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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When reading the last few posts, one thing occurred to me:
Your car uses the heat and cool process to control humidity in any weather, including getting the vapor off the inside of the windows when it rains. The engine's heat is waste heat anyway, by which I mean it is "free," but it lets the A/C dry the air in any weather to a nice, comfortable temperature.
And since vehicles are built very air-tight, there is essentially no other air coming in that didn't go through the heating/cooling process. It isn't uncommon to have air in your car that is very, very dry indeed, like under 30% relative. Ever notice how thirsty you can get during a long trip? As far as your respiratory system is concerned, you're in the desert.
Your car uses the heat and cool process to control humidity in any weather, including getting the vapor off the inside of the windows when it rains. The engine's heat is waste heat anyway, by which I mean it is "free," but it lets the A/C dry the air in any weather to a nice, comfortable temperature.
And since vehicles are built very air-tight, there is essentially no other air coming in that didn't go through the heating/cooling process. It isn't uncommon to have air in your car that is very, very dry indeed, like under 30% relative. Ever notice how thirsty you can get during a long trip? As far as your respiratory system is concerned, you're in the desert.
