Humidity Re: <VV> Re: GARAGE IDEAS

[FrankCB at aol.com]

Ken,
    FIVE to TEN HP!!!!!   Talk about  OVERKILL!!   I use a simple (but well 
made) low HP attic fan that  blows air FROM the house into the attic and out 
the vents at each end.  I  open the window(s) at varying amounts depending on 
where I want the outside air  to flow in.  I also use a set of 3 wireless Radio 
Shack remote temp. and  humidity meters that tell me on the portable readout 
unit that I have inside the  house just what outside and basement conditions 
are.  The fan also has  a thermostat so I can leave it on all night, and if the 
temp of the air drops  too far, it will shut itself off.  We've had this fan 
setup for over 38  years and it convinced my wife and me that we really didn't 
need central  A/C since we could readily cool off the house most nights.  When 
we  went to bed, we kept the bedroom window open so a breeze flowed over  the 
bed all night long, unless the temp dropped too far thereby automatically  
shutting off the fan.  The fan requires only periodic cleaning and  lubricating 
and normally runs at the lowest of the 3 speeds so the sound is not  audible 
outside the room that it's in.
    In more recent years, we did install a window A/C  in the bedroom for 
those infrequent nights when the outside humidity stayed high  all night.  The 
important thing is to have INDICATORS that show  outside and inside humidity 
levels so you can decide what to do to mitigate the  problem.
    Frank "likes gauges"  Burkhard      
 
In a message dated 8/12/2007 9:59:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time,  
deltainc at grm.net writes:

Of  course, kinda like cooling a corvair ....... if you gauge the inside  and
outside humidity, you might find that over a day or three, you have  a  "
relatively dryer spell" outside ... then you can just blow with a  big (
centrifugal fan so you can pretend its a vair turbocharger ... these  big
mommas can be bought used from Iowa corn dryer farmer ... mine is a 5  or 10
horse unit for our 3200 sq ft shop ... sounds like a tornado, and  will
exchange all the air in about 2 minutes ..... ) fan ... ie, blow the  moist
er air out and suck in some dry er air ... no need to condense it or  run it
over expensive ice tubes or whatever .... just get rid of it and let  it
water your lawn or something .

to be neater yet, buy an obsolete  ( last year model ) PC for $50, to do this
with ... maybe a cheapo PLC with  all those yes/no inputs and electrical
output relays to play with ... ebay  for almost free for a 15 year old one
.... and set up a Magic Climate  Control system to amaze your friends ... how
else are you gonn " one-up "  the Lone Haranguer etc. with his Garage Mahal
...

Just think:  program:
If inside humididity is higher than outside humidididy, turn on  fan.
If inside H is same or less than than outside H, turn off fan.
If  inside H reaches [ panic setting here ], turn on inside  air fans to  get
moisture into air, then dehydrator system ON.  Catch this pure  water in a
little jar to put in your concourse Vair battery.

If time  is 1200<>1700 hrs  am , and [ incremented time ] turn on  garage
lights for 2 mins and then turn off then increment turn on time x  hours to
confuse burglar spotters ...

such fun, oh, I guess it could  also wash and wax your vair ....

As you might remember, I have been  advocating on the vair to just blow the
hot air out of the car; " wee don'  need no steenkin' compressor fan ... "
corollary::  MORE FINS= less  fan power needed ...

reargards, ken campbell,  deltawerkes







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