On Thursday, 20 September 2018 17:44:33 UTC+1, wrote:
nt:

"electronically controlled units work much better than mechanical humidistats "

Until they break. A mechanical one has a strand of soemthing in it that can be replaced, the spring can be cut down or stretched to adjust if it changes over time. The corroded wires can be replaced.

have you rebuilt a mechanical humidistat? It's nothing like as easy as a bimetal stat.


If the chip goes bad and it has a number on it like XD333YTOT23AAA1902**/A to buy a whole new dehumidifier and throw that one in the dumpster, Freon and all.

And they probably get a ****ing energy star compliance certification. And your money went to a country that uses predatory trade practices. And the landfills fill up until this country is nothing but a landfill.

But it's more important to hold it between 71 and 75 % because 69 and 77 % would be totally unacceptable.

Right.

That's not Luddite, that's green and it is actually conservative, like to conserve.

electronic RH control has more chance of surviving long term than a bit of plastic with almost no movement and almost no tension operating a switch mechanism that's barely functional because it's hopelessly weakly operated.


NT