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My experience with "smart" driers is maybe less positive than others. Seems they typically only have one sensor in a rotating drum, if they "read" a t-shirt the
by apercu 3y ago
My experience with "smart" driers is maybe less positive than others. Seems they typically only have one sensor in a rotating drum, if they "read" a t-shirt they will stop because it's "dry". But your jeans and your towel are not. Or, the sensors become intermittent, so you stop using the "smart" features.
- mhink 3y agoFor what it's worth, my understanding is that it's generally not recommended to wash/dry different kinds of fabric together.
- pstrateman 3y agoYes before drying my clothes I'm sure to blend them to a consistent mush.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoI would naively assume the sensor would be a hygrometer measuring the humidity of the outgoing air. What kind of dryer do you have?
- r2_pilot 3y agoIt's not naive and that's how many of them work.
- sroussey 3y agoMine has no outgoing air…
- HankB99 3y agoWhere does the water go?
- r2_pilot 3y agoInto the house, clearly. Hopefully their air conditioning removes humidity too.
- np- 3y agoVentless driers typically use a condenser to pull out the humidity, condense it into water, and drain it into the same drain your washer uses. If it's working correctly, the humidity shouldn't be going into the air.
- ta1243 3y agoOr indeed into a container which you then empty
- r2_pilot 3y agoCool, I learned something. But it also does seem like that would take additional energy(due to the particularly high enthalpy of water, if I remember my concepts correctly) so at least where I am, venting the excess moisture is the most expedient method.
- ygra 3y agoVenting the moisture also vents the heat. A modern dryer uses a heat pump for both heating the air and pulling the water out of the air. Although I guess with lifetimes of the devices and the relative cost of power (or gas even) between NA and EU they might be much more common around here. With an insulated house you also don't really want to have too many holes in the building, especially not ones intended to remove heat.
- porphyra 3y agoThat's not it. The moisture sensor is two strips of metal on the inside of the dryer door that measure the conductivity between them or something.
- nan60 3y agoMine does exactly this and it frustrates my family and I to no end. More often than not clothes are not dry and I’ll just end up putting them through a speed dry cycle because that one doesn’t turn off automatically (which completely defeats the purpose as I’m running through more cycles than needed)
- porphyra 3y agoEven when I have a single blanket, it stops after a few minutes because one corner of it is dry while the inside is wet. I've had many loads develop mildew as a result. For large items even the "bulk load" setting with the max dryness doesn't reliably dry them throughout --- I have to manually put in "time dry" which is only accessible through the app.