[time-nuts] Temp/Humidity control systems?
jimlux
jimlux at earthlink.net
Wed Oct 26 19:48:16 UTC 2016
On 10/26/16 8:59 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
> I may have the opportunity to build a small "clock room" and am
> considering whether I could make it an environmentally controlled space.
> I'd like to learn about the options for doing this.
>
> The space would probably be 6x8 feet or so, in a basement with one
> outside wall.
>
> Can anyone point me to purveyors of the hardware to do something like
> this? Because I'll have a limited time to build this, I'm looking for
> something that uses more-or-less off the shelf gear, and not a whole lot
> of custom engineering.
How tightly regulated?
I've been looking into this to make a chamber of that general size that
is around 10-15C and 50% RH (for incubating sausage duplicating an
Italian cave<grin>)...
Most kitchen stuff (refrigerators, etc.) tend to have fairly big
fluctuations of temperature as the compressor cycles, although if you
put a lot of mass in the controlled space that certainly slows it down.
There are also a variety of things like cold storage (for florists, for
example) - they tend to be assembled out of simple building blocks:
insulated wall panels, a cooler unit, a door.
Lab incubators or commercial baking is another source (imagine raising
bread consistently)
However, all these kinds of applications can easily tolerate a 5C swing
in temperature since the thing being controlled is fairly massive and
its internal temperature will vary less.
The challenge with a "small" space is that when the cooling unit comes
on, you're blasting in cold air, and it's not "well mixed".
>
> Thanks!
> John
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