Why not run them by time instead of always trying to reach 'set' points. For example have your exhaust coming on (I run mine 24/7) about 15 min's . before the Deheuey 'may ' be called on. Know wat i'm sayin. Give the fans time to bring down the RH before calling on the DHuey. Am i thinkin this out right....
Great question! That’s exactly what I’m trying to do but with setpoints instead of timers so it’s flexible to changing conditions and automatically adjusts itself without me needing to refigure out how long to run what all the time. Other than being able to keep my rh high enough in my old setup everything being dependent on everything else drove me crazy. Every time I wanted to adjust something I had to experiment to find out what the settings needed to change to outside of the tents to pull it off. Then by the time I had it figured out the weather would change or something and I was back to adjusting stuff. I didn’t title this thread very well what I really meant to say is full environment control I can set on each tent and pretty forgot knowing that it will work out what it needs to keep it where I told it to be.
I have a single Ac cooling the air both tents use that I can’t remotely adjust and doesn’t like to obey the setting on the thermostat cause it thinks it knows better and is being efficient so I like to run it colder than the tents need to cool them if the exhaust ran all the time. This gives me automatic backup cooling capacity already in the room and ready to use anytime one of the tents needs it for any reason preventing them from creeping above the set points and it lets me change tent settings within reason without worrying somethings gonna get out wack.
Since both tents need different temp and rh settings I’m using the exhaust fans to control both of these params and the exhaust alone will do the job as long as the parent room temp and rh are in a certain band.
The fans turn off the temp and rh goes up in that tent, fans turn on they both go down as far as the air coming in will allow while the fan is running.
This lets me have different settings on each tent for different times of the day for both rh and temp in a single room that is actually controllable and adjustable while only having a single ac, humidifier, dehumidifier for the whole room plus an exhaust fan per tent.
The problem comes when the parent room air gets to humid for the exhaust fan to bring the rh in the tent down to where I want it to be at which point I want the dehuy to kick in and drop the parent room air enough that the exhaust fan is able to bring the tent back into spec and shut off BUT I only want the dehuy to turn on when the exhaust fan can no longer keep the rh of a tent low enough on its own, not every time the controller kicks into dehuy mode. Most of the time the fan is all that’s needed so I don’t want the dehuy kicking on and off all day for nothing. Currently the exhaust fan and dehuy turns on every time the In tent rh gets to high which is the problem or at least less than ideal usage of a dehuy I’m trying to fix.
By this point you might be thinking Why not just keep the humidity controlled in the parent room with he dehuy to this magical happy range.
This would work based on dialing it In for today also but wouldn’t necessarily handle changing conditions inside the tent that change the optimal zone that the rh needs to stay in to keep inside the tent where I want it. Since I’m basing it on the reading inside the tent instead any changing demands of that tent will get handled automatically.
If I base it purely off time or the offset I need between the room and tent I can dial it in for today but what about a month from now or three or when I want to run different settings. Once this is setup right it should be a plug In the numbers you want in each tent and the controllers / equipment will make sure that’s what they’re at
The current setup now that it's calibrated would actually adjust based on needs and work fine but it’s harder on the dehuy and runs it more than is really necessary so I’m just trying to optimize how the equipment gets utilized at this point and let the exhaust fans do as much of the work as possible for both temp and rh control with the dehuy or humidifier only needing to kick on when absolutely necessary which will mean the exhaust fans have already failed to fix the problem on their own.
Remember I’m a software engineer by trade. I love this kinda shit
We have a saying at work “more system auto!” And basically I’m on a quest for full system auto
The one static time based setting I am strongly thinking of doing is a timed override to force the dehuy on for 45 min or so starting right before lights out to give it a head start on dropping the rh in the parent room before the in tent spike happens at lights out but there is a diff period I can give different settings and apply them to the one hour lights out time and have it blend those different settings to move to nighttime settings more gradually which is probably a better way to handle the problem since it would be totally based on real needs instead of when and how long I think it needs to run for.
Got boys,...timer's goin off for supper...Cheers eh.
..mornin Amy, Derbs, Neiko!
