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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K3WE wrote:
Now, does the camping world need to change our ways and start running both the heat and AC every time it gets a little humid???...
Well ... yes - sometimes.
(By the way I misspoke in my posts earlier. What I do to reduce humidity in our RV when it's only marginally warm outside but real moist outside is to run both the RV's air conditioner and an electric heater at the same time - NOT the RV's air conditioner and the RV's propane furnace at the same time.)
Here's the macro situation in the past under which we ran both a heater and an air conditioner at the same time to stay comfortable:
1) We were touring the Deep South and Southeast in July and August under special circumstances that gave us no choice ... I recommend that no one EVER DO THIS in an RV this time of the year.
2) It was a temporary RV experience (10 weeks only), so we did not want to invest in a stand-alone quality dehumidifier (which can cost almost as much as an air conditioner) just for this trip.
3) Energy efficiency was of no concern for the short time periods that we had to run both an electric heater and the air conditioner to be comfortable in super-humid but not overly hot evening or nighttime conditions.
Under the three criteria above, our use of both an electric heater and the RV's air conditioner at the same time was what I called "a poor man's RV dehumidifier". I called it this because we already had the electric heater and the air conditioner - so why spend the additional money to buy a dehumidifier?
Also FWIW, most dehumidifiers have a water tank that has to be emptied periodically. Using my poor man's RV dehumidifier setup, there was no water tank to bother with, as the water was removed by the air conditioner and drained automatically outside the RV. ;)
