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running dehumidifier with central a/c, yes or no?
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Stormy Weather wrote: If your intention is to control the humidity, then yes run your de-humidifiers. The trade off is more money. The heat added by the de-humidifiers will cause the a/c to run longer... The heat is bad news, in summertime. ...Just let the AC filter get dirty. To reduce the airflow over the cold side... Well, it is wrong, but filters isn't the answer. (Although they may help with the constant volume problem.) I disagree. (What's the "constant volume problem"?) I don't think his intention is to control humidity, I think it is to save energy. We might use night air for cooling, with AC mainly for dehumidification. ...Normal household AC does not control humidity. It controls temperature, and reduces humidity by happy thermodynamic accident. It's no accident. If C cfm of 70 F air at 50% RH with Pa = 0.374" Hg enters a box with a 20 ft^2 40 F coil and mixes well before leaving, we might have something like this (viewed in a fixed font): 1/C 1/40 70 ---www-------www--- 40 | T = exit air temp = 40+30C/(C+40). cfm T RH@70F = 100e^(17.863-9621/(T+460))/(2x0.374) 100 61.4 50% 50 56.7 50% 20 50.0 49% | 10 46.0 42% | dirty filter 5 43.3 38% | One way to get better control is to use a humidistat and add reheat. Reheat is bad news, in summertime. A dehumidifier could sort of function that way. I think you would want to change your basic AC parameters if you wanted to do that though. We might add a freezestat... Nick |
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Hi ~^Johnny^~, hope you are having a nice day On 21-Aug-04 At About 14:36:13, ~^Johnny^~ wrote to All Subject: running dehumidifier with central a/c, yes or no? ~ From: ~^Johnny^~ ~ Ane evap cpil will ice up, if the compressor runs too long, ~ regardless of airflow, UNLESS there is a good EPR downstream in the ~ suction line. Just so eveyone is clear this is not true. if the air flow and temp are high enough you could run the compressor as long as you want and it would not freeze. but if you let the air flow rate, or temp, drop too low it will freeze in no time flat. -= HvacTech2 =- ... *IT IS* documented, look under "For Internal Use Only." ___ TagDude 0.92á+[DM] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++ spam protection measure, Please remove the 33 to send e-mail |
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