Side by Side Comparison of: VonHaus vs Eva-Dry

I've been running this for a couple of weeks in an older building with poorly sealed windows. I have it right on a window ledge, and it's collected several cups of water so far, and I've noticed a decrease in condensation on the window. There is a slight "white noise" sound, but it's definitely quiet enough for the office environment. I sit about 5 feet away, and don't notice the sound unless I listen for it.

My husband works in Texas while we are from SC. It is very humid there, and his motel room always feel damp. This dehumidifier is small and compact, but does the job well for a motel room!

I have a small studio apartment. I needed a dehumidifier because I get a lot of water seeping through the walls into my carpet, especially during winter or rainy seasons. I bought this one for the area next to my bed and it has worked without fail for the past 6 months I think (can't remember when I bought it) I have had no problems whatsoever. It is quiet and does its job. I want to buy another one for my kitchen pantry.

We do not have an exhaust fan in one of our bathrooms and had a terrible time keeping up with the humidity and constant cleaning due to the extra moisture. This unit is small but has made a big impact on reducing the moisture in the air. I wish it had an auto shut off after a couple of hours. It's in my kid's bathroom and they are not good at turning it off themselves so I always check it before going to bed. It is not supposed to run for more than 12 hours. It is quiet enough you almost don't hear it running when you are not in the room.

Updated 2/27/2016My unit was still under warranty and a new unit was shipped to me. It arrived very quickly and is working fine.2/20/2016Stopped working after two months.I used this to dehumidify a small closet. For the first two months it worked great! Then it was no longer pulling any moisture out of the air for the past month. I figured it was due to it being winter and the air being dry since we're running the heat. So i decided to try an experiment. I put the running dehumidifier in an enclosed box with a giant pickle jar half full of water. It is very warm and humid in the box and the dehumidifier is running, it's just not doing any dehumidifying!

This works great. I actually use it in my studio. I basically just leave it on all day. Since my space is bigger than the recommended "small space size" I just rotate it room to room, but it still collects a decent amount of water.

I have cabins in Costa Rica nearby the ocean, so needless to say, we have humidity issues and these little units do their job. I tried other brands which are good too but this particular one suprised me with PLASTIC hooks that swivel. I LOVED the plastic vs the metal hooks that some brands have are stationary, others partially swivel but I would have bought them all this kind, if I knew this. Metals will oxidate with time and so plastic is the way to go and swivel to your convenience makes it practical! I wish they'd make them ALL with this feature!!!

This thing is a beast! It's like those silica gel packs on steroids.Forget recharging your dessicants in the oven, nope just plug this bad boy in! That is the only problem though, it has the plus sideways so it works best when plugged into an outlet that is sideways. Luckily I have 1 but I don't think everyone does. Though I wouldn't let that put you off. I am sure you could get it to stay in a horizontal outlet aka a normal one. The charge is about 10 hours but a little less or more isn't going to hurt anything or anyone.I use this in a safe & another in my closet. The one in the closet collects moisture much faster than the one in the safe. I do have some liquid in my closet though... don't ask! (;Pros:-Rechargeable-Good quality-Trusthworthy brand-Safe friendly-No oven needed-No harmful chemicalsCons:-Plugs in best to a vertical outlet-Can potentially leak the lil balls that suck up moisture

This is a simple passive solution to keeping my valuables dry and safe from moisture damage. Once a month, I pull the Eva-dry and plug into an outlet for 24 hours then toss it back in your safe, closet, whatever (I know it says it recharges in 8-10 hours, but that only partially recharges it). You know it's working when the enclosed area is void of mildew odors with no signs of rust on metals.

Great for keeping my small safe dry and mildew free.I live in a humid area of California and have had issues with mildew inside my small safe before. I've used other products that tend to fill with liquid and are a pain to dump.With this I check the color of the beads once a month and when it needs it, I plug it in for an evening and it is ready to work for another couple months.I like this so much I am looking at buying a couple more to put in some closets to get rid of the other systems that require liquid dumping and a kitty litter like replacement.

