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Awesome! How would this work for homes that require intense dehumidification? Where we live it reaches 99% relative humidity every day of the year and you need multiple dehumidifiers around the house or a central dehumidifier connected to the furnace. Would a separate dehumidifier be able to connect to this system? Or would it be able to handle the dehumidification on its own?

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The Electric Air system can provide a lot of dehumidification. For your specific situation dedicated dehumidifiers are probably the right solution, unless you need a fair amount of cooling in addition to the dehumidification. This is because for purely dehumidification you need some reheat after chilling the air to condenser water out. With a dedicated dehumidifier you get this for free from the condenser on the other side of your refrigeration cycle. In the Electric Air system the backup strip heaters provide the reheat in the air handler, but using them a lot is expensive.

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