Comment by HWR_14
25 days ago
It's not just moisture sensing. Modern dryers also use patterns to prevent shrinking in terms of reducing the heat and then bringing it back as opposed to a constant temperature until dry.
25 days ago
It's not just moisture sensing. Modern dryers also use patterns to prevent shrinking in terms of reducing the heat and then bringing it back as opposed to a constant temperature until dry.
Unless the load is very small this doesn't really do much - water evaporates and uses however much heat the dryer can put out. It is only near the end of the cycle where this can make a difference in most cases.
The whole point is that the amount of heat the dryer puts out goes to zero/very low amount for a period of time. So the evaporation stops and the cloth I guess has some time to make smaller adjustments? Then the heat resumes. I don't understand why it works, but I do know modern dryers do it.