The little box has kept my bathroom dry for over a month now. We have an old house with only one, very small bathroom. There are 6 people in my family and the bathroom gets a lot of use. When my boys and teenage daughter would get a hot shower the entire bathroom would steam up to bad the walls would drip within a few minutes. We have a ceiling fan/light but it just wasn't enough. I wanted a dehumidifier that was compact since we don't have any extra room in our bathroom but we needed something powerful enough to do the job. This little box is both!!! It has worked great! The colors on the front panel are easy to read when it needs to be "aired out". I simply took it outside where there is an outside outlet and plugged it in for a few hours, good as new! I would highly recommend this for small, damp spaces. Right now I have it hanging out our curtain rod from a hook that's included. There are small spaces where the dehumidifier is screwed together and I might tap some small nails into the side of my bathroom storage unit and try to hang it up. GREAT product for the money!!!

A couple years ago we bought a waterproof/fireproof safe by Sentry. In order to make it waterproof they use some sort of water based insulation, I'm not sure if this is unique to Sentry or an industry practice. What happens in our safe is that everything is soggy and even my passport became warped and had some mold on the outside. I kept throwing in those silica packets that came with clothing and other items we purchased and they did not effect the moisture level inside the safe. I came across this and really didn't think I had anything to lose by trying it, the price was definitely right.When I received it, the crystals were already blue. I charged it right away and put it in the safe the next day. It's been a little more than 1 month and I have not yet seen the crystals turn pink. Everything inside the safe is nice and dry, all the paperwork feels a lot more crisp. I won't call the people who can't discern the color an blind like another reviewer. I can imagine some units may not work or people may have trouble seeing inside just like any product you buy nowadays. For me, the blue is a very dark blue. As I haven't seen the pink yet, I cannot comment on that. Although mine seems to have lasted longer than the advertised time, my papers and such are still very dry so I believe it is still working. If your item is defective, I would definitely get a replacement since I find this product to be a life saver (or a safe saver as it is, har har). Hope this helps.Edit 10/2/2013: I came back to post a picture of the pink color beads. I glanced at other reviews trying to find mine, and I'm shaking my head that people think this is for a vehicle or will take the place of an exhaust fan in your bathroom. This is a passive device, despite having a plug. It's strength is really for small places that you open and find mold or for preserving items. Anyway, still going strong here. I'll post a picture of the beads.

Good quality. Keep my room, regular size, in the right humidity zone

Bought this in the hopes of regulating a small grow tent's fluctuations. While a capable and effective humidity remover this is a device intended to prevent moisture accumulation in a small space in high RH (70%+). Great for staving off mold, mildew, and fungus. Not great as a regulator. Perfect for what it proposed in the description but not an above and beyond device.

Nice sized smaller unit, works okay, but not blown away.

As much as I want to give this product a 2 star rating, I am giving it a 4 star rating because it actually does an okay job for what it says it does and for the price. It will remove small amounts of moisture from a closet or small enclosed room with the door shut if you let it run long enough. I borrowed my cousins dehumidifier and it removed over a gallon of water from my closet in less than a day. A few days prior to that, this dehumidifier removed about 6 ounces of water over about two day period. Very weak, but yes it works. I like it better than buying one of those chemical moisture removers that you end up disposing.

The product works like it says. It is EXTREMELY quiet. Like recording studio quiet. About every 3 days, I empty the water reservoir. I have a digital humidity indicator and I find that this product will reduce relative humidity in my 12x12 room by about 3% on average. For me, changing the humidity from 57% to 54% is significant, because 55% is where mold starts to grow.If you're looking for a more dramatic change in relative humidity, get a compressor dehumidifier.This is great for closets and pantries (it works better in smaller places), and for larger rooms where you only want to have a slight change in the humidity.

Does exactly what it's supposed to. I had a little trouble getting it to power on. Turns out the cup that holds the water is very touchy.....you have to get it positioned exactly right for it to power on. Inexpensive little unit, but for the money it's a good buy.

