[CAUT] Dampp-Chaser - half system installation...

[Jeff Tanner]

I'd have to know more about the climate history of the room as to why it was determined no dehumidification was needed, but I would have installed the 2-tank system in a C-7.  One tank in a C-7 is kind of like putting a VW Beetle engine in a Corvette.
Tanner in Caraliner
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Crane, Alan 
  To: caut at ptg.org 
  Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:07 PM
  Subject: [CAUT] Dampp-Chaser - half system installation...


  I have a different Dampp-Chaser question.

  Do any of you install only the humidity half of the system under certain circumstances?

  If so, what are your decision criteria??

  I recently had the opportunity to check out a new Dampp-Chaser installation (by someone else) on a brand new Yamaha C-7 in a multi-purpose civic center type institutional building (the piano is on stage in a large performance/lecture hall).

  I was admiring the very clean, orderly installation until I noticed there were *no* de-humidifier rods installed… none at all!

  The water tank & wick system was there, as was the humidistat.  They were obviously very recently purchased from Dampp-Chaser (not old left-overs).

  I called the store that sold the piano (and whose tech installed the stage truck & Dampp-Chaser system) and got a complete run-around!!

  I’m at a loss to explain the situation. 

  I know that some really humid (coastal) climates call for installations without the humidifier part of the system but this is a new one for me.

  Can someone educate me on good reasons for something like this??

   

   

  Regards,

   

  Alan B. Crane, RPT

  School of Music

  Wichita State University

  alan.crane at wichita.edu

    
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