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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slarsen wrote:
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.
Agree with most everything except the ALL CAPS, totally absoulute "NO drying"
Heated air is RELATIVELY drier (it's called RELATIVE humidity) Totally with you that the AMOUNT of water doesn't change but 100 degree air at a dewpoint of 50 dries a LOT more than 50 degree air at a dewpoint of 50...
Warmer air has the capacity to hold more moisture. The ACT of warming it doesn't dry things- but it helps it to dry.
If warming did nothing, then hair driers would not have heating elements.
...and through the process of heated air leaking out, and cool air leaking in and getting heated, you will dehumidify an area. The warmer RELATIVELY drier air, can pull more moisture out of stuff (plants, moist towels, wet shower walls)...and then the humidity leaves when the hot air leaks out. (or when our OP kicks on the AC).