I got this for my car, which gets condensation (and eventually mold) on the inside during wet parts of the year. It worked really well through one wet season and even seemed to dry out my flooring after getting a bunch of snow on the inside. I'm on my second year with it though and all of the beads are kind of clumping together and the color indication of when it's full is a lot less clear. It still seems to be doing it's job but I don't think it'll last another year (which is fine for the price, IMO).

Not a ton to say about this. You open the unit, remove the plastic wrap and set it into the safe. It's been about a week with slight color change noted in the window. I have to guess I've got a ot a week and a half or so before a recharge will be needed. Living in the south I may grab an additional unit to help with humidity but we'll see how long this unit goes between charges.

I live in major humidity. This works great to keep the pantry from a stench. Works just as well as those disposable ones but no mess. I read others complain of it releasing the moisture back into the air. Just plug it in outside use an extension cord. I give it a 4 star because it only stays dry a little less than a week before needing to be replugged when the disposable ones last way longer.

It's a slow way to absorb moisture out of a smaller space (bookcase, cupboards, closets or in areas between furniture and a moldy exterior wall) but it works. The beads are packed neatly inside the plastic casing and I dry out the beads downstairs in the garage AC outlet. Usually takes about 10-12 hours before the beads in the clear window turn back to a light orange color. $15 is the best price I've found for the Eva-dry 333.

This tiny little powerhouse works great for small areas where a monster sized dehumidifier wouldn't be practical. It uses little beads to absorb moisture ( about a cup full I believe ) and the indicator on the front changes color to show when it is full. A clever tucked in plug folds out from the back and you can plug it into an outlet where it is then able to dry back out enabling you to use it again and again. It also comes with a hook that attaches if you want to hang it in a closet or something. Great price, neat product.

They work, and this size is "OK", but wish I'd bought the E500, the size I have in our microscopic toilet/shower. Larger means you don't need to renew it (plug it in, dry it out) as much. I'm in Dallas and use these E333 for 3 small closets, I renew them about 2x month. One thing they don't tell you in the instructions is whether or not you can leave them plugged in too longer, which I worried about at first. However, I've accidentally left them plugged in drying in the garage for a couple of days because I forget - no harm.

After a year of use it dropped significantly in its effectiveness. In wet Oregon the first winter it took a few days to fill up, now the next wet winter it takes two weeks. Notice how simular this (Chinese?) model looks to others branded under different names.

Worked ok for about a yr, then quit. Maybe that's all I can expect for the money. Use it to keep excess moisture out of the interior of my camper tow pickup. Bought a different one for a few buck more to replace it that is so far taking much more water out of the air.

Not bad but is not worth the price.... really small and takes about 2weeks to fill up, I have it in my closet.

Ran a week with humidity at 59% and it only half filled the container.Dot know if worth running electric wise for the amount of water it pulled

I got this small dehumidifier to try and take the dampness out of a small walk in closet. I can't see where it helps at all. I ran it for 12 hours (which is all you're supposed to run it at a time), and maybe 2 ounces of water? It seems to work as it should....and it's very quiet. But I don't believe it will do as I hoped it would.

Very Small, smaller than a coffee machine, so it's fits in very small places. Grabs water in the air and then you dump it from a small cup, size of a measuring cup, if you need it a bigger one, get two or three.

I was happy with this product for my gun safe. The product seems to keep the safe dry. A hanger is included with the product. The hanger must have been an afterthought because after routine drying, I was about to hang the device in my safe when it fell off the flimsy hanger and hit the floor. The door that keeps the crystals in popped open, and I had crystals, literally, everywhere. I spent at least an hour cleaning up the crystals. I am sure I missed some, and I hope they are not poisonous since my dog is frequently in that room.

