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SS32
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Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity
#11306616 - 10/23/09 02:30 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Did I punch too many holes? It's hovering ~80% RH
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: SS32]
#11306688 - 10/23/09 02:41 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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First thing to do is throw that digital hygrometer away. Second thing is make sure there are hole on the bottom and the tub is raised so those holes can breath. CH
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: CH HELL]
#11306720 - 10/23/09 02:46 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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It's raised and has holes in the bottom. I have an analogue hygrometer but it's non adjustable and reads 60% at 100% RH. I'm too lazy to go get a better one.
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: CH HELL]
#11306743 - 10/23/09 02:49 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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CH HELL said: First thing to do is throw that digital hygrometer away. CH
Are you one of those simpletons? Welcome to my Ignore list. The idea that all digital hygrometers are garbage- without regard to manufacture or calibration- is pernicious nonsense that has no place in a discussion of science. There are good digital instruments, there are bad analog ones. Either way, it's a poor workman that blames his tools.
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: Doc_T]
#11306766 - 10/23/09 02:53 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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are them holes 1/4 inch they look too big
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: Doc_T]
#11307010 - 10/23/09 03:36 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Doc_T said:
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CH HELL said: First thing to do is throw that digital hygrometer away. CH
Are you one of those simpletons? Welcome to my Ignore list. The idea that all digital hygrometers are garbage- without regard to manufacture or calibration- is pernicious nonsense that has no place in a discussion of science. There are good digital instruments, there are bad analog ones. Either way, it's a poor workman that blames his tools.
I agree, but shouldn't you ignore RR also? He's the one who started this chorus of "digital hygrometers = rape of newborn babies." That's why everyone repeats it with such impunity... because RR says it.
SS32, those holes DO look big. But your first concern should be an innacurate hygrometer. You can also try taping up some of those holes for a humidity increase, but not until you're sure your humidity is really a problem.
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: SS32]
#11307050 - 10/23/09 03:42 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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what is the RH% in the room the shotgun FC is in?
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: cyb3rtr0n]
#11307316 - 10/23/09 04:27 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Digital hygrometers tend to get condensation on their transducers at the high humidity we run at and then you can't trust their readings. I even have one that cost $250 and it reads 80% at 99%. Most growers don't even bother with a hygrometer if they're running a shotgun terrarium built per the tek. RR
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: RogerRabbit]
#11307352 - 10/23/09 04:33 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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i grew awsome shrooms in one of those... its pretty tight, i could only get 4 cakes in there comfortably...5 was a stretch i bought a bigger one, but yea... are your holes 1/4"? i staggered the holes when i made mine so they didnt line up perfectly like that...you could try taping some holes up and seeing if that does anything or tape some up and drill others next to them...
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: Doc_T]
#11308429 - 10/23/09 07:58 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Doc_T said:
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CH HELL said: First thing to do is throw that digital hygrometer away. CH
Are you one of those simpletons? Welcome to my Ignore list. The idea that all digital hygrometers are garbage- without regard to manufacture or calibration- is pernicious nonsense that has no place in a discussion of science. There are good digital instruments, there are bad analog ones. Either way, it's a poor workman that blames his tools.
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: tall dwarf]
#11308462 - 10/23/09 08:05 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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tall dwarf said: I agree, but shouldn't you ignore RR also? He's the one who started this chorus of "digital hygrometers = rape of newborn babies." That's why everyone repeats it with such impunity... because RR says it.
SS32, those holes DO look big. But your first concern should be an innacurate hygrometer. You can also try taping up some of those holes for a humidity increase, but not until you're sure your humidity is really a problem.
Are you saying digitals work? Or just kissing RR ass, it can't be both and you used both in one paragraph? CH
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: CH HELL]
#11309869 - 10/24/09 02:21 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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CH HELL said:
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tall dwarf said: I agree, but shouldn't you ignore RR also? He's the one who started this chorus of "digital hygrometers = rape of newborn babies." That's why everyone repeats it with such impunity... because RR says it.
SS32, those holes DO look big. But your first concern should be an innacurate hygrometer. You can also try taping up some of those holes for a humidity increase, but not until you're sure your humidity is really a problem.
Are you saying digitals work? Or just kissing RR ass, it can't be both and you used both in one paragraph? CH
Yes I'm saying digitals work and no I'm not kissing RR's ass. (just the opposite if you read it carefully)
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: tall dwarf]
#11309996 - 10/24/09 03:05 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Digital hygrometers tend to get condensation on their transducers at the high humidity we run at and then you can't trust their readings. I even have one that cost $250 and it reads 80% at 99%.
