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I would naively assume the sensor would be a hygrometer measuring the humidity of the outgoing air. What kind of dryer do you have?
by IncreasePosts 3y ago
I 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 2y agoOr indeed into a container which you then empty
- r2_pilot 2y 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 2y 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.