Originally Posted by Cort

I am by no means an expert but I believe the problem you were having is that you had the vino set at the coolest possible setting. This makes the cooling unit run all the time which sucks the humidity out of the air and turns it in to condensate which you were finding on the drip tray. Most people including me set their vinos to the highest setting (66) so that it only runs the cooling unit for a short time when it gets too hot. I live in So Cal where it gets real hot and during those hot days the vino works a little harder and gets up to about 73-74* and the humidity drops to the low 60's. At night when it cools down the vino stops runnin and the humidity stabilizes again back to 65%rh.

Try setting it up to 66 and see what happens. I use 2lbs. of Shilala beads in mine and it works great.

Hope this helps.