Do you happen to know what sort of sensor it uses? I have been doing some research on humidity sensors. At least from this article, it appears as though capacitive sensors are fairly highly resistant to extreme humidity and thermal conductive humidity sensors seem to be almost immune, while resistive humidity sensors seem quite prone to error when condensation forms on them.
Sure, even the humidity resistant sensors will have a much greater update delay when actively condensed, but I really think the thermal conductive ones show a lot of promise.
http://www.sensorsmag.com/sensors/humidity-moisture/choosing-a-humidity-sensor-a-review-three-technologies-840
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Do you happen to know what sort of sensor it uses?
I haven't looked into it.
I can set my most expensive digital hygrometer out in the rain for days and it will never read over 84%. I still have two or three others that when placed in a terrarium will only read 'HI' or '8888' after an hour or two. It's not just the humidity, but also the direct misting/spraying that we do in our grow areas. Water and electronics have never gotten along well. Perhaps in the future, they'll find a fix for that problem, but in the meantime, digital hygrometers are the most accurate to use in a house at normal ambient household humidity, but in a 99% RH environment, mechanical hair hygrometers will give the best performance. RR
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: RogerRabbit]
#11310832 - 10/24/09 09:48 AM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, this prick called Doc_T is really an arrogant cunt.
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: beto]
#11312800 - 10/24/09 03:17 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, this prick called Doc_T is really an arrogant cunt.
Perhaps, but then again, perhaps those who live in glass houses shouldn't cast stones.
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digital hygrometers are the most accurate to use in a house at normal ambient household humidity, but in a 99% RH environment, mechanical hair hygrometers will give the best performance.
Agreed, but I think that's more of a market demand than technical limitation. I can't honestly think of much of anything in which such a high humidity is required (either as a consumer or an industry). Almost all humidity sensitive applications require it to not be too humid, or fall within a specific humidity range much lower than what we are looking for.
While I don't dare to consider your $250+ hygrometer a consumer good, that still doesn't ensure that it was designed for such extreme conditions that we require. Sure, more accurate sensors may be used, but if their physical limitations only allow them to be accurate in a spectrum which is no concern to you then a $1000 hygrometer won't get the job done.
I have high hopes for the thermal conductive humidity sensor, it seems like the correct digital solution for humidity measurement. It's pretty much a take on the 'dry bulb/wet bulb', but instead of using a wet bulb as the control, it uses the 'dry' one (Sealed in a waterless environment, usually nitrogen). Unfortunately, the only supplyer that I found for them isn't very accurate at useful temperatures (+-5% @ 30C, +- 0.5% @ 250C) and it was one of those places where you have to 'request a quote'. Even then, you'd still need a PLC to be able to make heads or tails of the thing and get some sort of output. Only major bonus to this is that by time you do all that work, you're all of 10 lines of code from making a hydrostat .
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I just ordered an analog hygrometer. However, just to test the digital one, I left it in a tupperware with some perlite overnight and it read 99%. When I put it in the shotgun, it drops to ~70%, and out in the open it reads %60, so I'm assuming it's somewhat accurate. Even with a lot of the holes taped up, I'm still only getting 80%.
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: SS32]
#11319513 - 10/25/09 04:23 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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I just ordered an analog hygrometer. However, just to test the digital one, I left it in a tupperware with some perlite overnight and it read 99%. When I put it in the shotgun, it drops to ~70%, and out in the open it reads %60, so I'm assuming it's somewhat accurate. Even with a lot of the holes taped up, I'm still only getting 80%.
$5 says its dead within a month...
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fundamentalchair said:
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I just ordered an analog hygrometer. However, just to test the digital one, I left it in a tupperware with some perlite overnight and it read 99%. When I put it in the shotgun, it drops to ~70%, and out in the open it reads %60, so I'm assuming it's somewhat accurate. Even with a lot of the holes taped up, I'm still only getting 80%.
$5 says its dead within a month...
YES! Unless you take it out of the FC. Use it for dialing in fruiting conditions, and then check the FC once in a while. But 99% humidity will kill any electronic device that isn't weather sealed, so take it out to room air when you have things working well.
And I'm not really sure about analogs, in this respect. Seems like it would be bad to leave it in there, but I'm not really sure why. A modern analog hygrometer should be brass or aluminum, and nylon, and you should be able to leave it in there forever. But I don't.
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Re: Mini Shotgun Not Holding Humidity [Re: Doc_T]
#11320723 - 10/25/09 07:56 PM (14 years, 5 months ago) |
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My digital one seems to make it all of about 36 hours before the battery needs to be replaced.
Hell if I know if it's even accurate. Might take it apart and seal off everything but the sensor with some silicone.
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A modern analog hygrometer should be brass or aluminum, and nylon, and you should be able to leave it in there forever.
Is this the modern take on the horse/human hair hygrometer?
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