Has anyone purchased this high end drying center? It just hit the market in the last 4 months. Escentially it's a regular dryer with a cabinet on top. The cabinet has its own electric heater which allows you to hang dry clothing on hangers or lay items on a screen type shelving. The idea is you can gently dry items without tumbling, remove odors, and remove wrinkles. My wife seems to dry more items by hanging these days than complete tumble drying so this seemed to be a good idea for us.
The concept looks good but we have run into a snag with this new dryer. Apparently the upper cabinet is not vented to the outside and moisture laden air is apparently parceled out into the existing room. In our case the unit is parceling out this moisture all over the insides of the cabinet and every metal seam is dripping water onto the floor. Enough in fact to cause puddles.
What concerns me even more is the moisture that is accumulating over the contol panel and I have visible water droplets running down it. We are running with the second control board which has also gone bad. After 6 weeks of ownership Maytag cannot resolve the problem and is going to give me another unit of the same model. I commend them for this. We are crossing our fingers that this unit is better since the moisture around the electronics is going to be a real problem.
From what we have found out, units in cold basements or other cold areas have seen this problem. Obviously you are not told about this when you buy one of these units. In our case we are in a living area that is warm and at the proper humidity. Answers from them have run the gammet from overloading (we are not) too cool a climate (not in our case), or not allowing the steam water bottle to be present (regular drying program for wet clothes uses steam near the end of the drying cycle).
Bottom line I expect some definate changes in both the drying programs and instructions for future models. I have a feeling we are the beta testers of this product or I just bought a lemon. At this point we are awaiting delivery of another unit. Hopefully we will find that we got a lemon...
Jack