20 Most Recent Kenmore 30-pint Dehumidifier with Electronic Controls - Page 3 Questions & Answers

straight from sears there site has great PDF file's for manuals for all there stuff !!

30 pint

ck your settings on control panel , lots of times they set the set point high at factory so it wont turn its self on to remove water . also ck your rooms available humidity level sometimes there's not enough water in air for one to remove much

counts down from what to where ? or is it your seeing the humistat showing you the rooms air humidity is going down ?

bucket is full or not seated well inside machine

ck to see that bucket is installed all the way back inside cabinet , they sometimes hook the bucket presents switch together with the full switch

if your talking about a humidifier that's connected to a hvac system , there are two basic types , one uses a wheel similar to one a small pet rodent would exercise its self on , but this one is covered with a mesh that holds water, and a motor not a rodent turns it , fresh water is maintained in a dish in bottom of unit by a level activated valve ,it's activated in two methods one by airflow switch (paddle) and another by being connected to blower motor of air handler(electrically) the other type is nozzle type , these need to be mounted in long straight runs of main duct work not more than ten feet from furnace (heat) these simply have a air flow switch that opens a valve to let house water into nozzle in duct , much smaller than 1st version unit

hold down on down arrow on control panel ?

ck the water catch bucket , sometimes ive seen machines stop after running a few minutes because it shook catch bucket from its perch

could the water catch bucket not be seated correctly ?

if frost is building up on coil face with it running 24 hrs or more , then id say yes it's low on a gas charge

signs of frost on your machine is an indicator that (1) there's not enough air flow over coils and (2) there has occurred a leak in your system and some or all of the gas has escaped out to the atmosphere number 1 usually causes number 2 due to increase in heat unplug for 48 hrs then try it again if no joy then you'll need to replace it