Midea Cube 20-Pint Smart Dehumidifier (up to 1,500 Sq Ft) Expired

I have this unit and it's great so far, quiet and efficient. I wouldn't worry about the reviews re. raising temperature in the room, those reviewers clearly don't understand how dehumidifiers work - All electrical dehumidifiers raise ambient temperature, as they do work that gets converted into heat energy. You are running a heat pump that cools down one end (where the water condenses and drips down), but of course you can't generate cold without generating heat at the same time (just think of the back of a fridge) - so you blow the air through the hot coil to warm it back up, and you end up heating the right room with the wattage that the dehumidifier draws.

If you have a particularly inefficiently designed dehumidifier, it may raise the temperature more than an efficiently designed unit - but this unit is energy star qualified in 2021, which means it's one of the most efficient dehumidifiers out there. Compared to most older dehumidifiers, this one will heat the room less.

Dehumidifiers are not ACs (though they share the same technology of compressing and decompressing a refrigerant like r134a). What those reviewers wanted was clearly an AC that moves the generated heat to the outside either by splitting it (mini split, split at the window) or blowing hot air out of a vent or window. ACs don't just cool, they also remove dehumidify, albeit less than a dehumidifier.

A dehumidifier is better at dehumidifying mostly because of the heating that occurs after air blows over the cold coil. By raising the temperature, you raise the air's capacity to take up moisture, which lowers the relative humidity.

So this unit is great for your basement to make sure you don't get mold or rusty tools, but it's not made to make living in a swamp at 110F tolerable - only an AC does that.

Vremi 50 pint is showing $96 in the cart afer an extra 20% off BF at Vremi.com with free shipping. That's half of what it is on Amazon or Walmart.