ducting to create flow across the area’s greatest length.
For areas with ceilings higher than 12’, use an inlet duct to draw
warm, moist air from near the ceiling. See section 5 for attaching
duct collars & ducting.
3.1C In A Remote Area, Duct Inlet & Outlet (fig. 3)
It is often desirable, especially in recreational rooms and finished
areas, to install the Santa Fe HC in an adjacent equipment room
or unfinished area. Air is transferred between the humid room
and the unit via ducting. The factory mounted humidity control on
the Santa Fe HC cabinet may not sense the humidity in the humid
room accurately enough with this installation method. If so, a
remote humidity control can be mounted in the humid room and
wired to the Santa Fe HC. Refer to the optional equipment table
in this document. Local electrical codes must be followed when
wiring the control.
3.1D In A Remote Area, Duct Outlet Only (fig. 4)
A simplified remote installation method than above uses ducting
between the Santa Fe HC discharge and the humid room; the
Santa Fe HC inlet draws airfrom the room in which it’s located.
This works well if there is an adequate air flow path between the
two rooms; e.g. high door undercut, louvered door or wall grill.
This eliminates the need to remote mount the humidity control.
WARNING!
Before installing the dehumidifier in
the manner described in section 3.1E (Fig. 6), call
the factory for specific instruction if backdraft
devices (i.e. hot water heaters) are present in the
space to be dehumidified.
3.1E In A Remote Area, Duct Inlet Only (fig. 5)
When the Santa Fe HC is located in a room separate from the
main area to be dehumidified, it may be desirable to dehumidify
and/or slightly pressurize that room. Pressurization assures that
open combustion devices do not backdraft. This can be prevented
by installing a duct from the humid room to the Santa Fe HC inlet
and by allowing the Santa Fe HC to discharge dehumidified air
into the room in which it’s located. An adequate air flow path
must exist between the two rooms for this method to work well.
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Output
Inlet
Output
Inlet
Output
Inlet
Output
Figure 2: Installation in humid area with inlet and outlet ducting
Figure 3: Installation in a remote area with ducted inlet and outlet
Figure 4: Installation in a remote area with ducted outlet only
Figure 5: Installation in a remote area with ducted inlet only
