Desiccant: High or Low?

[sambolino44]

We have a very small place, and a very small bathroom where we hang our dive gear out to dry. I've been using calcium carbonate desiccant in one of those pots that suspends the desiccant over a tub to collect the water it pulls out of the air. I know that hot air rises, but also that humid air is more dense than dry air, so...

Will my desiccant pot be more effective if I put it way up high on a shelf near the ceiling, or down on the floor?

 

[BDSC]

I honestly don't think your desiccant is helping much at all unless you have a really massive amount of it and I'm talking massive. You'd be better off just putting a fan in the bathroom to circulate the air and dry things that way.

 

[spectrum]

Dry dive gear is depressing, why encourage it?

Vapor pressure has a mind of it's own and to the extent that it will work I don't think it's terribly position sensitive.

In my day job I work with a lot of drying process. Air movement is paramount.

Pete

 

[sambolino44]

Well, when I had a fan on it, the tub filled up with water a lot quicker, that's for sure. And I can tell that even with the small amount I'm using, the gear does get dry faster with the desiccant. I realize that the difference would probably be so minute as to be insignificant; I was just asking because I was curious.