Humidity! How to drop 20-30% in an hour.
So we're camping this past 9 days in all kinds of weather. Heat, cool, thunderstorms, dry, you get the picture. We're in our HTT with PUGs. Humidity was really high outside at times, which we didn'...
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There are a few inaccuracies here.
Heating does not remove humidity, it merely warms the trailer so that running the A/C can do so. The heating portion of the furnace is removing only the moisture that burning a fossil fuel creates. It is a closed system. There is NO drying of the inside air going on, although warmer air will feel drier . . . because in a relative sense, it is. Any electric heater will do the same.
The reason that heating a trailer in cold weather dries the air is that what we are talking about is RELATIVE humidity. Relative to temperature. If you bring in cool but very wet air, and warm it up, the warmer air is drier in a relative sense but the actual moisture content is the same. The world around us, and we ourselves, react to relative humidity, not the specific moisture content.
It would seem that a dehumidifier is the better, more efficient way to dry the air when the temps are such that A/C can't do it. But in a pinch, what was described can do the job: heat the air so the A/C can do it. The problem is, that is a temporary fix that will probably need to be repeated every few hours. And from an energy standpoint, it is wasteful.
Heating does not remove humidity, it merely warms the trailer so that running the A/C can do so. The heating portion of the furnace is removing only the moisture that burning a fossil fuel creates. It is a closed system. There is NO drying of the inside air going on, although warmer air will feel drier . . . because in a relative sense, it is. Any electric heater will do the same.
The reason that heating a trailer in cold weather dries the air is that what we are talking about is RELATIVE humidity. Relative to temperature. If you bring in cool but very wet air, and warm it up, the warmer air is drier in a relative sense but the actual moisture content is the same. The world around us, and we ourselves, react to relative humidity, not the specific moisture content.
It would seem that a dehumidifier is the better, more efficient way to dry the air when the temps are such that A/C can't do it. But in a pinch, what was described can do the job: heat the air so the A/C can do it. The problem is, that is a temporary fix that will probably need to be repeated every few hours. And from an energy standpoint, it is wasteful.
