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smol fren. 🤏
Been a bit over 2 months using this new heat pump condensing/ventless dryer. Uses less than half the energy, takes 3x longer - but honestly that hasn't been an inconvenience. It's fine if drying takes longer. It's usually started at night and done by morning, or started before going to work. Filter maintenance is a little obsessive, but it's just so much fun observing the water tank collecting all the "wetness" out of the clothes (I dump it into washer). #sustainability #energy
Dec 24, 2022 at 12:12amWeb
Show threadFalconFour has movedDec 24, 2022
added bonus: not blasting clothes with a furnace of literally fire-hot air has the added side benefit of being gentler on clothes; not needing to worry about drying temperature, etc. Clothes dried by recirculating warm, dried air and then condensing the moisture back out with a cooling coil (like moisture on a cold drink cup) then heating back up with that returned heat, all in a closed loop. Extraordinarily clever setup.
Show threadFalconFour has movedMar 5, 2023

Maybe useful for part 2,
@TechConnectify ? 😄 ☝️
Around 5 months in now with a house of 4 using it regularly. Would be awesome to share experience. Uses 1/8 the energy (600w) of my previous dryer (5000w), needs no outside vent, and just takes 3x the time and extra filter cleaning.

Always entertaining to pull out the water tank and dump it into the washer to drain. I could just connect the drain pipe to the drain instead of the tank but I find the water-dumping quite amusing.

Show threadFalconFour has movedMar 5, 2023

@TechConnectify I paid $150 for it new on craigslist lol

It's definitely a tech that manufacturers seem to be hiding/not wanting to promote -- like portable heat pump units (also which I have/use/love).

Show threadMike DDec 24, 2022

@falconfour Makes me miss Los Angeles. A clothes line dried faster than my apartment sized dryer.

In the SF Bay Area it takes a little longer and is almost useless at this time of year.

Show threadFalconFour has movedDec 24, 2022
@md greetings from Campbell/San Jose 👋👍 Yeah, winter makes line drying pretty impossible. But even in summer, it's a bit impractical: hate spending that much time messing with clothes, and they come out stiff and scratchy. Dryers are the norm - may as well use more efficient dryers! 😄
Show threadMike DDec 24, 2022

@falconfour
I don't mind line dried clothing.

My ex-MIL ONLY line dried her clothing. :)