70 Humidity In Bedroom
When is the AC not useful in humidity?
Even though refrigerator air conditioning is the easiest and most effective way to bring them the humidity level indoors, there are times when air conditioning will do the opposite.
AC humidity problems
1. Running the AC with "fan on" setting engaged.
There's a lot of confusion when it comes to running the air conditioner with the "fan on" setting engaged versus the "auto on" setting engaged.
The "fan on" setting well actually makes your home feel more humid.
The reason is, one of the primary ways that an air conditioner cools down a room is by extracting the humidity and turning it into condensation.
But when the "fan on" setting is engaged, the humid air that is being pulled into the air conditioner does not have a chance to stay in front of the condenser coils of the AC long enough to turn into condensation.
So the result is humid air being pulled into your air conditioner and redistributed throughout the house without the humidity being extracted.
2. Too large of an air conditioner
Another problem that can occur with air conditioning and humidity is that you have too large of an AC unit.
The result of running an AC unit that is too large for a home is a phenomenon called "short cycling".
Which means that your air conditioner turns on and off more frequently.
This affects the way a air conditioner extracts humidity because the air conditioner is continually turning on and off,
and not giving the condenser coils enough time to turn the humidity into condensation and funneled out of the house.
3. Evaporative cooling
Evaporative coolers are essentially a large fan blowing over water as a means of cooling the air off.
Evaporative coolers are also known as swamp coolers because they can make a room feel swampy.
Number one, if you were trying to use a evaporative cooler when the humidity is high, you will not be able to feel anything much more than a fan coming from the unit at that point.
Number two, you are only adding more humidity to an already elevated moisture level.
And for some people this may be the reason your home feels humid in the first place.
Any devices or machines like evaporative coolers or humidifiers that disburse water droplets into the air, should not be operated when the humidity level is high in the house.
Humidifiers are for dry air only.
Source: https://breathebetterair.org/dehumidifiers/60-percent-humidity-in-the-house-70-80/
