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Was looking for something I didn't have to bake in the oven for 12 hours to 'recharge' and came across this guy. Using this in a waterproof safe for the past few months and has worked great.

This is a godsend. I live in a very humid area and it was affecting my guitar in a bad way. I put this product in my case and I keeps my guitar at a perfect 50% humidity! I recharge it about every three weeks. I love this device!

I have been using this in a medium safe for several months and it works as advertised. I have to recharge it every 6-7 weeks but it recharges quickly and has eliminated the musty odors in the safe. I would buy this again.

Update 1-17-17 I ordered a second one about 2 months back because the single unit in the RV was needing to be recharged every couple weeks. With this second unit I have not had to recharge this in almost a month.Now I keep one inside the RV on opposite ends.Original review;Works AWESOME.I keep one in the RV and haven't noticed any off orders or musty smells in the RV yet.I would not leave this unattended around kids or when you're away from home.When you're recharging it as it gets kind of hot to burn off the moisture it's absorbed.

I love these! I bought 2 and they work great. I was skeptical about the color change crystals but they definitely work. I have these in closets and the dampness/moisture has dropped dramatically. My clothes used to feel 'clammy' but not a problem anymore. They are way better than the Damprid buckets I had been using...too messy and prone to spillage.

WOW! This really sucks the moisture out of the car, no mess, no fuss. I live where it rains a lot so it's impossible to keep water from my clothes and hair out of the car. Since I put this in my car, no more foggy windows. I highly recommend it to anyone who lives in rainy or snowy areas.

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

I got this for my guitar room and it does a great job keeping the humidity 40-50% in a room about 10x10. I have to charge it quite often in the summertime ( I live in NorCal) but I think if I added a 2nd one I would not have to charge as often. Charging is a breeze and sometimes I just leave it plugged in. Great little product for the $

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.

Great little dehumidifier to keep in my box of filament.

Seems to be working?? Hard to tell

Own two. Work good, not great, but also dont need power.

Works great. But I had to learn Mandarin to read the instructions.

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Keeps cash and paperwork relatively dry. Had it it our safe about a month now.

This was purchased for my Dad's safe, and worked well. I had purchased an earlier version for myself and have been quite happy with its performance in my safe. The improved moisture display was appreciated. Disappointed with the "new and improved" hook for hanging it in the safe. The older model uses a metal hook; the "new and improved" version is cheap plastic. Guess when this one breaks (and it will), I will have to fashion a new hook - guarantee that one will be of metal!

Not sure how much it actually did because the closet I placed it in still felt damp, but that's my fault because the closet is inside the bathroom.It lasts about 3 days before it needs a charge, which isn't bad!Probably best to spend the extra money on a proper dehumidifier, especially if you have a walk in closet in the bathroom and you want to protect your clothes.

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.

It's okay, it seems working but I have been waiting for the orange color after 24 hours of charging, but i don't know why you could hardly see orange not unles you spot it with flashlight.

It came with no directions in English.

The unit overheats while charging.

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??

Maybe I should have gotten the larger models. It seems that I have to refresh them almost once every two weeks. I have a 24 gun safe. Not sure the cubic dimensions. Maybe it is moisture from oils after lubricating my weapons. I am not sure. But they definitely turn color. I am waiting on a hygrometer to measure the humidity that exists inside the safe. I live in a humid environment during the summer months. I have my safe in a cool basement that is not included in my central A/C unit. And I an recently talking about having to refresh these during the winter months. I have also purchased other moisture absorbing products to assist and control moisture. I do not see any problems with rusting and it helps to keep all ammo as dry as possible. I keep metal ammo cans inside safe with as much ammo as i can fit.

It kinda sucks. For use in a car

Meh.

directions in chinese, Unlike the picture

Seems to have little to no effect

doesn`t work even in a small gun locker. Don`t waste your money

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.

Bought several of these. They last for 3 or 4 recharges.

I bought this model at the exact same time as another similar product. I've used both in my RV for exactly the same amount of time and have recharged both products equally. This product has failed to restore itself after only two charges. The other product, while a little more costly, is still working perfectly.

I bought two of these, and on top of them not having English translations to even indicate whether "wet" or "dry" and needs to be recharged (the only way I found this out was through looking at the online photo of the product description), one of them stopped working after 1 month (I kept charging it and it did not change from "wet" to "dry"). When I looked online to see what I could do about it, a message popped up saying the warranty for this item is only for a month after the purchase date or something to that affect. I had to throw away. It was a waste of money and I recommend purchasing the Eva-Dry dehumidifier instead (I've had mine for over 10 years and it still works).

Can you read Chinese? I can't. All labels on this thing are Chinese (at least I think). Either way, useless to me not being able to read the information on it. This may function as intended, but I don't want anything around the house that has the warning or information communicated in a language I can't understand. In 6 months when I check this out I don't want to have to remember where the manual is to decode what wet and dry is. The unit I received is not like the one attached that has everything in English. See attached images.

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.

These do nothing. Mine turns green (wet) when I dry it out by plugging in and turns yellow (dry) when soaked with moisture. I have this in a very humid refrigerator, and the color has never changed...always yellow (dry). These are a waste.

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.