Say goodbye to over-dry clothes by using your dryer's sensor setting instead of a timed cycle.
　
Dryness sensors avoid over-drying by automatically shut... read full tip

Say goodbye to over-dry clothes by using your dryer's sensor setting instead of a timed cycle.
　
Dryness sensors avoid over-drying by automatically shutting off the heat when the clothes are dry. Over-drying wastes energy, and can cause premature fabric wear.

If you normally set your dryer to run for one hour or more, you can conserve 10 to 15 percent of your drying energy by choosing the less-dry or normal-dry options. For an average household, this could equal savings of up to $30 per year.

If just 10 percent of households with dryers used a sensor setting instead of a timed cycle, the total annual energy savings could exceed $180 million-equivalent to the energy that could be saved if two million households chose to abandon their electric clothes dryer for a chic solar-powered clothesline.

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