As far as I have learned, such a machine can not suck much water out of the room. It can keep the level flat if you breathe hard. If you shower, cook or have multiple people in the room, it's probably struggling a bit with reducing the humidity. If the room temperature is already as low as you want it to and the humidity is too high, you should use the dry mode. :) If the temperature is higher than you want it to be, then it probably doesn't matter whether you use dry mode or cool. In case you expect the temperature to get lower than you want it to, or you are not at home and just want to keep your home free from mold/ humid air, put it in dry. Only if it's certain that you need the cooling, put it in cool. Typically, cool or auto mode cools better than dry mode.

A dry room feels colder because your sweat evaporates faster and that cools you down more. Instead of the a/c cooling you, you're cooling yourself! I think it works by cooling down the pipes inside the wall unit like normal but blowing a lot less air over the fins so that it doesn't cool the room significantly and the air has time to lose its moisture before passing through. It would have been nice to measure what was coming out of the condense pipe while running the experiment. I think the Chinese lady in my local take away did the translation for my Panasonic's installation manual so this is just a guess.

if you live in an area that is humid, especially if it's a seaside area where temperatures are much more regular and even, dry mode can feel almost as good as "air con", but energy consumption can be drastically less.

Apparently dry mode is more cost effective $$. This can help during summer when bills are ridiculous 👍

Just runs the internal blowers much slower to allow it to absorb more moisture from the air. At least this is what my Lennox units do which I believe are Pioneers. Edit: You want the humidity inside to between 35-50%. Above 50% and you can get mold issues, etc. Too low and well wood, leather, some other items can warp, crack, etc. Dry air feels cooler as your skin can evaporate moisture faster which allows your body to cool better.

I live in Bahrain, a tiny island in the Persian Gulf. We get temperatures as high as 55C. I simply let some hot humid air into the office and once I feel it's equal to the temperature outside, I switch on the dry mode and lower the temperature down to 28C. And within a few minutes, I can feel the office space turn really cool and comfortable. Since I have an inverter, I don't have to turn the AC off, I just open the door and let some hot and humid air in once in a while and it works beautifully. I just have to clear the tub for the drainage pipe outside at the end of the day (gets filled to the brim with water).

Never noticed dry mode on my AC. This reaaalllly helped my dust allergy, thanks!

Absolutely disagree with the energy use. I have an energy monitor on my main panel, and there is a drastic difference in energy use between AC mode and dry mode, by a factor of 4. It’s truly amazing, almost just like running it on fan only mode.

My Florida room - all windows .. works perfect on dry mode! It’s cold and not humid! Run. Ceiling fan with it to circulate air - rooms ideal now

I have a Mitsubishi FS series 15k in my garage. Dry mode brings the humidity down from 70s to 44% and feels cooler. I’m waiting on a replacement because right out of the box the main board went bad and was replaced then the compressor won’t go into high mode. So all it does is run slow and steady.

Our humidity setting cools better then the ac setting and saves us hundreds on electric. We are in the Puget sound area in Washington.

Dry mode feels much cooler to me too. Especially when it's 95 outside.

I think either your aircon is low on gas, or maybe your meter is off. It should easily reach 40% humidity in one hour for that small size room. I used two meters from same brand and their difference was 8% and 3degree in temp

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A real de-humidifier will have re-heat. These split units just run the fan at a lower speed and runs the compressor just enough for the indoor coil to reach dew-point temp. It will still cool the air.

Thanks for the info, the comments are very informative .. I live on the Pacific coast of Mexico, Summers here, or at least July - October are hot .. 88-95*F High humidity.. I have a Mirage XLife ELF261H .. I'm going to give the Dry mode a try. I have been running that unit in Cool set to 29c to 31c (32c is the highest you can set the a/c) as if I set it lower it feels too cold to me. If I set it around 30 or so it will cycle the compressor on and off to maintain that temp. .. I figure maybe the temp sensor is simply off or something..) Usually low fan speed. When I set it to Dry it automatically went to 25*c on the unit and remote and went to low fan. I am able to adjust the temp, not the fan speed.. The manual says when you set the unit to Dry it will automatically sense the room temp and adjust the temp setting accordingly. SO maybe that 25*c is the real room temp.. which does sound more realistic imo. I'll let it run on dry for a few days to see how it works

What a nice guy! Thanks from the Upper Blue Mountains, Australia. 😊✌

I live in Upstate NY and we have unpredictable weather. Hot and humid summers, hot and dry summers, cold and dry winters, cool but humid spring and autumn. we have it all. I love the flexability of my mini split (I have a whole house system, two 48,000 BTU hyper heat condensers one for downstairs one for upstairs, 8 heads total) I can handle humidity with dry mode, dry heat with cool mode and of course heat in the winter. I will agree dry mode feels really really cold... not sure why. Only thing i wish it did was humidify in the winter as it gets really dry in my house.

