More dehumidifier stuff

OK...so I ran the dehumidifer with the fan on for about 2 weeks.  Mind you...the dehumidifier itself should turn the air over in the crawl space at least 24 times per day...in a perfect world.  So with the fan running it should do a better job.  Well, it ran constantly for a long time and when the dehumidifer started cycling, I knew I must be close.  

So yesterday, I turned off the fan and just let the dehumidifer do its thing.  Unfortunately, I didn't read the manual and thought that setting it on the "3 hrs" mode would mean it would run for 3 hours then turn off.  Nope...it means its runs for 3 hrs...then turns off...and then 3 hrs later it turns on.  Seriously?  It has a 6, and 12 version of the same thing.  Really?  So there's no way to save on electricity?  It's 12 hrs of operation or Auto?!?

Come on!

OK...so this morning I switched it back to "Auto" mode...and from the figure below you can see that its constantly cycling again.  Dang it!

My guess is that I'm going to have to purchase a cheap-o $15 box fan and install it down in the crawl space with it hooked up to one of those "smart strips".  Such that when the dehumidifer turns on...then it turns on the box fan also.  Maybe that'll fix this annoying constant "on/off" cycling.  It's OK, if it turns on once every hour...but ever couple minutes sucks!

BTW, my power usage jumped up to about 45 kWH/day (OUCH!) with the fan and the dehumidifer running non-stop.  Once I turned off the fan, it went down to 36 kWh/day.  My goal is to get it back to 30 kWh/day if I can ever get the dang dehumidifer to stop running for 8 hrs!