> What if it's too cold to run the AC,
> yet warm enough so the heater isn't drying the air much? Say it's
> 60F, and the humidity without any AC is 70%. I would want to heat at
> that temperature, not cooling! If you run the AC, won't it have
> to be cooling things down to 55F?
Is the answer to this riddle, perhaps that the water-holding capacity of
air increases very quickly with temperature? It does, I looked at a
graph.
So there might be a rather narrow window of temperatures where it's too
cold to use the AC and too warm for the heater to dehumidify well.
There would be such a window, unless you're willing to ****ver with the AC
or overheat the house for the sake of dehumidifying. But maybe it's a
narrow
range of temperatures.
Laura
