Comment on Desiccant dehumidifiers are fascinating... but not for everyone [29:19]

sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Like a humidifier is for me, I’d be so happy to have 40% for a week but it rarely goes under 60

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  • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wonder why there are no humidistats.

    You know, a combined humidifier/dehumidifier that keeps a constant humidity.

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    • twice_hatch@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Maybe it’s uncommon to have a climate where you need both.

      My furnace has a humidistat so in the winter we can adjust how much water gets sent into the hot air stream. But it’s always maxed out because it’s really dry every winter here.

      In the summer, the AC takes care of dehumidifying. Running a dedicated dehumidifier would be a waste of electricity, at that point just turn on the AC and any extra cold is a buffer against running the AC later on.

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      • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Growing up in Oklahoma, my grandfather ran a humidifier in the winter, and a dehumidifier in the summer. Even with a HVAC system, he’d have to dump out the dehumidifier every other day.

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Complexity? You either need a drain, or a supply of water, that can’t be easy to work with, and unlike with a refrigerant loop, you can’t just reverse it to dry/wet things.

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    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Humidifiers are simple and cheap. Maybe the cost of a 2 in 1 wouldn’t make commercial sense.

      Also, it would probably need two water tanks, as I imagine you wouldn’t want to use the drain tank as a clean water source.

      Just guessing here.

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• rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Put this on your desk with a spigot on the side, and the humidifier on the other side of the room. Congratulations: pipeless pipe.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Utility companies hate him!

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• scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah I am in the same boat. I operate a swamp cooler inside my house, even!

  But I used to live on a hill in San Francisco, the first hill the fog would hit as it rolled in from the Pacific Ocean, and I distinctly remember the feeling of getting up in the morning and reaching between the hangers in the closet to take a shirt out, and feeling how they were all damp. Super gross!

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