pump leaks) Regardless after 15 mins of silly questions, I decided to box and return to Amazon and search for a different manufacturer. So contrary to online posts, customer support wasn't a pleasant or helpful experience (for me anyway) and the pump leaks. This shows up on many reviews and if Midea fixes the leaking pump issue, they have a great product but a device that removes moisture from the air to only dump it on my floor isn't a very good product.

seams to work well in a humid Florida environment. Just wish it had come with a longer hose to be able to reach one of my drains.

Pump broke after around 6 months of use in my basement. Contacted support to request a refund which after a few hoops they approved and promised in ~1 month. 3 months go by without refund check so I contact them and they say it was cancelled and they'd send a new one in ~1 month. 2 months go by and still no refund check. Will update if they ever actually send it but at best that would bump them up to 3 stars. Buyer Beware! Other notes: it tends to toggle on/off a lot when it is working which to me indicates they don't have the thresholds programmed very well so it probably wastes more power than it needs to. It's also fairly loud. Edit: I did eventually get the refund for the full amount after pestering them again. Revising to 3 stars.

GREAT PRODUCT!