controlling humidity for curing or grow
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Dontjudgeme
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Inkbird is a reputable company like boatguy posted. My dehuey has its own humidity controller, so I use my inkbird for my humidifier. I have however used it for my smaller dehueys, but it works just fine. For some reason, the inkbird humidity controller from Amazon is different from the one on ebay,, and they look exactly rhe same. The one on ebay actually has a temp guage. You can't control the temp with it, but pressing both the up and down buttons together flashes the temp for a few seconds which I found pretty cool.
Splinter7
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thanks. do both outlets work at the same time? or, do they run in tandem? how free is the programming?
Dontjudgeme
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No they are independently operated. As the humidity drops below the threshold you set, it activates outlet 1 for humidification, if it goes above, it activates outlet 2 for dehumidification.
Boatguy
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Like @Dontjudgeme said, one is for cooling or dehumidification, the other is heating/humidification. Comes with both sensors, and all setting are manually entered into the display, no paid programming. You can set time delays and ranges as well so it doesnt short cycle.
It's worth noting that simply having fans turn on when your humidity increases above your control point won't necessarily dehumidify your cure room. If your using your fans to exhaust your cure room, as much air as you're exhausting is also how much air you're going to suck into the cure room - it's an air balance - that which goes out must also come in. And if it's raining outside with really moist, humid air - you're simply going to be pulling that humid air into your room. Just something to be mindful of - my solution to this is to build a glycol chiller - simply google diy glycol chiller and check out what the homebrew guys and girls are doing. It'll dehumidify your space while also slightly cooling it, and you don't have the increase in space temperature that you'd have with a normal dehumidifier. A normal dehumidifier uses hot air to wring out the moisture in the air but it'll also reject that hot air to your space which is going to raise your space temperature, which we don't want. And if your space temp increases now you need an AC to cool it - so skip all that control and equipment if you can
I use a dehumidifier to dry my buds set at 60% its a very slow even dry with a little air movement in a cool room