[Nhcoll-l] Alternatives for room climate

[Callomon,Paul]

Dear Lennart,

Safely adding humidity to a collection space is hard and always expensive. The problem if you use a humidifier (such as the home ones you mention) is that there will be a gradient of humidity around it – damp enough to create mold near the machine but still dry at the far end of the room. If you have multi-outlet ducting for your building climate system, then, at least try and rig something up that uses that ducting to distribute the moisture as evenly as possible. Otherwise, you could set up a system of fans to create air circulation throughout the space and try to even out the humidity that way – but be aware that doing that could then drop the temperature through the evaporative cooling effect, causing folks to turn up the heating and make the problem worse.


Paul Callomon MSc
Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates
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From: Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu> On Behalf Of Lennart Lennuk
Sent: Monday, December 7, 2020 10:16 AM
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Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Alternatives for room climate


External.
Dear curators,

We have broken climate system in our collections room and the main problem is too low humidity.
What would you suggest for quick alternative for rising the humidity.
Are the ordinary humidifiers (meant for homes or Office) ok to use?

Head!
Lennart

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