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Humidifier lowering room's humidity?
    #9302553 - 11/24/08 08:22 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

I recently setup a 4-tier greenhouse and am currently working on trying to get the humidity/FAE adjusted but so far am having some troubles.

I have a Vicks cool mist humidifier which is sitting in the bottom, and currently on a timer, 30 min on, 30 min off (30 min is the minimum amount of time you can have it on/off for).  Before I started running the humidifier the humidity in my room was approx. 50%, but since its been running for about 24hrs, the room humidity has gone down to 36%.  Any ideas what could be causing this?

Before I put the humidifier on a timer I left it running for 24hrs straight and although the humidity in the greenhouse was about 80%, the humidity in my room once again had dropped. (Even though the greenhouse humidity here was what I wanted it to be, I would rather not have it running 24hrs a day and know its not necessary, I just need to get it sorted out I guess)

I am going to add some perlite to the bottom of the greenhouse today so well see what happens, but if anyone has any input I would appreciate it!

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Re: Humidifier lowering room's humidity? [Re: Menziesii]
    #9302562 - 11/24/08 08:26 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

I was going to suggest trays of perlite too, but I don't know about your problem beyond that!


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Re: Humidifier lowering room's humidity? [Re: Menziesii]
    #9302583 - 11/24/08 08:32 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

What kind of hygrometer are you using and is it calibrated?

What kind of cool mist do you have? You want the impeller type with a spinning disc. Sounds like you have the kind that blows air through a wet filter which wont humidify you greenhouse.

Running an impeller type humidifier for 24 hours would result in flooding.


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Re: Humidifier lowering room's humidity? [Re: veda_sticks]
    #9302606 - 11/24/08 08:38 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

I have the Taylor 1458 but am wondering also if maybe it is not functioning properly.  I have a vicks (V420) cool mist humidifier but was under the impression that it was an impeller type...

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Re: Humidifier lowering room's humidity? [Re: Menziesii]
    #9302682 - 11/24/08 08:54 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

I just done a search for the v420 and its an impellar type.


Digital hygrometer.

After reading some of RR's post he uses 2 coolmists, 1 on the bottom and 1 on the top.


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Re: Humidifier lowering room's humidity? [Re: veda_sticks]
    #9302739 - 11/24/08 09:08 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

sounds like you might have a faulty humidifier.

i disassemblied mine to make a custom humidifier out of a kitty litter bucket (5 gallon square bucket). and my humidifier impeller fan fits perfect in there as well as the filter. then i can fill it up a bit more than needed.


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Re: Humidifier lowering room's humidity? [Re: drjugglz]
    #9302984 - 11/24/08 09:47 AM (15 years, 3 months ago)

hey man, i just got one of those greenhouses off of ebay, i think its the same you got?

I have a few suggestions, first you really need to get it sealed off at the bottom, that way you can put a small vent at the bottom RH will be easier to stabilize. I am going to run a Vicks V5100 Ultrasonic(45.00)its seems to be the best $ and easiest to setup, i am going to use 3" I.D. hosing to and from my humidifiers, any impeller type coolmist will work, i have a small air pump for FAE

You really need some better timers, here are the ones i ordered, i got 3 on for ultrasonic, one for coolmist, one for air pump.they will do 14 on/offs a day, for only 26.99 ea, in 1 min. increments

heres the linkhttp://www.rvfgardensupply.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=734025

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Re: Humidifier lowering room's humidity? [Re: drjugglz]
    #9304957 - 11/24/08 03:45 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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drjugglz said:
sounds like you might have a faulty humidifier.

i disassemblied mine to make a custom humidifier out of a kitty litter bucket (5 gallon square bucket). and my humidifier impeller fan fits perfect in there as well as the filter. then i can fill it up a bit more than needed.




Hmm... when I put my hand infront of the vent that it blows air out of, my hand gets a bit moist so that leads me to believe its working.  I just don't understand how the humidity of the whole room went down. 
Working on getting a timer with shorter time increments (or maybe trying to manually modify the timer I have) cause I watched the humidity while it was on, and it went up to 78% but then dropped back down to 46% during the half hour it was off for.

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Re: Humidifier lowering room's humidity? [Re: Menziesii]
    #9304993 - 11/24/08 03:53 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

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I just don't understand how the humidity of the whole room went down.




My room was consistently at 40-45 %RH.  Last week it got really cold and dry - the dew point was in the single digits outside.  Well my %RH steadily went down to 20 over a few days.  Today it warmed up a bit, and I'm back up to almost 30.

When it gets cold outside, your %RH will ALWAYS drop.  Cold air holds MUCH less moisture than warm air - and when that cold air heats back up in your house, the %RH plummets.

For example it was 20 deg @ 60 %RH.  If you were to heat that air up to 70, it would have the same moisture content, but the %RH would be around 10.

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Re: Humidifier lowering room's humidity? [Re: J3illy]
    #9305502 - 11/24/08 05:24 PM (15 years, 3 months ago)

Ohh, thanks!  It has been finally getting colder outside.  I figured it must have been the humidifier since the %RH dropped around the same time, but that makes sense.

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