Rainout Problem Solved

Well whadayaknow? No more rainout. We are buying a home in Arizona. While there, I found out that the lack of humidity (I'm assuming) has completely cured my rainout issues. The air conditioned room is cooler than my bedroom was in the Pacific Northwest during the winter - and still no rainout! Woo hoo!

I set the humidity to 1, the same setting as when in the Pacific Northwest, and curiously go through twice the amount of distilled water during the night.

It's an extreme solution, but hey if you're tired of rainout all you have to do is move to a desert area : )

Congrats on the resolution...a bit extreme maybe

gasp wrote: I set the humidity to 1, the same setting as when in the Pacific Northwest, and curiously go through twice the amount of distilled water during the night.

It's an extreme solution, but hey if you're tired of rainout all you have to do is move to a desert area : )

The dry desert air can wick up more water faster than the already saturated PNW air. It's the difference between having half-a-tank or an empty tank to put water into. The desert being the empty tank (zero humidity).

Rainout is a horrible surprise to wake up to in the middle of the night. Glad to hear you've got it solved.

Yep, it is extreme : ))) Last night I went through twice as much water usual and can't figure out why. Can already low humidity get even lower? Weird! Perhaps I'll just fill up the chamber every night.

I anticipate this phenomenon will also result in me drying up twice as fast too : )

I noticed that there is less of a moisture problem when I travel to southern California from the Pacific Northwest. Up here I use a heated hose. It helps unless you forget to plug in the thing.
About 25 years ago I lived in Salt Lake City. The humidity was so low there that I learned never to fall asleep with my mouth open otherwise it will take several glasses of water to rehydrate. I hope you do not have to worry about your mouth opening at night. In arid zones, that is not a pleasant thing.

gasp wrote:Yep, it is extreme : ))) Last night I went through twice as much water usual and can't figure out why. Can already low humidity get even lower? Weird! Perhaps I'll just fill up the chamber every night.

I anticipate this phenomenon will also result in me drying up twice as fast too : )

gasp wrote: I set the humidity to 1, the same setting as when in the Pacific Northwest, and curiously go through twice the amount of distilled water during the night.

It's an extreme solution, but hey if you're tired of rainout all you have to do is move to a desert area : )

Edit to clarify my response.

GumbyCT wrote:The dry desert air can wick up more water faster than the already saturated PNW air. It's the difference between having half-a-tank or an empty tank to put water into. The desert being the empty tank (zero humidity).

/Edited to clarify my response./
HTH

Linus wrote:I noticed that there is less of a moisture problem when I travel to southern California from the Pacific Northwest. Up here I use a heated hose. It helps unless you forget to glug in the thing.
About 25 years ago I lived in Salt Lake City. The humidity was so low there that I learned never to fall asleep with my mouth open otherwise it will take several glasses of water to rehydrate. I hope you do not have to worry about your mouth opening at night. In arid zones, that is not a pleasant thing.

Nope, my mouth seems to stay closed at night ever since training it to in the early days of XPAP. Now keeping it closed during the day is something I haven't mastered!

I buy a gallon of distilled water every week. (You don't want to use tap water in any of the metro areas tooooo hard) I pretty much fill my F&P 150 every night. One of the upsides/downsides of AZ is that dryness. Run the A/C when it's 105 outside with 8% humidity, and you don't even need a towel when you get out of the shower. I grew up here. I remember my mother taking a pair of jeans out of the washer, hanging them on the clothesline then wearing them 40 minutes later.

LouC wrote:I buy a gallon of distilled water every week. (You don't want to use tap water in any of the metro areas tooooo hard) I pretty much fill my F&P 150 every night. One of the upsides/downsides of AZ is that dryness. Run the A/C when it's 105 outside with 8% humidity, and you don't even need a towel when you get out of the shower. I grew up here. I remember my mother taking a pair of jeans out of the washer, hanging them on the clothesline then wearing them 40 minutes later.

I can't even drink this nasty chlorinated water let alone let it anywhere near my XPAP : ) Wow, jeans drying that fast - no wonder my heels are cracking. They were baby smooth before I came here! I do enjoy my very thick/long hair drying quickly. At home in the Northwest it wouldn't even dry by bedtime!