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<blockquote data-quote="TJ Cornish" data-source="post: 48668" data-attributes="member: 162"><p>Re: Water damage... causes</p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't know much about chemistry, but dehumidifiers I can handle. Unless you go with an expensive dessicant-based system like those used in grocery store freezer aisles, you'll need the ambient temp to be north of 55F for the dehumidifier to function at all. Performance increases dramatically with increases in temperature from there.</p><p></p><p>I was working on this problem for my attached heated garage. In the Frozen Northland (TM) that I live, all the snow and slush that sticks to the car, melts off in the warm garage, creating much the same problem as the issue in question. I routinely get 5-10 gallons of water on my floor, which I get my exercise regularly sweeping out of the garage.</p><p></p><p>The most cost effective solution is to keep the ambient temp significantly above the outside air temp (20 degrees seems to be a minimum). As the warmer air leaks out of your storage area to the environment, the moist air gets exchanged with the cooler drier (drier in an absolute sense, though the humidty of the cold air outside might actually be a high percentage humidity, which drops when the air gets re-warmed in the storage area). This combined with occasionally opening the door up to speed air exchange after you suspect there's been water exposure to your gear will help a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJ Cornish, post: 48668, member: 162"] Re: Water damage... causes I don't know much about chemistry, but dehumidifiers I can handle. Unless you go with an expensive dessicant-based system like those used in grocery store freezer aisles, you'll need the ambient temp to be north of 55F for the dehumidifier to function at all. Performance increases dramatically with increases in temperature from there. I was working on this problem for my attached heated garage. In the Frozen Northland (TM) that I live, all the snow and slush that sticks to the car, melts off in the warm garage, creating much the same problem as the issue in question. I routinely get 5-10 gallons of water on my floor, which I get my exercise regularly sweeping out of the garage. The most cost effective solution is to keep the ambient temp significantly above the outside air temp (20 degrees seems to be a minimum). As the warmer air leaks out of your storage area to the environment, the moist air gets exchanged with the cooler drier (drier in an absolute sense, though the humidty of the cold air outside might actually be a high percentage humidity, which drops when the air gets re-warmed in the storage area). This combined with occasionally opening the door up to speed air exchange after you suspect there's been water exposure to your gear will help a lot. [/QUOTE]
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