It's shocking how much air conditioning raises the relative humidity here

[SwampNut]

Some of you will immediately think I'm retarded.  I can't necessarily argue, but on this topic, I'm not.  I've carefully tracked it.  Both thermostats monitor it, the Homepods have humidity sensing, and I have other sensors that happen to have humidity as an aside.

 

AC removes ABSOLUTE humidity, but RH is relative to temp obviously.  Since our AC can be fighting 115 degrees to get to 77, that's a huge amount of relativity.  

 

RH=ese×100

 

So...that change means the RH goes up by up to 90% if all else were equal (which it's not).  I don't have any way to know how much water is removed relative to all this.  I can't get any AI to give me a conclusive number.  The best I can come up with is around 50% removal of AH, but there are surely a billion variables.

 

Anyway, our humidifier has not kicked on for months, and the thermostats occasionally warn us that RH is above whatever is "not good."  I think that's 60%.  In winter, obviously, the reverse is true and we dump 6+ gallons a day into the air.

 

I don't know that this info is useful really, but I find such data and experiments to be fun and fascinating.

 

[SwampNut]

[superhawk996]

My little bit of knowledge is that the RH goes up if the system is more powerful than it's supposed to be and doesn't run long enough to lower humidity.  But, this is mostly from what I learned about systems in So.FL. where the environmental problems are the opposite of what you have.

 

I don't have monitors, but what we've felt is that our AC lowers the humidity.  I only know this because I have inside and outside thermometers and it's often nicer inside with the AC on even when the outside temp is a little lower.

[SwampNut]

38 minutes ago, superhawk996 said:

it's often nicer inside with the AC on even when the outside temp is a little lower.

 

That's when the RH has to go down, the opposite when it's super hot outside and you cool it.