I have Haier DE45EJ-L I am confused at what the setting should be. The Temperture is 68, when I put the humidity setting at 50 it shuts down, if I put it to 38 moisture is removed from the air. All the directions say is to choose a setting, I live in a basement apartment

There is a review website that claims the unit draws 590 watts. The refrigerant this one uses is R-134a.

Haier 45 Pint Dehumidifier Review

A slightly larger unit is also available from Haier, the DE65EJ that uses R-410a, which is a more efficient refrigerant and allows the unit to be perhaps 20% more efficient. That larger unit is rated for 65 pints a day, and uses 710 watts. It is a bit heavier than the DE45EJ also.

clean the dust off of the condenser in the front or the filter if it has one. no air flow results in overheating and no condensation across the evaporator coil.

The arrow down button lowers the humidity level to what you want to extract and maintain. The higher settings remove little to know humidity and maintains a higher humidity level.

If you're trying to extract a lot of humidity/condensation, lower it to 35%.

Hope this helped you & thanks for choosing FixYa

Actually, your husband is correct. The settings reflect the amount of humidity you want to remain in the house. I really don't think you want to leave 50 to 60% humidity in the house.

35% removes the greatest amount of humidity.

Hope this helped answer your question and thanks for choosing FixYa.

Hi,
There are many reasons why a dehumidifier willnot work or collect water.
Here is a tip that I wrote to help people to figure out what is going wrongwith their dehumidifier

Dehumidifier is running but no water is in bucket

heatman101

Dehumidifier (DE45EJ-L) shows only E2 on the display -- no "buttons" work. Had been working perfectly -- we turned it off a few days ago. Any suggestions??

Perfect humidity is 50% according to conventional wisdom. As far as a number to sit it on ... well you will have to refer to the owners manual.

Dont have one --- contact Haier. I found them to be very helpful, particularly when I wanted a no longer in production machine manual.

It might be that the air you are dehumidifying is already lower than you think. You could measure the humidity independently.

Hi Journeay,
The dehumidifier is telling you the humidity in your house is 45-50 % so it will not run until the dehum thinks it is over 60%. When you set a humidity it will show the setting then it will tell you the humidity in the house. Sometimes they are wrong, and somtimes the humidistat goes bad. I would suggest setting the dehumidifier lower than the 45-50 and see if it comes on. This time of year the humidity is usually low depending on your location. I have already put mine away for the winter. Please let me know if you have any other questions and I really hope this will fixYa. If not just let me know.
Mike

When you first turn on the unit it is set to 40% humidity which is the lowest the unit will accept. You can only move the up arrow from that point. The 63 you are seeing is the actual humidity. If you want 50% youo need to press up arrow till 50 is displayed. The manual for this unit is terrible. Just leave it as it is and it will attempt to bring it down to 40%. 30 to 50 is the recommended humidity range.