The solution? If you plan to keep using your dryer and of course, you should , pay attention to routine maintenance and follow some best practices to protect your clothes. Yes, dryers can be hot. They work by pulling air in, heating it, and tumbling wet clothes through the warm air.
Most dryers get rid of moisture by venting it to the outside. The best dryers are capable of drying your clothes quickly at a temperature that is hot, but not so hot that it scorches or damages them. Dryers running at lower temperatures have proven themselves to be just as fast and effective at drying clothes as dryers that run hot.
The brands claim to be as concerned as we are about fabric care. So, since your dryer was not designed to run hotter, here are some other reasons a dryer might overheat, along with some regular maintenance you can do to prevent it.
The U. Fire Administration says that failing to clean the dryer causes 2, dryer fires a year. For more accurate results, Exergen recommends that the user apply a black crayon or marker to a spot of a size larger than the area being measured by the scanner.
I used this method only where the black spot would not cause complaints from the homeowner - that is, inside of a utility room at the dryer vent duct near the bottom of the dryer. Other locations such as the dryer interior were not blackened. I think that the temperature sensor's close proximity to the vent interior surface and dark colour of the interior of the dryer exhaust vent lint-coated with gray lint may have made those measurements more-accurate. The gas fired residential clothes dryer actual field-installation measurements made at a single dryer during hot weather in New York in July, produced results similar to the theoretical and laboratory results and conclusions of Bonaccorso et als and other experts.
Longer periods of direct sun will produce higher temperatures on the roof surface. I suspect that high roof temperatures contributed to the high clothes dryer vent temperatures measured at the wall exhaust.
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Apologies for the delay. Just ask us! Search the InspectApedia website. Comment Form is loading comments Answer by Pamelabud The temperature on a normally functioning electric dryer is degrees Celsisus, providing that the lint filters are cleaning, not blocked and functioning correctly.
If the lint filters are partially blocked the temperature will rise significantly. Answer by Anonymous. I question the figure C add a comment. Answer by Kozmo If your drying is having problem heating check the coils. Answer by Jessica40 Normally a dryer's tumbler should reach a temperature of degrees Celsius, or Fahrenheit. However, if the lint traps are blocked, they have been shown to exceed degrees Celsius Fahrenheit.
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