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Originally Posted by S-F
You can get whole house dehumidifiers that use much less energy than an AC unit does. I have also heard that some of them get power from hot water (I don't understand this yet) so if you have excess hot water in the summer form you solar panels you can put it to good use.
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I think I've already posted about this.?. But Recently I decided to use
the
dehumidifier Mode on my Sanyo Mini-split.
It got super muggy, but wasn't really that hot, just very uncomfortable.
The inside coil got pretty cold, but the fan was hardly turning.
Just a small breeze of Very cold air coming out of it.
Outside, the drain hose was dripping pretty fast.
It wasn't too long before the house was very comfortable,
but a little bit on the cold side (for me anyways).
The TED was showing around 300 watts of power draw.
(That's 3 kwh after 10 hours, for a cost of 63 cents).
It seemed oddly low. Normal
low cooling is 400-460w, even on a coolish day.
So, now we know how to use even less kwh per day, when it's not
real hot, but so damp, you feel like you're swimming..
The thing that I found interesting.. There is no humidity sensor on the Sanyo.
So, it just runs continuously. I never saw it shut down, until I increased
the temperature setpoint, well above room temp.
Nothing automatic when drying up the house. Just have to keep
an eye on how dry it's getting. Our house went from around 80%
down into the 40% range, IIRC..
It might have been 90% in here, since my Radio Shack digital
weather gadget is 10+ years old now..
