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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA">Dear Lennart,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">Paul Callomon MSc</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA"><br>
<i>Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates</i></span><span style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA">1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA<br>
<i><a href="mailto:prc44@drexel.edu">prc44@drexel.edu</a> Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170</i></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-fareast-language:JA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA">From:</span></b><span style="mso-fareast-language:JA"> Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lennart Lennuk<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 7, 2020 10:16 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Alternatives for room climate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black">Dear curators,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black">We have broken climate system in our collections room and the main problem is too low humidity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black">What would you suggest for quick alternative for rising the humidity.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black">Are the ordinary humidifiers (meant for homes or Office) ok to use?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span lang="ET" style="color:black;mso-fareast-language:ET">Head!<br>
Lennart<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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