Static electricity SOLVED p4
I have dry skin (have to wet my finger to activate touch screen) but my wife gets sparks (!) as well. The issue did not exist in CA, where we used to live in higher humidity area and was lesser issu...
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To add experience to what I wrote as a plan a year ago.
The WI-FI controllers work fine.
I bought 4-pack of them on amazon and they come to about $10 a piece, so cheap enough. Use them for pool lights as well.
For humidifier control, I install automotive relay on its sensor wire and 12V charger (from old answering machine) plug into WI-FI controller.
Purge valve has its own charger, that I directly plug into WI-FI controller.
So my set for the humidifier is to start water purge 1 hr before humidifier starts. Factory set gives purge about 8 seconds with intervals every 20 minutes.
I did not like the idea about purging boiling water and having softener - purging is not high priority.
So resetting purge to 20 seconds and turning the WI-FI switch for 1/2 hr early in the morning -gives it double purge, what I believe replace over 90% of water in cold humidifier.
Than 2nd WI-FI plug starts humidifier 1/2 hr before furnace starts morning cycle.
This way I maximize fan use when furnace and humidifier runs together.
The main schedule runs humidifier for 4 hr in the morning and I set the sensor to 30%. (took some try by error as there is no numeric scale on factory dial).
This way the system gives me 30% humidity in the morning and on extreme days I use my android to give it more time for additional humidifying.
Hope it is clear enough?
The WI-FI controllers work fine.
I bought 4-pack of them on amazon and they come to about $10 a piece, so cheap enough. Use them for pool lights as well.
For humidifier control, I install automotive relay on its sensor wire and 12V charger (from old answering machine) plug into WI-FI controller.
Purge valve has its own charger, that I directly plug into WI-FI controller.
So my set for the humidifier is to start water purge 1 hr before humidifier starts. Factory set gives purge about 8 seconds with intervals every 20 minutes.
I did not like the idea about purging boiling water and having softener - purging is not high priority.
So resetting purge to 20 seconds and turning the WI-FI switch for 1/2 hr early in the morning -gives it double purge, what I believe replace over 90% of water in cold humidifier.
Than 2nd WI-FI plug starts humidifier 1/2 hr before furnace starts morning cycle.
This way I maximize fan use when furnace and humidifier runs together.
The main schedule runs humidifier for 4 hr in the morning and I set the sensor to 30%. (took some try by error as there is no numeric scale on factory dial).
This way the system gives me 30% humidity in the morning and on extreme days I use my android to give it more time for additional humidifying.
Hope it is clear enough?
