What senses the humidity in their humidistats? When my
Kenmore dehumidifier broke I opened it up and found a
plastic strip which apparently is hygroscopic and
expands with humidity, allowing a mechanical switch to
close a circuit and start the compressor. Is it like
this?
Thump
--- pianolover 88 <pianolover88@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have always wondered if the D.C. Humidistat turns
> "off" or goes into a
> kind of "sleep mode", when the correct parameters of
> RH are achieved. Guess
> what/ It stays on 24/7, no matter WHAT the RH! My
> questions were answered
> during a conversation with the good people at
> Dampp-Chaser the other day. I
> asked them why, if the correct RH levels are
> achieved, does the humidistat
> NOT turn off. "Good question", he replied, "we've
> been working on that, and
> hope to have a new humidistat in the near future".
> Quite intersting, isn't
> it? So basically. the humidistat will be CONSTANTLY
> swithing from the
> dehumidifier, to the HUmidifier, when the RH is
> WITHIN the "correct range."
> I find this a pretty bad engineering flaw, and an
> unnecessary drain on the
> system AND the electric bill. But they
> are..."working on it!" How nice.
>
>
> Terry Peterson
>
>
>
>
>
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