This is the one I use. I have to empty it twice a day, but it works great. I have it set to 50%, but I believe it could go lower if I needed it to (which I don’t). It was $240 at Home Depot if I remember correctly. The farthest corner of the house away from it is about 5% above the setting. The room it’s in, which is the room my 4X4 is in, is dead nuts at 50%. It comes with a drain hole capped on the back if I wanted to hook a hose up to it, but it’s gravity feed and I don’t have a drain in the floor, lol.
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Nice! I have a Frigidaire 50 pint in there. Keeps it in the 70s instead of 90s when the lights are off. I’ve thought about grabbing a water mit dehumidifier when some joog is selling one cheap online, but have never done it.
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They don’t look stressed. That’s for sure 
I used to be really wary of electrical work until I just went for it one day. I started by reconfiguring wiring in my garage and taking my best guess as to how shit goes back together. The worst that happens is I kept tripping the breaker til I got it right. I was lucky that my garage is gross and there’s no ceilings or walls up. It’s just wires and switches and outlets and light fixtures galore. Haha. But really running a dedicated circuit is pretty easy depending on your panel location and where you want the wire to go. I would assume the worst part would be the possible millions of little drywall cut outs you would have to patch to fish the wire where it needs to go.
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I’d like it upstairs in the opposite corner of the house from where the panel is at downstairs in the garage. But, I’d take one anywhere that I can just run a heavy gauge extension cord to. My office is on the other side of the panel. Probably easiest to set one up there I’m guessing.
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Yes that’s definitely going to be your easiest route. However if you have good spacial awareness, I think you could get the circuit to the room in as few as 3 holes that would need to be patched.
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I would try to stick with Romex 12/3 wire and try to run it from the top of your panel into the attic. My guess is the hole is already there. Once you have it in the attic, run it to the wall you want to drop it down to and drill a hole in the 2X4 between the studs and feed it down to where you want the receptacle. Buy a new breaker for your panel and dedicate it to just that circuit. Then you should only have to cut the hole for the outlet box and wire your outlet.
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Most likely, I’ll just try to find someone that works for this decent sized ac/electric company around here who did all of these houses and try to give them a pound or two to put in a dedicated circuit and a mini split. But, I could easily put one in the room/closet with the ac handler upstairs just following that line up I’m guessing.
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Ahhhh, that makes sense. Thanks!!
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I like the way you so succinctly just described the process. Mine would have had a lot of swear words sprinkled through out 
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LOLLLLLL!!!
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Could I put a 50 amp breaker on my current panel and put that in the room? Would that be six gauge? Or is 12 gauge with a 20 amp better? Think I’d need two of those at least. 1600 watts in leds, big portable ac, 50 pint dehumidifier, 6” and 8” exhaust, and two fans. What’s the best way to handle that?
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If you are going to drag 50 amps into that room, I would have it terminate into a sub panel where you could run a couple 20 amp circuits.
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I’m just trying to run all of that stuff without having extension cords going to three different places in the house. Downstairs and stuff. Haha Looks janky.
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I like the 50amp dedicate line idea, but I would run that into a sub panel solely dedicate to the grow. Then you could have individual separate circuits for lights, AC, dehu etc.
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Yes. 6 amp would be what you would need for 50 amps, but your standard house receptacle is only rated for 20 amps. I would run more than one circuit in that case. You would need more than one circuit anyway since you need to run multiple devices.
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That’s an option as well. And probably the least amount of work.
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So, I’d run a sub panel off of the main breaker and put that sub panel in the room upstairs? Is that better than running two or three 20 amps up there?
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Probably cheaper on wire and stuff, no?