[rwest]

I have an older house and the water table is very high in the neighborhood; my sump pump runs more than once a minute in the rainy season and keeps going long after snow is on the ground.

After dealing with replacing those portable wood grain units every couple years, I bought an Aprilare unit many, many years ago, I bet going on 15 years now and only had to replace the on/off switch.

Since the basement is really the only humid area even when I run the AC, I just hung the thing on Unistrut from the ceiling and didn’t hook it up to the HVAC system. I did partially block the intake to simulate duct load on it. I just run the drain into a bucket because I want to know how much moisture I’m removing.

It works so well, that I can get nose bleeds in the summer if I’m not careful- turning myself into beef jerky!