Just the other morning I woke up dripping in sweat with a splitting headache (precursors to heat stroke) because I had failed to turn on the AC.
Here are some of the challenges I face:
1. My spouse is always cold and likes to sleep with two bear-skin-like thick fleece blankets, even in mid August (while I sleep under a thin sheet). So it’s always a compromise where neither person is comfortable.
2. The ubiquitous Ductless, Mini-Split AC: If you lower the temperature to where you actually want it, the room gets freezing cold but dry. If you try to turn it down to a milder temperature, however, it cycles on and off blowing out the accumulated water on the fan making the air very clammy/moldy. Both conditions are hell on my throat, especially when sleeping!
Also, with the small size of the Japanese rooms, the units are usually located in each room, or close enough, so the air is blowing right on you. This also tears up my throat at night.
3. Using a humidifier, while keeping the AC pumped up to where I want it, would seem to be self-defeating since the whole point of this kind of air conditioner is to suck the humidity out of the air. Any experiences to the contrary?
I realize this is a kind of a “first world problem”. So please don’t give me TOO much of a hard time.
Thanks for the heads up.