Timeline for Why is my aircon increasing relative humidity?
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| Nov 10, 2020 at 12:44 | comment | added | FreeMan | @djay Try letting it run 24/7 for a few days and see if it not only cools, but dries out the house. Once you've confirmed that it's doing that and the bedroom has dried out, try turning it off during the day/on at night and see what happens. You'll probably discover that the room gets humid again fairly quickly and doesn't get dry enough. You'll probably need to run it at your overnight temp at night, then maybe allow it to warm 5-10°F during the day, then cool it again in the evening before going to bed, in order to keep the humidity in check. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 4:45 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | The water is coming into your room all the time in the air from the outside. It is actually worse during the day (in most places), so if you only run the A/C at night it can be very hard for it to catch up. | |
| Nov 10, 2020 at 3:44 | comment | added | djay | We generally run it overnight while we sleep. We aren't in the bedroom during the day so there isn't a need to waste electricity on it. I'm not sure the reasoning behind running it 24/7. Are you saying there is some source of water in my room that takes days to extract? It's already extracting perhaps 5 litres a night (15L throughput machine) so I'm not sure what that source could be that is providing that much water. | |
| Nov 9, 2020 at 12:17 | history | answered | d.george | CC BY-SA 4.0 |