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Humidity Detecting Switch
I've seen $250 humidity detecting fans (Broan?). I have a timer on my bath
fans, and motion detectors on my hallway lights (installed when my dad was dying), so I can't believe they can't make a wall switch which detects humidity. ANyone see one? Couldn't find one with google. Besides the bathrooms, I'd wonder if I can't have one for the house when I'm away and don't want to have the heat or cool on just to prevent mildew. I hadn't used cooling in years and the upstairs duct perspired onto my ceiling. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
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Humidity Detecting Switch
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Humidity Detecting Switch
On Jun 10, 7:15*am, wrote:
I've seen $250 humidity detecting fans (Broan?). I have a timer on my bath fans, and motion detectors on my hallway lights (installed when my dad was dying), so I can't believe they can't make a wall switch which detects humidity. ANyone see one? Couldn't find one with google. *Besides the bathrooms, I'd wonder if I can't have one for the house when I'm away and don't want to have the heat or cool on just to prevent mildew. I hadn't used cooling in years and the upstairs duct perspired onto my ceiling. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - = - *Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist * *http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm...k.com/vasjpan2 * ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. *Everything fully disclaimed..}--- * *[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] *[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] Mold in a shower is normal and easily killed by laundry bleach, mild elsewhere is caused by water, either leaks or condensation in winter. A humidity fan wont fix what you think it will and will trigger on a rainy day bringing in more humidity. |
Humidity Detecting Switch
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wrote: I've seen $250 humidity detecting fans (Broan?). I have a timer on my bath fans, and motion detectors on my hallway lights (installed when my dad was dying), so I can't believe they can't make a wall switch which detects humidity. ANyone see one? Couldn't find one with google. Besides the bathrooms, I'd wonder if I can't have one for the house when I'm away and don't want to have the heat or cool on just to prevent mildew. I hadn't used cooling in years and the upstairs duct perspired onto my ceiling. Google on Humidistat. -- *Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
Humidity Detecting Switch
*+-Google on Humidistat. Thanks! - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
Humidity Detecting Switch
On Jun 10, 8:15*am, wrote:
I've seen $250 humidity detecting fans (Broan?). I have a timer on my bath fans, and motion detectors on my hallway lights (installed when my dad was dying), so I can't believe they can't make a wall switch which detects humidity. ANyone see one? Couldn't find one with google. *Besides the bathrooms, I'd wonder if I can't have one for the house when I'm away and don't want to have the heat or cool on just to prevent mildew. I hadn't used cooling in years and the upstairs duct perspired onto my ceiling. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - = - *Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist * *http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm...k.com/vasjpan2 * ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. *Everything fully disclaimed..}--- * *[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] *[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] Order this one: http://www.ontimemall.com/nortec-115...midistat..html It's on sale for $930 but you won't have to spend $250 on a new fan. |
Humidity Detecting Switch
Understood. Most of my mold problems are nowhere near the shower.
(Pointing, siding shingles and duct perspiration might be implicated.) When my mom was alive, we never had mold in the house. After my dad also died, it blossomed. I stopped using heat and cool because I essentially "borrowed" it form my godparents upstairs. I had by heat at 57F and cool at 87F and it almost never turned on. I also kept the rooms locked up because I was rarely home. In fact, I have learned over the past six months, when I sudeenly found myself spending more time working from home, to push the temperature duing rain so as to trigger more ventillation. I live where the East and FLushing rivers empty into Long Island sound, and I am at 45ft elevation on a hill that peaks at 150, but zero elevation is on the other side of my block, probably swamp landfill. Last year, was especially humid, our local beaches were closed, dark green from storm drain overflow. *+-Mold in a shower is normal and easily killed by laundry bleach, mild *+-elsewhere is caused by water, either leaks or condensation in winter. *+-A humidity fan wont fix what you think it will and will trigger on a *+-rainy day bringing in more humidity. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
Humidity Detecting Switch
way cool!
- = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] |
Humidity Detecting Switch
On Jun 10, 7:15*am, wrote:
I've seen $250 humidity detecting fans (Broan?). I have a timer on my bath fans, and motion detectors on my hallway lights (installed when my dad was dying), so I can't believe they can't make a wall switch which detects humidity. ANyone see one? Couldn't find one with google. *Besides the bathrooms, I'd wonder if I can't have one for the house when I'm away and don't want to have the heat or cool on just to prevent mildew. I hadn't used cooling in years and the upstairs duct perspired onto my ceiling. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * - = - *Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist * *http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm...k.com/vasjpan2 * ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. *Everything fully disclaimed..}--- * *[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] *[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] Do you ever just run your furnace fan for air circulation, without heating or cooling. ALso, do you do a lot of cooking to raise the humidity that high? |
Humidity Detecting Switch
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I've seen $250 humidity detecting fans (Broan?). I have a timer on my bath fans, and motion detectors on my hallway lights (installed when my dad was dying), so I can't believe they can't make a wall switch which detects humidity. ANyone see one? Couldn't find one with google. Besides the bathrooms, I'd wonder if I can't have one for the house when I'm away and don't want to have the heat or cool on just to prevent mildew. I hadn't used cooling in years and the upstairs duct perspired onto my ceiling. - = - Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus, BioStrategist http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2 ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}--- [Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards] [Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos] Try the Granger Company. Dump the home repair NG when posting here if you want a civil reply. |
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Humidity Detecting Switch
On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:56:13 -0400, Tony wrote:
wrote: I've seen $250 humidity detecting fans (Broan?). I have a timer on my bath fans, and motion detectors on my hallway lights (installed when my dad was dying), so I can't believe they can't make a wall switch which detects humidity. ANyone see one? Couldn't find one with google. Besides the bathrooms, I'd wonder if I can't have one for the house when I'm away and don't want to have the heat or cool on just to prevent mildew. I hadn't used cooling in years and the upstairs duct perspired onto my ceiling. I bought 2 army surplus one years ago, high quality stuff! I used it to totally rebuild a donut proofing box because none of the original parts were available. (the donut proofing box circulates warm humid air around the raw donuts so they rise without drying out). A fan, a stainless steel container like in a salad bar with a generic water heating element installed in it, the humidistat, and a larger container of water to siphon water in the small "boiler". Sorry I can't recall where I bought them. To *measure* humidity, the easiest I've found are the HIH-4000 series from Honeywell. Vout is very nearly linear against percent relative humidity (a second-order fit improves it a little at the cost of some computations). Feed it 5 VDC, read with an ADC, simple. For a setpoint, though, the GE HS12 or HS15 are cheaper. They must be driven by AC (no DC bias allowed) and the impedance range is over 4 decades, so it is not just a simple ADC hookup. But just to get a trip point reading would be fairly straightforward. -- Rich Webb Norfolk, VA |
Humidity Detecting Switch
In article , Tony wrote:
wrote: I've seen $250 humidity detecting fans (Broan?). I have a timer on my bath fans, and motion detectors on my hallway lights (installed when my dad was dying), so I can't believe they can't make a wall switch which detects humidity. ANyone see one? Couldn't find one with google. Besides the bathrooms, I'd wonder if I can't have one for the house when I'm away and don't want to have the heat or cool on just to prevent mildew. I hadn't used cooling in years and the upstairs duct perspired onto my ceiling. I bought 2 army surplus one years ago, high quality stuff! I used it to totally rebuild a donut proofing box because none of the original parts were available. (the donut proofing box circulates warm humid air around the raw donuts so they rise without drying out). A fan, a stainless steel container like in a salad bar with a generic water heating element installed in it, the humidistat, and a larger container of water to siphon water in the small "boiler". Sorry I can't recall where I bought them. Yes I probably bought the same ones years ago. Wrapped in sealed bags. I just tried using one in my bathroom. They are not reliable near the extremes. You cannot set it to 80 % hummidity. The horse hair mechanism is too critical up there. I was able to set it to about 60%, and one rainy day it just came on. i mounted it uo in the air box which I had taken out the fan and used an in-line fan for noise control.Its works OK with the Dew Stop condensation sensor, but I really need more CFM. Most mechanical sensors have the wrong connection for fan use. greg |
Humidity Detecting Switch
In my opinion you are all wet, at temperature you have outline Humidistat
would be useless unless you have Dehumidifier run at all times, and at 57 Deg. F not likely that you will get below 50% rh so all you doing is wasting your time but lots luck. "Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message ... In article , wrote: I've seen $250 humidity detecting fans (Broan?). I have a timer on my bath fans, and motion detectors on my hallway lights (installed when my dad was dying), so I can't believe they can't make a wall switch which detects humidity. ANyone see one? Couldn't find one with google. Besides the bathrooms, I'd wonder if I can't have one for the house when I'm away and don't want to have the heat or cool on just to prevent mildew. I hadn't used cooling in years and the upstairs duct perspired onto my ceiling. Google on Humidistat. -- *Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
Humidity Detecting Switch
On 6/11/2010 4:01 PM, GregS wrote:
... Most mechanical sensors have the wrong connection for fan use. I posted a link to one with a relay that sells for $40. Why won't that do? Jerry -- Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get. ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ |
Humidity Detecting Switch
On Jun 10, 8:15*am, wrote:
I've seen $250 humidity detecting fans (Broan?). I have a timer on my bath fans, and motion detectors on my hallway lights (installed when my dad was snip. I have seen a humidty switch with a central AC theromstat. It was in an older home. I am not sure if they still offer them. It was either Broan or Honeywell. Frank Lardino |
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