@3dprinting The FilaBilly is a nifty system that fills a BILLY bookcase with parallel rods for filament spools. I'm adding doors to it and am going to try, with weatherstrip and caulk, to make it kinda sort airtight.

https://www.printables.com/model/660713-filabilly-filament-rack

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@3dprinting The dehumidifier will be based on this design by Ben Krejci. (Is Ben on the Fediverse?)

https://www.benkrejci.com/post/dehumidifier

Unfortunately, it uses a CPU cooler that is no longer in production. I am redesigning the housing now to fit a Noctua NH-U9S cooler.

https://noctua.at/en/nh-u9s

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@neuron
Looks very cool indeed 😀

- wondering though, about speed of dehumidification vs rate of opening the door to all spools.
- my little dehumidifier that I alread have uses 35W constantly and I consider that too much 😅. I would rather do it with a MDL-3 solid state dehumidifier.
- Curious to read how the Billy is being made airtight.
- I already have 25%-30% humidity and it's still a problem somehow.
- some Spools arrive with moisture so deep inside I can't seem to dry it out.

@xro To quote the article

"I've never been able to get an airtight tub full of filament below 25% humidity with beads alone
They are slow, especially if you need to dry out wet filament"

So I think that's the problem. You are not getting below 25%

@neuron
Maybe.

That's not how I store my filament thought. This is:

My filament only prints from inside the Filament Dryer... Then goes straight back into a bag while still warm. Then add silica gel, freshly regenerated from the microwave (and weighted, so we know moisture was removed). Finally the bag is sealed and air is removed with a vacuum pump.

The problem may be, that some of the bags have tiny holes and let air back in over a week. 🤷