Honey dehumidifiers/driers

[bignikki]

Would this do the trick inside an old freezer?

Home Dehumidifier & Air Purifier Portable Auto-Off Function, Tank Cap is 500ML | eBay

Put one of these inside a stack of supers with uncapped honey, or rather frames that have not been capped, and it will reduce the water content quite quickly.

 

[Michael Palmer]

A bit off the subject but it is only in the last maybe ten years that I have had problems with high water content. Before that it was never an issue! Do you think that maybe the crops that bees go on now have higher water content in the nectar, maybe like borage, whereas these were much rarer crops a few years ago? Just wondered.

Is the flow lasting longer so it’s not ripe by normal harvest date?

 

[enrico]

Is the flow lasting longer so it’s not ripe by normal harvest date?

Not noticed but it might be!

 

[Amari]

Anyone use them? any advice on brands / where to source? Make your own?

https://beekeepingforum.co.uk/threa...ant-any-chemists-out-there.43370/#post-651221

 

[mbc]

Dani, can you share a bit more about this please. I would like a bit of kit that can keep heather honey supers warm before extracting. Can’t justify a large warming cabinet and don’t have the diy skills to build one.
Looking on line this super heater takes just one super, does it warm quickly? Just wondering if it would be suitable for a stack of 10 supers to process (warming one at a time). Or is it designed more for addressing crystallised combs?

You can stack supers but iirc the lead for the temperature probe will only reach up to the seventh super

 

[deemann1]

This year i used a commercial dehumidifier in a small room with all my heather supers stacked with 2x2 between supers it dropped the moisture content from 22 % to 18 % alot of my supers were uncapped

 

[elainemary]

You can stack supers but iirc the lead for the temperature probe will only reach up to the seventh super

Thanks that’s useful to know

 

[Hachi]

Do share, Ian
I'd love to see what you've done

Will do Dani I'm looking at designs and have located a guy who can and will weld S/S.

 

[FlySwat]

Would this do the trick inside an old freezer?

Home Dehumidifier & Air Purifier Portable Auto-Off Function, Tank Cap is 500ML | eBay

I reckon it would. That was my thinking. You could even add a 15w lamp to lift the temp a little.

 

[Newbeeneil]

I reckon it would. That was my thinking. You could even add a 15w lamp to lift the temp a little.

I bought one of these that I put in my honey 4 bucket warmer. If trying to reduce the moisture content I leave the buckets open and keep the temp at 35. The moisture content normally reduses from 20 to about 18 in 3-4 days but I never seem to get much water in the water collector so I'm not convince the dehumidifier is working that well.

 

[bobba]

I use one of these in my extraction room, it pulls a lot of water from the air (at least 10l per day in my room) wich helps prevent honey adsorbing moisture from the air when extracting.

https://www.meacodehumidifiers.co.u... Litres - FREE 3 Year Warranty *5060216550114
It also has the bonus of throwing out a lot of heat, so heats and drys my extraction room.

My moisture contents were on average about 2% lower this year after using the dehumidifier. So I will keep using when extracting and see how it goes.

I planned to use a big box with dehumidifier and fan if I had any honey that was too moist, but all was ok this year.

 

[oliver90owner]

I use one of these in my extraction room, it pulls a lot of water from the air (at least 10l per day in my room) wich helps prevent honey adsorbing moisture from the air when extracting.

https://www.meacodehumidifiers.co.u... Litres - FREE 3 Year Warranty *5060216550114
It also has the bonus of throwing out a lot of heat, so heats and drys my extraction room.

My moisture contents were on average about 2% lower this year after using the dehumidifier. So I will keep using when extracting and see how it goes.

I planned to use a big box with dehumidifier and fan if I had any honey that was too moist, but all was ok this year.

I use meaco DD8Ls for dehumidifying - but not for honey. Glad to see they now offer a 3 year warranty - they must be better than their earlier efforts.

I have three, two operational and one awaiting repair or as a spare. They are usually easily repaired - but I am dismantling one again, today, as it ain’t working properly.

Using them when not necessary is a waste of time, effort, electricity and honey (volume).

 

[bobba]

I use meaco DD8Ls for dehumidifying - but not for honey. Glad to see they now offer a 3 year warranty - they must be better than their earlier efforts.

I have three, two operational and one awaiting repair or as a spare. They are usually easily repaired - but I am dismantling one again, today, as it ain’t working properly.

Using them when not necessary is a waste of time, effort, electricity and honey (volume).

They do gobble electricity if running consistently in a humid environment. But I you use instead of a heater the cost is offset. Also if you set it to say 50% RH, the humidifier will turn off when the room is dry enough. So if you done keep letting more humidity in it wont keep running.

I would not worry about honey volume loss, from using a dehumidifier.

I am tight on space in my house so have to extract in my consevetory. The miss keeps plnts in the consevetory, so once I shut all the windows to keep the bees out it gets quite humid in there, so for me I think it helps alot.

This year it was rain and drizzle outside too when I was extracting, so RH was about 80% outside. So the de-humidifier did a grand job of fighting the humid air from outside and humidity from the plants.

I have found the meaco 12L to be very good, I did a lot of reading about various models and meaco have had some duds in the past, but from what I read the 12L was a apparently a gem.

I have not used it a huge amount so cannot commet on long term performance, but have seen it pull over 10L per day in the right environment and compared to other makes it has a low power consumption..

 

[SumpNut]

It is an older model and may not be available anymore, but I own a Delongi DEM10 dehumidifier and can personally vouch for its build quality. It has had a tough life over the last 10 years (particularly when deployed to run continuously in damp basements etc) and is still going strong.