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[โ€“] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Won't the dehumidifier warm up the room again?

[โ€“] EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yes, but it's not a big deal because it only will run once the humidity gets above a certain level - especially if you're using it to cover multiple rooms where any heat from it running will disperse across a wide area. You set it to something like 60% and it will pop on occasionally for a few minutes to maintain that level.

In a closed room with a swamp cooler it's a bit of a different story, but that's why I recommend that only for a short period of time, a couple of hours at most. Just long enough to cool down yourself and the room.

So you leave the dehumidifier on all the time on an automatic setting in a central location in the house to keep the air in the house fairly dry, run a swamp cooler late in the afternoon to cool down your room, and if it isn't too hot and humid outside, open a couple of windows in the house to get some cross ventilation going and air out the house once the sun goes down.