If air conditioners don't remove humidity, what is all that water that is piped out of the house. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 3/30/00 at 9:15 AM Larry J. Messerly wrote: >" You are sitting in your house and get to feeling to warm so you turn >on the airconditioner which takes the outside air as it is... humdity >and all and cools it down while pumping it around inside your house." > >Dear List, I disagree, > >Air Conditioners do NOT remove moisture from the air. > >Pray tell, unless you have an air handler system as is used in large >structures to keep the air fresh, HOW are you getting that air into your >house to cool. Most air conditioners I know just cool and recirculate >the air already in the structure. Absolute Humidity remains the same, >relative humidity rises. That's why in Phoenix (and I presume elsewhere) >air conditioned air is good for pianos. > >Larry Messerly, RPT >Prescott/Phoenix David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275
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