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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4863673, member: 105098&quot;]First off this is musing, it&#039;s coin chat forum, I&#039;m chatting about storage...</p><p><br /></p><p>here&#039;s the deal, I live in south florida where it&#039;s usually 40-90+% humidity on an every day basis, my central AC does quite a bit for climate control, burt we do have power outages, and even so, you can tell the A/C still has some humidity to it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Which got me thinking, My coin collection fits a 3 drawer nightstand dresser pretty packed, I was thinking to purchase a 2nd hand 5 drawer dresser of larger dimensions and modifying it with a couple small dehumidifiers on the back one corded and one that will run on batteries for when the power is out, thereby limiting the length of time the collection is exposed to humidity.</p><p><br /></p><p>A second option is to just modify a walk in closet and use a larger dehumidifier and run a similar set up with a battery powered emergency back up, but then this could include my comic books, cards, toy collections, as well as my guitars (sucks when a neck gets warped)</p><p><br /></p><p>Truth be told I don&#039;t mind toning, but I&#039;d like to slow it down to a crawl instead of a sprint. So anyways, that said, I&#039;m trying to avoid the damp rid or silica methods which need to be refilled and dumped, and looking for something more mechanical that would need to be dumped.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found this one:</p><p><font size="6">Acare Mini Dehumidifier for Closet, 2200 Cubic Feet (190 Sq ft), 32 Ounce </font>For the corded model, </p><p>unfortunately I don&#039;t like the design as it&#039;s round. That said, they aren&#039;t exceptionally expensive for larger floor models that take up to 4 gallons of water a day, those run for about $135-$150.&nbsp; but that kills the modified dresser idea and freedom of placement, and I might as well pick a closet with all cinder block walls, slap on an exterior steel firedoor with a nice lock system and have it as a collection room/safe room/safe. I feel like this is the best way to go for the overall long term solution, It will give me a 10ftx10ft space, and with the firedoor and keypad/card entry, it&#039;s gonna take a sledge or an axe to get in there, and time. but the door part won&#039;t be cheap. </p><p><br /></p><p>Any ideas for this? I&#039;m firmly against the damp rid or silica as an easy answer, long term it&#039;s costly, and I think it&#039;s messy in my situation, the 4 pound bucket of damprid is gone in my garage lets say in about a week and all liquid this is what it&#039;s like without A/C the humidity sweating and open windows.</p><p>I think with the larger dehumidifier I could dump it once a week or once a month and it will be basically dry air but you have to remove the water, or it just evaporates and recirculates.</p><p><br /></p><p>Overkill? Perhaps..... </p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, anyone else built something like this or thought to? looking for ideas/tips/pointers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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