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I finally fixed this and I’m delighted with myself. Still need to do a little refinement to make sure something similar doesn’t happen again but the dehumidifier can now come out of our tiny bathroom.Our en-suite bathroom fan is really struggling to clear the moisture and we’re getting a lot of mould. Now it’s dripping water back out of the fan. I went up to the attic and found that the lads who installed it used uninsulated flexi-duct which is now absolutely full of condensed water. Cowboys Ted!
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You know it’s rude to describe electrical components on thumped with out a guts shot.I got a broken cooler box off adverts for a tenner.
my theory being either i can fix it or it's still a really well insulated box and it'll do for lugging cans about the place now and again.
anywhoo I went CSI on it this evening.
the whole thing is a 12v fan, a peltier module with a heat sink either side and a little almost analog logic board.
The fan is working fine of 12v and i'm kinda assuming the module is working fine because they supposedly do.
The logic board isn't really doing fuck all, though the relay can be activated with jumpers.
I see three options.
A: Just stick a switch on it so it's either fans+module or dead.
B: build a new logic board with some arduino leftovers so it self regulates (this is kinda what it is already)
C: try and find the logic board on ebay.
Typing them out is making me biased towards A.
The connector was gone off it when i got it, hence the new one.
There's very little too it
I'm not goin back out there today - ( i might)
So far as i can see it's got two temperature sensors chained up with a little logic board and a relay. The relay is fine so it could be a few different bits that aren't working.
The first plan is to just plug it in as is for a half hour drive and see if the logic board comes to life.
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Redid the plumbing, rebuilt the floor, re tiled.
Only two big jobs left to go.
That's beautiful.
It apparently was made by some uncle/cousin to hold altar stuff for an invalided aunt who couldn't leave the house to go to mass, so the priest used to call round to say mass in the house. 1930s might be over egging it in terms of age, but that's what I was told.
There's a strange mixture of relatively complicated woodwork done well (fingerjointing on the lid, complex angles on the side panels), combined with strangely sloppy work - (the diamond on the front is off center by about 10-15mm, one side is wider than the other so the whole thing is off square by 3-4mm, it was originally held together by un-countersunk screws that were showing proud of the original finish etc)
an old metal water tank? the likes you'd have found in an attic?
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