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 > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months > FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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