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Product

Frigidaire FDM70S1

Category

Home & Garden

Report number

20140113-FCAA6-2147448205

Ownership age

About 42 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Overheating

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20140113-FCAA6-2147448205. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Frigidaire FDM70S1. Incident: Frigidaire dehumidifier stopped pulling water out of air, smells hot and smoked. Smells like a circuit board or electronic component failure. We needed to unplug and stop using. Tried using again while closely watching and had the same issue. It took a while to start smelling hot again. We finally pulled the plug and stopped using it.

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Official report number: 20140113-FCAA6-2147448205. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.