I run my AC in Dry Mode in summer as it's 85% humidity outside. My Midea allows me to set the temperture in that mode also

Great info thanks! I thought it was funny that you thought 64 percent was “muggy”! I want to get DOWN to 64 percent! Australian Queensland summer it’s about 88 percent. 😖

love your video, very helpful but the music is so distracting and loud

If its feeling colder, I think you need to adjust temperature up

good job Bro.....Helpful info is always needed.

You want to keep your humidity below 55 percent. If it feels cooler because there’s less humidity than raise the temperature. Humidity above 55 percent will cause biological growth like mold and mildew

Try using Cool mode and use the low fan speed. Not sure if that makes the difference between that and Dry mode.

The trick is to use dehumidifier mode for about an hour when it’s muggy and the humidity is high. The room tends to get cooler when doing this and then out on the air conditioner on.

My input after testing & evaluating. Dry Mode will minimise fan speed so as not to cool the environment too much, just tipping over. But it is still cooling - kind of has to be, otherwise the water won't condense, to collect & drip away outside. My unit seems to have a fixed target of 50% humidity. The odd thing though - is you can still 'set' the temperature. If this is higher than ambient - the unit will enter heating mode! I don't think it can be dehumidifying in that mode. I'm assuming that they're assuming that the adding of heat will automatically have the effect of dehumidifying - the way central heating (in the UK) is supposed to.

Are you sure your mini split isn't too large for your room? Having too big of a unit for the room will cause humidity issues. If your room is smaller than 350 to 400 square feet, a 9k unit is too big and will cause humidity issues! They make a 6k unit, but they are hard to find. But the 6k units are better for smaller rooms

I left mine on dehumidify while I was out of town. Yes, they filled the buckets outside with water, but the humidity inside went up drastically. My bucket dehumidifier absolutely takes the humidity down, but it struggles around 50%. This is the south eastern United States almost a sub tropical rainforest, but I really do not want to get mold. Also, the dehumidifier setting all these mini splits seem to produce less water than when they are on regular air conditioning setting, I put watering jugs and buckets under the outlet outside. They get full very quickly but again dehumidifier. Seems like it just cools the room down I don’t know if there’s a difference . Either way these things are awesome! These Willis energy is at a window unit and they don’t struggle, nice and quiet oscillating vans are great too Especially how quietly they run outside compared to a heat pump or window unit. They can just kind of run smoothly. He barely hear it, but they do their thing I think is you’re fantastic but not a good way to remove excess moisture from your home

I enjoyed your video in terms of the info but a small bit of advice when you edit your videos set the background music volume down a lot from where it's at you have it very loud and it almost made me leave the video its just so loud. Anyways make the background music the background and not overpowering to the video. Anyways thanks for your video.👍✌️

Thank for the info. I just installed a mini-split two weeks ago and was wondering what the Dry Mode does…..

Thank you, really wanted to know.

The music is way too loud but thank you for the video

I smell mold when I turn my mini split on. Why?

If you use it in a 12A zone with 90 percent humidity, water eventually will drip from the split unit on yo your floor like a eater leak.Get a separate dedicated dehumidifier. Split units dry mode is not good for high temperatures and high humidity.

But you still didn't explain how dry mode functions.

If I use any mode but dry mode my humidity creeps up like crazy. If I use dry mode the temperature goes super low. I'm in Puerto Rico near the ocean so the Humidity is really high.

I don't think running dry mode in hot weather saves money as the compressor, the main energy user, still has to run to cool the air

Hi from Australia. I was just wondering if you can keep it running on the dry mode all day? It’s always humid on the mid north coast of N.S.W. When I turn the dry mode on and have the fan on the 3 ( the second highest setting) the water from the water outlet hose just pours out at a small constant stream. Is that too much water coming out or is that normal ? And can I keep it like that all day. Anyway to you and your family have a great Christmas Day. 🇦🇺 ✝️ 👍🏻 ✝️ 🇦🇺

I never understood how it was possible for a ductless mini split to dehumidify, how does the moisture move from inside the room to somewhere else? I would understand if the air was coming from somewhere else we’re going somewhere else I just don’t get it in this video did not explain it. I am thinking the dehumidify option is just something else, yes, water drips out of the condensation outside from outside moisture from outside air. But how does the inside moisture level go down if there is no transfer of inside and outside air at all?

