Dehumidifier/Rain Cloud

[Troy Valentine]

Is it possible to us a dehumidifier for top off water? Does anyone have any experience with the purity of the water from the dehumidifer? Or if the filers these come with will filter out any contaminants that are present in the air.(Air freshners,Lysol, smoke)
I am evaporating about 5 gallons a day, and the house has become a lot more humid. Why not create an artificial rain cloud to draw the moisture in, and put it were it belongs; back in the tank....

Any Ideas?

[::pete::]

They dont only take the moisture out of the air, but all the pollutants too !!

[Troy Valentine]

That is what I was concerned of. But how effective are the filters these come with. Maybe hook up an RO/DI unit to it.

[JimD]

That is what I was concerned of. But how effective are the filters these come with. Maybe hook up an RO/DI unit to it.

That might work, youd have to hook up a pressure pump to the RO/DI, seems like a lot of expense for five gallons of water, Id just use it to water the plants er sumpfin.. lol

[::pete::]

That is what I was concerned of. But how effective are the filters these come with. Maybe hook up an RO/DI unit to it.

Well they arent ment to filter the water so Id say not good. Also look at the coil, is it copper?

[Troy Valentine]

How much of a problem would the copper pipes cause to your reef. I have seen people use tap water in their reef, and the copper pipes don't seem to effect the reef, its all of the other 200ppm of stuff that does, I have seen some beautiful reefs run on tap water.... I have seen dehumidifier drinking water systems. I wonder what the TDS are in the water.

[captexas]

Sounds like you have an experiment to do Troy! lol. My living room was getting really humid with my 75g and all the lighting I had. Then when I put a fan on the sump, I just had more evaporation. Even with the ceiling fan constantly on low you would notice it when you walked in the room. I got a chiller for the tank so my evaporation has really dropped. But now I think the heat from the chiller is almost worse! I'm going to move the tank once I get my 240 in and set it up so I am going to look at putting the chiller in the laundry room or out in the garage.

As far as the water that a dehumidifer collects, it's filtering out the air that is around it, therefore collecting all the dust and other junk blowing around in the air. The water's quality would really depend on what kind of air filter it had. I would still run it through some kind of RO/DI filter and like JimD stated, it would need a pressure pump for the filters to work properly. This makes it all very expensive.

Also, just like the water you put in your tank, it's not necessarily how many TDS (ppm) you have, it's what those TDS actually are that have an affect on things.