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Originally Posted by Gladys Turnip
We like to keep the humidity in our (new) home in TV under 60%, preferably closer to 50%. We have a heat pump, and an ecobee 3 lite thermostat.
We found that in the summer, the humidity was fairly easy to control, most likely because the A/C had to run a lot to keep the house cool (and of course the A/C also serves a dehumidifying function).
However, now that winter is coming and the temperatures are dropping, the A/C does not run as often, sometimes not running all night (and I see next week low temps will be near 50, so I would expect the A/C may not run all day).
When the A/C does not run, the humidity sneaks back up, like to the low or mid-60% range.
My questions are:
-- Does anyone else out there have this problem?, and
-- What do you (can I) do about it?
Thanks!
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My humidity was running too high when I had the fan set to 'on' all the time-its counterintuitive until I googled it and was reminded that the fan blowing on the condensate in the bottom of the air intake was rehumidifying my house. So now my ecobee is set to run the A/C if the humidity is above 61%-it sometimes gets kinda cool in here but I don't want too much humidity, for sure. Biggest electric bill this summer was $120 and I find that great. Now people will comment their electric bill runs $0.50/month.....