Graven Water posted for all of us...
> > What if it's too cold to run the AC,
> > yet warm enough so the heater isn't drying the air much? Say it's
> > 60F, and the humidity without any AC is 70%. I would want to heat at
> > that temperature, not cooling! If you run the AC, won't it have
> > to be cooling things down to 55F?
>
> Is the answer to this riddle, perhaps that the water-holding capacity of
> air increases very quickly with temperature? It does, I looked at a
graph.
> So there might be a rather narrow window of temperatures where it's too
> cold to use the AC and too warm for the heater to dehumidify well.
>
> There would be such a window, unless you're willing to ****ver with the
AC
> or overheat the house for the sake of dehumidifying. But maybe it's a
narrow
> range of temperatures.
>
> Laura
>
>
A good comparison would be your car A/C & heat. Using it to demist the
wind****eld the outside temp is say 50 and humidity is high and the people
in
the car are too. The defroster will be used and you will turn up the heat
because your nipples are popping. The outside air is run the a/c then the
heater coil warms it. You are comfy and fog is gone from the windows.
The a/c
is condensing the humidity by dropping the temperature and the heater is
warming it for comfort.
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