We have had our system for a year. 4 Heads heat & cool our little house. With solar our monthly electric bill averages 65$ a month.

using my minisplit in ac mode seems to increase my humidity in one of my rooms. using dry mode decreases humidity in my room but it lowers room temp very rapidly to around 63 degrees in my room. could this be because my split unit is on a brick platform outside that is off level?

Thanks for the infoWill truths out

Currently where I am it is 99 % humidity. That's australia for ya.

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Thanks for the video, my question is why does the dry fan setting seem so cold. It almost puts out more cold air than the air condition mode. Thanks Alison from Seattle

Hey comments section, I have a single compressor for 4 wall units, one of which is in my basement which is cooler than the rest of the house but humid and sometimes gets water. Do you think I could run Dry Mode on the basement unit while running AC mode for the other 3? Haven't got a clear answer on this and can't tell if it works.

Is the moisture then delivered through the outside drain pipe? Nothing to empty? Thanks

Hi Located in south Florida and have a single Mitsubishi compressor running two heads in a small space 550sq ft. (second head was installed to purposefully push air into the back area based on configuration of walls). I have had some mold issues and I had both heads deep cleaned and now I am trouble shooting with the dry mode. I set both units to dry mode with automatic fan and saw some reduction (cool as well). But humidity still 69-70. An ac friend said too much ac for area and recommends only running one head at a time at dry mode then again on cool mode and see what happens . In some of the replies below they say run fan at higher speed to pull more moisture out during dry mode. Does it matter if I have the larger compressor and only run one head or the other? Thoughts?

I have three heads running on one outdoor unit, am I able to have my basement one set on dry mode while my other two upstairs set on cold? If both modes run the condenser I don’t see how I wouldn’t be able to.

how long should you use the dry mode? As long as it's raining (we're in a tropical country btw)? thanks for this!

Oddly enough I live in the Pacific NorthWest and when I run mine in "cool" mode, it doesn't seem to condense much at all. But it's not too hot yet and my internal humidity is showing between 36 and 40%. could that be it?

I don’t have a Mitsubishi but I didn’t know what dry mode was till you said it

Thanks mate Edit: can you run dry mode for 5-8hours?

Do you have a wet or dry humidity in your area usually ? Where I’m at wet too wet like 70 to 80 to 90 humidity wet.

How do you tell the system what your humidity goal is?

Hi from Britain, I've just got my system set up , dry mode doesn't make the outdoor fan work , any idea's why ? Heat , cool & fan only mode work as normal , dry mode just appears to work the indoor fan

Would u have fans on to or just dry mode

Can you run dry mode in the winter season ?

I was having problems with my split system, it wasnt getting cool at all, I ran the dry mode on all night and now the lines are cold are seems to be working 3x better

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DRY MODE does NOT effect the temperature of the room; it reduces the humidity which makes it FEEL COOLER. If the temperature outside is 73 degrees Fahrenheit & the humidity is 73% or above, the DRY MODE will make the inside of your home feel like 73 degrees. The “temperature reading” on the remote has NOTHING to do with the relative humidity in your home. So if you want your home cooler than 73 degrees Fahrenheit the COOL MODE should be on whatever temperature you want (72 or less) & that will take care of BOTH the temperature & humidity at a much higher electrical usage/cost. FYI: July 4th weekend here on the east coast.

I ran dry mode tonight and it shuts off after 20m or so. Is that normal?

How do you set the humidity % in dry mode? My remote control doesn't give me that option.

Thanks. I’ve been searching the internet to figure out how to switch our Mitsubishi heat pump to “Dry”. The instructions aren’t very helpful. Our thermostat/control is wall mounted. I wonder if you have any ideas. Thanks.

Annoying music but good info

When is the better time to use dry mode rainy or summer season in a tropical country

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Where does the water go?

Can you do this again without thd annoying music?

Please leave the music off. It’s so distracting. I’m here for info not music.

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Gave up with the music playing. Your commentary would have been enough

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