So the deal is that I have this in-wall Venmar apartment ventilator. I plug it in and turn it on and it draws electricity, all while making a small whoosh sound. I have not figured out whether it does anything useful or not, so I’ve been keeping it unplugged. But, its damn hot and humid and yucky in here and I’d like to know if this thing will help move the air.
Does anyone have one of these and do you know how to use the controls? I’m sorry that I cannot be more specific, but there is nothing on the front, back, side, top, bottom, or inside, that indicates what model it is and I cannot find anything like it on the internet.
The best that I can do is a picture or two:
Click on the images to make them bigger. Sorry about the night webcam shot.
It looks like a dehumidifier. If it is, you have leave it on a long time before it draws the humidity out of the apartment.
Did you try http://www.venmar.ca/
Yes. Its not got anything that even remotely resembles it. None of the models on the site even come close. They don’t even seem to have enclosures.
A dehumidifier was the first thing that went through my mind too. And as the
dampness in my rugs can attest, it is getting humid. I actually have a dehumidifier with wheels in my room that stands on the floor, but it heats
up the room as a byproduct of taking water out of it. I wonder if your model
Corey spits the heat outside which makes more sense!
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_conditioning
“Some air conditioning units dry the air without cooling it, and are better classified as dehumidifiers. They work like a normal air conditioner, except that a heat exchanger is placed between the intake and exhaust. In combination with convection fans they achieve a similar level of comfort as an air cooler in humid tropical climates, but only consume about a third of the electricity. They are also preferred by those who find the draft created by air coolers discomforting.”
So that is my best guess. Try it and see if the humidity bites the dust.
That my friend is an Air to Air Heat exchanger. My folks had one to help with condensation on the windows in the winter time.
So do you recommend that I leave it run? Is the low rumble (its not really bad at all, really) worth what comfort it will bring? Since you live across town, you know how drippy humid it is right now. Folks, its 84% humidity right now and its not raining (add 10°C and you have RT’s climate).
Heh, it’s ALWAYS drippy humid here! I’ll be getting an AC unit to cool the house down when the wife returns from the U.S. In the meantime, I just use a standing, oscillating fan to cool off with. I’m pretty much used to the humidity until the temperature gets too high.
It’ll help with the humidity, but it won’t actually cool the place down a whole lot because it’s just drawing the fresh air in from outside and basically makes it so it matches the air inside. Since it’s scorching hot outside …. well you get the picture.
It basically refreshes the air and also deionizes it. It brings in clean air and sucks out the bad.
It’s not an air conditioner, and it’s not a de-humidifier.
Google it. I’m sure you’ll find something.
I googled it for more than 2 hours. Nothing. I don’t care. Its appears that its a device to consume expensive electricity, so I’ve unplugged it again. My new landlord wants to install a patio dorr on the front anyhow, so I’ll have air flow soon enough.
Mom and Dad removed it when they saw glowing red coming from inside. I guess it’s got to warm the winter air somehow, but I don’t blame them. I’d be a bit worried about it too.
I can sorta see your face in the right maple leaf btw.
heh. You noticed.
Do you realize that the humidity can reach up to 90% where I live around summer time?
Yuck! With the way that I’ve been breathing lately (last summer and this summer when its humid), I don’t know if I could handle that climate. Although we have a reasonably safe climate here and the human nastiness is kept to a low, all the pollution from the midwestern part of North America falls on us, so I think that its a given that I’m becoming asthmatic. I am in denial, though.