Updating after 4 months use: Not as bad as I thought. Works OK in my small safe, but humidity doesn't go below 30%. It does stay there for a long time, which is good. Clay desiccant bags will lower humidity to 10%-20%. This desiccant is OK and does work and perhaps lasts longer between recharges.Had I know then what I know now, I probably would not have ordered these. My earlier review is below this line. In hindsight, I was too harsh with that earlier posting.---------------------Not functioning well at all! I bought two of these for a small safe (Verifi Smart.Safe) also purchased on amazon. The safe is great, while the desiccants are not removing moisture well.I put one of these in the safe and expected that my moisture test card would should 10%-20% moisture quickly. Didn't happen. After a week, I thought I'd try both of these "magic desiccant boxes" in the safe. Little change. The color of the beads is unchanged, and the moisture level is only slightly changed.I also have some 1-pound CLAY desiccant bags. Any one of those works better than two of these.Not worth the money, in my opinion. Might make great paperweights.

I'm sure it does a good job where intended. I tried to use it in my kegerator to keep moisture down, but the cold temperatures seem to render it ineffective for that application.

It would work well for a box, like a gun safe, but not so much for the car. We were hoping it would help our car stay less humid, we live in Florida and the AC went out in the van. If all the windows are up and the doors and windows never open I am sure it would have worked perfectly. It lasted 2 weeks in the van before the beads were all pink. It did charge quickly when we needed to charge it. We ended up giving it to my Dad to use for his gun safe. He says it works great there.

If you have a humidity problem, this dehumidifier is not large enough for closet sized areas. It said something about hang it in a closet, and even comes with a hook to go over a hanger rod. By the terms "wireless" and "renewable", what it means is that it is a container of something like a desiccant that can be dried periodically out by means of a built in heater that you plug in for about 24 hours every 30 days. Then you unplug it and hang it in the closet again. It can be easily forgotten and not renewed rendering it non-functional for that period. I will be replacing mine with a dehumidifier that stays plugged in full time. I use mine in a gun cabinet and even a space that small had it needing to be renewed in 30 days. I cannot afford for it to fail if I should forget to recharge.

I purchsed this unit to clear up some of the mositure issues that I have in my bathroom. It was actually working fairly well to just here recently. I recharged the unit and hung it on the shower rod for the overnight hrs. Well needs to say it slim off the little hook that came with the unit and little balls inside of this thing went EVERYWHERE. And apparently when they hit water they explode and go flying everywhere. I spent like an hour picking this things up and vaccum them up. They really need a better cap designed, but it just flew right off when it landed. Wonder if you can get some more of the little balls, so that I could at least fill my unit back up??

This thing lasted barely over a year before it stopped working. I would not recommend it. I previously had a Eva brand which also lasted about a year... Wouldn't recommend that one either.

Says it is good for 1100 square feet. My apt is smaller and it didn't produce as advertised. Left it on all night and the humidity actually went up. Sending back.

plugged it in, turned it on, the power light flashed, and nothing.... I hit it once and it seems to be working. Thankfully I bought this for a project.

2 stars because it does remove some water from the air. However it does not change the humidity at all in a 4 foot by 4 foot closet. The space sits at 70% humidity and 75 degrees. This humidifier does not change the humidity in this space at all. It runs all the time. Only remove about 4 ounces of water ever 4 days. This is way below the rating stated in the description. Stay away. Spend your money on a real dehumidifier you will thank me later.

No setting control, cannot leave on more than 12 hours, says not to operate unsupervised, wastes electricity and fire hazard if left on too long due to overheating transformer. Small, compact.Good for a bathroom, but not a basement room unless you want to monitor it all the time

Pro: Yes, quiet, except for small warm air flow, hardly know it's operating.Con: In a room with 70% relative humidity, hardly extracts any moisture, only filling half the tiny tank in 24 hours. Because it produces heat, it is consuming relatively a lot of electricity for the small dehumidification.Maybe good for inside a small closet, as long as you remember to empty the tank (since it's out of sight).Suggestions:- Fitting on bottom of the tank that can receive a piece of small tubing for continuous gravity emptying allowing the device to be run continuously with no supervision or attention except for cleaning off mold,- A digital humidity meter on front (like many other mini dehumidifiers) which will show the "success" (if any!) at reducing humidity.Unless your humidity problem is tiny, spend a few more dollars and buy a model with a compressor. When this unit failed to make a dent in our issue, we bought a GE unit and it brought the situation quickly under control.

