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Author Topic: Humidifier Manufacturers David Yauch Expert Film Handler Posts: 206 From: Mesa, AZ, USA Registered: Oct 2004 posted 12-31-2004 12:38 AM                     Humidity in our booth has been a problem for a very, very long time. There is a chance that keeping the evaporative cooler on the low setting during the nighttime, and leaving the doors to the booth open could keep it in the right spot, but it will have to be the result of trial and error.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-31-2004 08:17 AM                     If you're seriously considering that route, do it right. Get a hygrometer (relative humidity meter) and interwire it with a thermostat (hygrostat?) and have it control the unit. You might want to have a professional HVAC installer do this (indeed, regulations/code may require it). --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 01-01-2005 03:22 PM                     We use the VAPAC wall mounted humidifiers in our booths, but I can't exactly reccomend them right now. Their menu system is a dog to get through, and the canisters have to be decalcified in what seems to be too often. When they work, they put out the vapor though  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-01-2005 08:06 PM                    With the massive airflow through most booths because of the lamp exhausts it's going to be an uphill battle to do much in the way of humidity control. That's why lamps should be ducted for inlet as well as exhaust. Would help make better dust control possible too.  |  IP: Logged David Yauch Expert Film Handler Posts: 206 From: Mesa, AZ, USA Registered: Oct 2004 posted 01-01-2005 11:23 PM                     quote: John Hawkinson If you're seriously considering that route, do it right. Get a hygrometer (relative humidity meter) and interwire it with a thermostat (hygrostat?) and have it control the unit. You might want to have a professional HVAC installer do this (indeed, regulations/code may require it). I should probably finish working on the filmguard situation and the exit lighting before I work too hard on trying to get them to pay for an installer, but hopefully the a/c will break enough in the next couple of months to force them to look towards an alternative.  |  IP: Logged

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