"Tekkie®" <Tekkie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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.
> --
> Tekkie - I approve this advertisement/statement/utterance.
good explanation, but it it involved a possible DUI. need to do a drug
test
on her too.
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