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.

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[Jerry Avins]

On 6/10/2010 8:15 AM, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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 doubt you'll ever find one. To detect humidity, air must circulate
over the sensor. I don't see how to do that in a jamb box. A quick
search* turns up
http://store.antx.com/browseproducts/Adjustable-humidity-switch.html

Jerry
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[Doug Miller]

In article <huql06$s0r$1@reader1.panix.com>, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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 'humidistat'.

 

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:15:02 +0000 (UTC),
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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.

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http://www.google.com/products?hl=en&q=humidistat&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=jdoQTLiqOYSKlweOy7ngBw&sa=X&oi=product_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CDsQrQQwAA

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=humidistat


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[Jon Danniken]

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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.

Googling "wall mount humidistat" will return hits like the following:

Broan DH100W
Honeywell H46C
Honeywell H8908B
Honeywell H600A
Ranco J10-821

Jon

 

[PeterD]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:15:02 +0000 (UTC),
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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.

There are many humdiity detectors available today. None as a switch,
as they require a good air flow (and a switch won't have any air-flow)
but you can mount them in unobtrusive places (such as near the fan) if
you wanted, and use the wall switch as a master on/off.

 

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:01:20 -0700 (PDT), ransley
<Mark_Ransley@Yahoo.com> wrote:

On Jun 10, 7:15 am, vjp2...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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.

                                    - = -
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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.

6 of one, 6 of the other, then, on that day.

And the air intake will at lest be distributed instead of all
in one area, so it will disperse its humidity faster.


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[Dave Plowman (News)]

In article <huql06$s0r$1@reader1.panix.com>,
<vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com> 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.

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[ransley]

On Jun 10, 7:15 am, vjp2...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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 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]

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.

 

[GregS]

In article <huql06$s0r$1@reader1.panix.com>, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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 have been using one for 3 months and I like it. I also had trouble finding it.
Think DEW.

http://www.dewstop.com/dewstop_switches.html

greg

 

*+-Google on Humidistat.

Thanks!


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[DerbyDad03]

On Jun 10, 8:15 am, vjp2...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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 http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2
  ---{Nothing herein constitutes advice.  Everything fully disclaimed..}---
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Order this one:

http://www.ontimemall.com/nortec-1151-0142-modulating-duct-mount-humidistat..html

It's on sale for $930 but you won't have to spend $250 on a new fan.

 

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:10:21 +0000 (UTC),
vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

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.

Try taking them outside and leaving them there.



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Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your
wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do
something damned nasty to all three of them.

Pray for Obama : Psalms 109:8

 

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.



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way cool!



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[Alexander]

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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 http://www.facebook.com/vasjpan2
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
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Try the Granger Company. Dump the home repair NG when posting here if
you want a civil reply.

 

[hr(bob) hofmann@att.net]

On Jun 10, 7:15 am, vjp2...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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 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]

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?

 

[Tony]

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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.

 

[Rich Webb]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:56:13 -0400, Tony <tony.miklos@gmail.com> wrote:

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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

 

On Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:56:13 -0400, Tony <tony.miklos@gmail.com>
wrote:

vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com 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

I bet there's holes in it !

Get it ? Doughnuts ? Holes ?

bwahahahah

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.

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'Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints.'
'With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.'
HVAC/R program for Palm PDA's
Free demo online at www.pmilligan.net/palm/
Free 'People finder' program now at www.pmilligan.net/finder.htm

Whenever a Liberal utters the term "Common Sense approach"....grab your
wallet, your ass, and your guns because the sombitch is about to do
something damned nasty to all three of them.

Pray for Obama : Psalms 109:8