[ale] OT-humidity, was: Re: Best way to get dual display working (take 2k)

[Paul Cartwright]

On 01/06/2011 10:07 AM, Scott Castaline wrote:
> Just read your humidifier comments. I used to live in Florida and had 
> participated in a demo/study at one of my jobs where we worked inside a 
> factory/plant environment. Even though the outside air/humidity was 
> around 67% - 80% normally we still had static problems inside. People 
> tend to think that just because they live in a humid sub-tropical 
> environment that's the outside, inside you normally have air 
> conditioning, which is essentially a big dehumidifier. The study showed 
> that our inside humidity was no more than 50%. Now a days those 
> environment systems usually also have humidity controls as well as 
> temperature.

I'm not sure I understand what you meant me to understand with that :)

I have a dehumidifier in my basement that takes water OUT of the air,
dumping it into a 30 gallon trash can that I empty once a week or so,
setting it on 50%. It runs in the basement which isn't heated, but the
furnace is there. Once the A/C is shut off, I wait til the heat has come
on, then fire up the DEhumidifier, also keeping it around 50%.. I think
it was 32% when I first turned on the humidifier.


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