I don't think this works as effectively as others have portrayed. I have seen the videos of people putting this in a safe or a closet and then coming back to show a reduction in humidity with a meter. I have tried it and it did not do anything. There's always the possibility that I got a dud but in my experience this did nothing. You are probably better off buying a mini powered dehumidifier.

The beads aren't changing color as shown. Also photos of the item I received don't appear to match the item shown on the homepage. I've had the unit plugged in for the recommended 10-12 hours but beads are still showing multiple colors.

This is an odd one for me. I keep one of these in my safe and I've had no problems with humidity. The trouble is I can't begin to match up the visible crystals with the color scale on the front. To my eyes the crystals always look a shade of boring beige. If I had to go by the color I wouldn't have any idea where things stood with regard to moisture. As it is I just go through the drying process about once a month and let it go at that. Also, it does get hot enough when plugged in that I wouldn't want to leave it unattended for, say, an 8 hour day at work.

This renewable mini dehumidifier is simple, cheap and effective. I purchased these to sit in a closet and soap drying drawer and they have proved to be very effective here in the tropics. They are simple to use- when the indicator turns completely pink just plug it in an outside socket to release the collected moisture and then return to area you wish to keep dry.Update:After using this for one month- the colors originally changed but after a couple of weeks quit, even after plugging in and supposedly releasing moisture. The cabinet does not seem to be getting any dryer!

I bought one of these and a like one from another maker and placed them in a 10 gun wooden cabinet. I have hydrometers inside and I cannot see that there is any difference between the outside of the cabinet and the inside. I was expecting somewhat of a drop in the relative humidity within such an enclosed space. They do absorb some moisture because I have had to refresh them but obviously not enough to be worth the expense.

I have a very small studio apt and thought this would be a good way to keep the moisture down. It took about 2 weeks for the little beads to go from blue (dry) to pink (wet) and when I plugged it in to discharge, it gets hot like it says, but takes almost a full 24 hours to competently dry up. And even then, it doesn't get fully dry like it was new, its just gets somewhat dry. After putting it back, it turned pink again within a few days. And then another full day to discharge it. It seems like the more I use it (only a few times) the less it holds, like its worn out or something. I kinda gave up using this thing, I spend more time plugging it near the window to discharge, its not worth all the effort and electricity for the little benefit it provided. Maybe it would be good for a very small space like a tight closet, but not anything larger.

Hardly does anything but looks good

This is a waste of money. It does not work. It got 1 tsp of moisture in 24 hrs. from a flooded bathroom.

Doesnt drop humidity this thing sucks.emptying out the water once it is full is a pain somtimes i was even checking if it was even on ha.

Worked one time. When emptied then it didn't work again.

Crapped out after a month

It worked for 30 minutes, then never again. I returned it for a refund

I wanted this for my bearded dragon tank because the humidity inside it has been going up now that we are going into fall and have the A/C turned off. This has done absolutely nothing to help. Very disappointed.

I bought two of these and will never buy one again.These things get extremely HOT. Not just warm, HOT.When I removed these from the outlet (wall socket) it was so hot I am surprised that it didn't start a fire. If only one was like this I would just assume it was a bad one, but when both are the same, then these seem pretty dangerous to me.They are both going in the trash.I would Not recommend these to a friend !!

Didn't seem to do anything for me. It gets extremely hot when "recharging" though which I know is normal but also worries that it will explode one day I'm not home.

it's not showing any colors like it states on the package as to when it's needs charging. its suppose to show pink or blue and it shows no color at all.

Did not work at all. I tossed it after about a month. No change in color in bathroom.

I have had the unit in a gun safe for about three days. The humidity has gone from 56% to 51%. I hope that this is not what all of the reviews are raving about. I noticed when I originally read the reviews that no one discussed percentages. I was hoping my numbers would go down drastically like into the 20's or 30's. Perhaps I am being impatient and it just takes time. This unit is in a 16 cubic foot gun safe and is rated to handle 333 cubic feet. What's the hold up.I will continue to monitor the level of moisture and if things improve I will return with an update and hopefully a better rating.