I know you just copied the youtube title, but the title is obnoxiously pretentious.
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I don’t have information specific to midea, so there is some speculation, but I do have a ge unit which does outright say that the water condensate is slung across the condenser coil to boost efficiency. And yes, my ge unit got really nasty and I ended up drilling a hole in the base of the condensate pan to drain all the water.
https://products.geappliances.com/appliance/gea-support-search-content?contentId=16758
Heat pump efficiency is limited by the temperature delta across the compressor. The larger the temperature delta, the less efficient a heat pump is. Evaporating water off the condenser coil drops the refrigerant temperature compared to air only and gives a small boost to efficiency. I don’t think it’s a big difference, but it’s enough to be worthwhile doing if you can “get it for free.” Unfortunately, a constantly cool and wet pool is a great breeding ground for mold and pathogens that you don’t want airborne.
As for cleaning ease, I based that off of comments (on reddit I think), recommending people push midea to pay for a technician to perform the fix because taking it apart for a thorough cleaning is a hassle. So I have no firsthand experience there and I’ll defer to your judgement.
I don’t have one of that type, so I haven’t contacted them. I was thinking about getting a unit like that, but then found out why they weren’t in stock anywhere.
I think the lack of drain was intentional so that the water wiuld splash up on the condenser coil. An AC unit generates a lot more water than a refrigerator though, so I think any design with a condensate basin below the condenser coil will have mold problems. The other issue is they didn’t make the unit very serviceable, so opening it up to clean out mold sounds like a huge hassle. Draining the water away will mean the units won’t be as efficient as originally designed, but mold can be a major health hazard.
The U shaped units manufactured by midea were all recalled and are not currently available for sale.
You might want to look up the recall and get the repair kit. They were recalled for excessive mold build up.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Technology@lemmy.world•Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable partsEnglish252·9 days agoI just leave the adapter plugged into the headphones. Then there’s nothing extra to manage.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you think its a good idea to elect the sheriff / chief of police so they could be more accountable to the people? Or do you think they should be appointed?10·10 days agoThis is an x-y problem. You are asking about methods of placement when your actual concern is methods of accountability. Choosing someone else in the next election isn’t accountability, it’s a flimsy escape mechanism. Both methods of placement won’t be able to correct for a bad actor without further protections from independent/external authority.
I like the Beko we got a few years ago. They compete well with Bosch.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•When we microwave in our house we say we're going to "zap it". What do you say?7·22 days agoThe issue is the ambuguity in what someone intends when they just say radiation. It is valid to call any electromagnetic wave radiation. However, as for health concerns, what matters is “ionizing radiation.” Microwaves are too low energy to be ionizing, so they don’t match what most people think of when they say radiation with the implication of ionizing.
Fermion@feddit.nlto News@lemmy.world•Michigan bills would require landlords to do repairs within 48 hours or renters can withhold rent8·22 days agoA short time frame is fine because the consequences for missing it is that rent is delayed until the repair is complete, or the tenant is authorized to arrange for repairs themselves and deduct the costs from the rent. Neither of those are onerous so there doesn’t need to be a long grace period.
This is also specifically for safety related repairs. It’s not like a tenant can withhold rent for a broken window screen or dripping faucet.
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Fermion@feddit.nlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•When your the big spoon how do you keep your earthward arm from falling asleep?5·25 days agoMy ribcage rests on a memory foam pillow. My head rests on a buckwheat pillow. My arm goes in the gap between the two pillows. The buckwheat pillow is easily remoldable so my arm can go underneath and find a good angle without making my head feel unstable.
Spinning the same direction but the angular velocity is higher for lower orbits so the moon orbits faster than the outer ring.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Will the motherboard in my decade old desktop pc work with any new graphics card?4·1 month agoIronically, high end cards usually only have small penalties for having a previous gen PCIe. On a full x16 lanes, there’s usually bandwidth to spare. Although you wouldn’t want to put a RTX 5090 on PCIe 3.0. It was the RX 6500 XT with its mere x4 lane count that took a significant hit running on PCIe 3.0 instead of 4.0. That was not a good limitation for that market segment since the low end is where people are most likely to try to avoid upgrading motherboards/cpus.
The trick to getting the pit off the knife is to not whack it in to begin with. Hold the knife parallel to the first cut and use the point on the back of the knife near your hand to pry the pit up. It doesn’t take much force and the pit pops right out without sticking to the knife.
Fermion@feddit.nlto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers25·2 months agoI had a neighbor who was rather compulsive about her yard. She would mow her yard/have it mowed 2-3 times a week and would use a leaf blower to push the grass clippings onto her neighbors yard every time. She would also leaf blow her roof with surprising frequency.
I gotta say, I was a little relieved when I saw the for sale sign in the yard earlier this year.
Fermion@feddit.nlto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•If my county passes a new tax for um lets say a new jail. They staff it and build it and everything with the tax money. How come it seems the tax is there forever? Why not get rid of it when built?5·2 months agoUsually that kind of thing is done through a bond measure. The increased tax isn’t enough to pay for a big project while it’s under construction. Big projects are financed by selling bonds. Those bonds need to keep being payed back well after the project is complete.
Keep it in your peripheral but don’t stare directly.
The soil type you describe is what is usually recommended. I have a lot of clay in my soil so I planted my bushes on a slope that is too steep to mow. That seems to provide enough drainage. They did have a brief fungal infection on their second year, I treated with sulfur powder and haven’t had any problems in subsequent years. A cheap pH meter says my soil is around 5, but I don’t put a lot of confidence in its measurements.
The flowers are also beautiful and have a pleasant aroma.
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Now I want more examples of a group sized thing adapted to be personal sized then reinterpreted to be group sized again.
I’m coming up blank, but I guess a similar concept would be post-it note easel pads.