Midea Cube 20 Pint Dehumidifier for Basement, Up to 1,500 Sq. Ft. dehumidifier with drain hose, ENERGY STAR Certificated, Smart Control, Compatible with Alexa, White

This 50 pint unit is a wonderful product! I live in south Louisiana and this item pulls two to four gallons of water a day out of the air! Without it, my a/c unit cannot handle the volume of water passing through and shuts down. Together, this unit and my A/C work great and I think I want to get another smaller one of these for a sunroom. I have had this unit for just at 3 years and would not want to go though these incredibly hot summers without it! Do yourself a favor if you are having drain issues with your A/C and get this unit. It is also Energy Star which means lower costs. Also your A/C will run less to get to temperature with it.

I don't know about durability, having just bought it. Trying to set it up out of the bucket, I couldn't get it going, but an on line video helped me set it up sitting on top of the bucket with continuous outflow--no need to empty the bucket of water. It worked fast, getting the humidity down to set levels. The drain hose that was included was much too short to reach my sump pump hole, but buying a longer hose at a hardware store was easy.

First, I'm not sure what misleading marketing goes into "4,500 sqft", but if you think this can dehumidify you're entire house, it won't. It can struggle to keep up on my 600sqft basement (which gets pretty humid and to be fair I use this one as opposed to two of a different model with better results).Energy Usage: Range: 525w high with about a 40w low when it's just the fan. The fan is only 10-15w difference between high and low so always run on high. The condenser is usually running about 480w but there are fluctuations from 525 down to 470w. Currently it's running in my crawl space (I'll save you the story but in my case it's less dumb to do than it sounds), which is always humid and running almost non-stop. The daily energy usage is running between 11-12kwh. That's about 345kwh a month or at 15 cents a kwh about $52 a month. It is more energy efficient than the two smaller brands I used and more effective with a larger range.Noise: It's got some noise to it. Not something you'd want running the office or the same room as you for long. It's about 66 decibels.A review I found claimed the CFM was 430, so good air movement when compared to competitors and I can vouch that this has a lot of intake areas and a large output area at the top.Note: Your humidity level will determine how frequently it runs. You can manually have it run all the time or cycle on and off when it reaches a certain humidity point. The lower you want to maintain the space, the harder the machine will work.All the reviews I found on this said it was energy efficient with most not identifying what the energy usage was. High end of the range is 525w number and with other similar models about 600w. I found that it generally ran about 480w with the condenser and the fan only was about 45w.The top section and bottom section are not connected. This is annoying when trying to lift and move the unit. You need to move each section individually or be in a space where you're only rolling it. The wheels work fine on concrete.The pump has worked fine for me. I've had issues with other models that the pumps don't really work and I have to manually empty. The pumps simply slow the filling. I haven't noticed that issue yet with the Midea, but I did find more water than I expected when I transitioned it into the crawlspace.The app has worked fairly well. They moved to a newer app and it's worse than the previous one, but I like to be able to check on the humidity and operate remotely. I also have a temperature/humidity sensor in the crawlspace to double check the unit as well as to tell me the humidity further away from the unit. The Midea Cube 50 pint with pump (that's a mouthful) is doing fairly well.Do I recommend? I'm going with yes. My one star removal is due to the 4500 sqft number that is not remotely accurate as a lay person would understand it. I think it might have some meaning in the dehumidifier world, but if I'm looking to size a tool for my space, I need numbers I can rely on and that number isn't it. Also I knock off for it being in two pieces that don't lock together because going up and down stairs is annoying (did some caulking work in the bathrooms and needed to dry it out). The real world square footage is more 600sqft for a humid basement in Buffalo, NY in the summer.. And that is probably the upper limit. During the summer my humidity was about 45 and I had to set it to 35 to get it there. (keep in mind that outside was 90% humidity, so it is better than it might sound). This is not industrial strength, but it's the step right before. It's not cheap to run if you have a lot of humidity, but it's cheaper than other units it's sized (per reviews I read).I hope all this helps.

I started setting up the Midea Cube 50 pint dehumidifier with pump a few days ago. Since then, I've spent over 1 1/2 hours with Midea reps trying to get the pump to work. The written pump instructions are incomplete, incorrect, and misleading, and don’t allow you to set up the pump so it will work. (Note that my one-star rating is only because of the pump, my reason for buying this unit).The second Midea rep (Kiarra) acknowledged that the written instructions are wrong (specifically, 2nd bullet point under “pump draining”, which applies only to continuous drain mode where no pump is needed). Besides that, the diagram for the pump indicator is wrong (pump indicator is actually on the bottom left of LED display); the instruction booklet’s diagram of the instruction panel doesn't show important words "(pump 3s)" underneath the "Fill Level" button. Furthermore, the need to hold the “Fill Level” button for 3 seconds to make the pump work is not mentioned anywhere in the written instructions. After putting me on hold, Kiarra had me try that – and then I noticed the wording. Holding down the “Fill Level” button for 3 seconds didn’t cause the pump image to appear. The written instructions said to hold the up and down arrow buttons for three seconds to activate the pump. I had tried that several times, including a couple of times with the first Midea rep and more times with Kiarra.While still in the chat, I decided to try something else, just on a whim. I unplugged the unit, waited a minute, plugged it back, and then pressed three buttons at the same time – the two up and down arrows and the “Fill Level” buttons. The pump image appeared. I thought my problems were solved and that the pump would now work. I asked Kiarra to tell the other Midea customer service reps about this. I told her I thought it was unfair of Midea to give its reps incomplete/wrong instructions because it made their jobs harder.It wasn’t a happy ending, though. The fact that the pump image appeared did not mean that the pump was working. I even left the unit running all night, hoping that maybe the pump would work if it were submerged in water. But it didn’t. So I dumped out the couple of gallons of water that had collected overnight and am letting it dry to return it.I really wanted the Midea Cube 50 pint dehumidifier with pump to work. I have another Midea dehumidifier with a bucket and it’s been great. I wanted a dehumidifier with a pump so I didn’t have to keep emptying the bucket. I was counting on Midea quality and am quite disappointed that the pump on the Midea cube model with pump simply doesn’t work I didn’t want to have to return the unit. It’s heavy to handle (over 40 lbs.) and getting it back in the box isn’t going to be easy. Rats!

We’ve tried cheaper models before, but this one actually works—our basement feels fresher, and my husband’s sneezing fits (goodbye, mold spores!) have practically stopped. It's also easy to move around with low noise level. Worth every penny for a healthier home.

Great product, you can remove the base making it much smaller if you are using the drain hose. Quiet and efficient, plus it remembers it's settings when the power goes out and comes back on where it was set before.