GE Model# AEH06 Room A/C "does not dehumidify"

[Cosmo]

Brand new unit does not dehumdify. Outside humidity was low when unit was installed (2 weeks ago) and did not pay attention to the humidity until it went up. Unit seems to cool fine but no dehumidification (room: 69degrees F and 80% humidty, outside: 85 and 85 today).

Unit is rated at 6300 BTUH and the room is 196sf (14'x14') with a 2' high sloped ceiling. We are running the ceiling fan in the "blowing down" direction at the same time the A/C is running. There is no "inside/outside" air setting/lever on the unit.

We have central air but want to keep our bedroom 6 to 10 degrees cooler that the rest of the house (grandkids get cold). We have closed the room vent but there is a 1" gap at the bottom of the bedroom door (which we keep closed).

Thanks for any help....

[RegUS_PatOff]

[user=20722]Cosmo[/user] wrote:

... room: 69 degrees F and 80% humidty, outside: 85 ....

remember, that's Relative Humidity

room 69F @ 80% has less "moisture" than 85F @ 80%

Actually, if you measured the R.H. of the cold air blowing right off of the Evaporator

of your Central Air Conditioner, you'd find it reads nearly 100%, (at a low temperature)

[kdog]

[user=20722]Cosmo[/user] wrote:

We have central air

which has already removed the humidity

[Cosmo]

Clarification:

Bedroom with central air vents closed, door to bedroom closed. The temp/humidity in bedroom is 69/75. The temp/humidity in the rest of the house (this is a ranch house) is 76/50. This is with an outside air temp/humidity of 87/75 (yesterday at 4PM).

The bedroom feels damp!

Relative humidity or not, something is not working correctly! The humidity in the bedroom seems to always match that of the outside air. According to GE the unit features 1.8 pints/hour dehumidification.

[RegUS_PatOff]

is this bedroom an addition (remodel) to the house ?

[Cosmo]

The bedroom feels damp.

The humidity in the rest of the house is 50%.

[Cosmo]

No, no addition, no remodel. If we turn off the window unit and use the central air, we can cool the bedroom and the rest of the house down to 69 degrees and 50% humidity even with an outside temperature and humidity of 85/85.

Of course that defeats the purpose of getting the bedroom window unit.

[appl.tech.29501]

So the unit is producing water when the AC is running right? Dripping out of the back of the unit?

[Cosmo]

No, I see very little water coming out the back. Does not look like the coils are frezzing up and there is no water coming into the bedroom. The unit is tilted about 3 degrees toward the outside.

This does not make sense to me. It was always my understanding that the very process of cooloing was going to cause condensation of the moisture in the air. How in the world is the unit able to cool (and it does) but I see very little moisture (on a very humid day) coming from the unit?