On 1/2/2013 9:17 PM, Attila Iskander wrote:

"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
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" Attila Iskander" wrote in message
... Need to measure water
consumption and waste from Aprilaire 600 humidifier

It uses heated water and is dumping at least 10+ gallons down the
drain, and not doing much to humidify house.




Look for a damper, which might be closed. Normally, those things do
a terrific job. Might also need a new media pad. Or, the water may
be dropping through, without wetting the media. Or the media may be
clogged with minerals. Turn the humidistat up a little?

Pad is new as of (very late) October when furnace was inspected and
started up for winter Damper is wide open Control has been slowly
turned up to highest level Humidity level never went past 30% (42 was
optimal last year)

The whole install is new as of summer of 2010.





You more than likely have a water meter at your water main. If you have
your own well or live in a community where water use is not measured,
ignore everything below:

My water meter looks like an auto speedometer/odometer with a dial and
pointer around the perimeter and some 0-9 number wheels in the middle.
The dial and pointer measures .1 gallon per mark. If you have something
similar, read your water meter, run your furnace for about an hour with
the humidistat set high while you are not otherwise using water in your
house, turn down the furnace or humidistat and read the meter again.
All consumption will be from the humidifier unless you have a plumbing
leak somewhere. Output, as you already described, can be determined by
measuring the discharge. The difference will be evaporation (probably
hard to detect unless you do a relatively long measurement, as you are
probably putting less than 15 gallons of water vapor into the air in 24hrs.