Midea Cube 50 Pint with Pump

The pump is free to run

This is worth stating because it is a common worry and it is unfounded. A condensate pump does not run continuously - it fires for a few seconds when its small reservoir fills, several times an hour at most. Every Midea 50-pint Cube revision in the certified list, pump or not, computes to between 487 and 490 W.

So the pump costs you at purchase and effectively nothing thereafter. The question is only whether you need it, and that is answered by looking at your drain rather than at the spec sheet. Pump versus gravity.

What Midea does not tell you about the pump

How far it will push. Midea publishes no lift height and no hose run for this model - which puts it in the majority: of seven pump-equipped units in our registry, one publishes anything at all, and that is GE's 16-foot hose run, which is a distance rather than a height.

That absence is a real constraint on planning. If your destination is a laundry sink a few feet up, any household condensate pump will manage it. If it is a window eight feet up at the far end of a basement, you are relying on a capability nobody has committed to in writing. In that situation an external condensate pump - which publishes a maximum head, because installers need one - is the better-specified option. Pump lift and distance.

Quick picks

#	Product	Best for	Draw	Price
1	Midea Cube 50 Pint Dehumidifier with PumpSame machine as the Cube above with a condensate pump added, which is the difference between a hose you can run and a hose you cannot.	A basement whose only drain is upstairs	487 W	Check price on Amazon #ad How we are funded
2	Midea Cube 50 Pint DehumidifierThe only unit here that solves the real basement problem, which is not capacity but where the water goes when you are not standing next to it.	A basement you visit once a month	487 W	Check price on Amazon #ad How we are funded

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Midea Cube 50 Pint Dehumidifier with Pump

Best for: A basement whose only drain is upstairs

Same machine as the Cube above with a condensate pump added, which is the difference between a hose you can run and a hose you cannot.

Average draw

487 W

Computed from the ENERGY STAR certified entry for Midea MAD50PS1QWT-A, the pump variant of the same platform: 49.67 pt/day at IEF 2.01 L/kWh. The current retail revision is the -B; every Midea 50-pint Cube revision in the certified list, pump or not, computes to 487-490 W, so the pump does not move the number meaningfully. The pump itself only runs in bursts.

What is good

• +Pump means the destination can be higher than the machine - a laundry sink, a window, a stack
• +Identical DOE capacity and IEF to the non-pump Cube, so the pump costs you nothing in efficiency
• +The split body still works, so you can also run it on gravity and keep the pump as the backup
• +Certified 49.67 pt/day, an honest 50-pint rating

What is not

• -Costs more than the identical machine without the pump
• -A pump is one more thing that can fail, and when it does the unit stops rather than overflows
• -No published wattage from Midea - the figure above is computed

Who it is for

Anyone whose drain is above the floor. That is most finished basements and nearly every crawl space.

Skip it if

Skip it if you already have a floor drain within hose reach and below the machine. You would be paying for a pump you will never switch on.

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Midea Cube 50 Pint Dehumidifier

Best for: A basement you visit once a month

The only unit here that solves the real basement problem, which is not capacity but where the water goes when you are not standing next to it.

Average draw

487 W

Computed from the ENERGY STAR certified entry for Midea MAD50S1QWT-A, the 50 pt / 4,500 sq ft Cube without a pump: 49.67 pt/day at IEF 2.01 L/kWh. Midea's own US product page confirms MAD50S1QWT-A is this configuration. Midea publishes no wattage on the Amazon listing or on that page.

What is good

• +The body separates, so the tank half can sit lower than the compressor half and the hose gets a genuine downhill run
• +Certified at 49.67 pt/day, which is a real 50-pint machine rather than a saturation number
• +IEF 2.01 L/kWh puts it exactly on the median for the 50-pint class - neither a bargain nor a penalty
• +Wi-Fi that tells you it has stopped, which is the only smart feature that matters in a basement

What is not

• -No pump, so the drain has to run downhill the whole way
• -Midea publishes no wattage anywhere, so the 487 W above is computed rather than quoted
• -The 4,500 sq ft coverage claim is marketing, not a spec - see the sizing guide

Who it is for

Someone with a floor drain, a sump, or a window well lower than the machine, who wants to set it once and stop thinking about it.

Skip it if

Skip it if the only drain in the room is higher than the unit. Without a pump, gravity is the entire drainage system, and no setting fixes an uphill hose.

The gravity fallback nobody mentions

The pump version keeps the gravity outlet and keeps the splitting body. That means you can run it as a gravity unit and never switch the pump on, or run gravity as the primary and reserve the pump for a route you cannot get a fall on.

It also means that if the pump fails, the machine is not bricked - reconnect the gravity hose and it is a standard Cube. That is a genuine argument for buying the pump version even when you do not currently need a pump, provided the premium is modest.

Certified data, and what is computed

Note the retail revision currently sold is the -B rather than the -A. Both appear in the certified list and both compute to 487 W, so the mapping is safe - but it is the kind of suffix mismatch worth stating rather than papering over. Every wattage on this site names the exact certified model number it came from for this reason.