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shocktherapy · 04-27-05, 22:43

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If you happen to have a humidifier...

then you will want to run your fan for about 1/10th the duration that your humidifyer runs, thus introducing new humidity and fresh air as your chamber purges it's excess CO2.

ultrasonic and cool mist humidifier teks:

for an ultrasonic (which is what i use) your going to want to run a hose off of your humid output to a piece of 1/4 to 1/2in PVC pipe that is as long as your chamber is tall, you will want to drill small holes into the pipe prior to capping and placing it. The holes should all be facing in the same general direction so that when the humidity is pumped through the pipe you get it streaming onto your cakes/casings. For this tek you will need to drill a hole into the top of you chamber near one of the shelve tubes the same sized hole will need to be drilled in the same general area for all the shelves ending at your bottom shelf (do not drill a hole in your bottom shelf, when the PVC pipe reaches the bottom shelf cap it and hot glue it to the face of the bottom shelf) the PVC pipe will be ran through the holes in each of your shelves, the pipe will stay strait vertically and be capped ounce it has been threaded through the drilled holes. Hook the hose from your humidifier to the pipe, after that it's all a matter of expierimentation, finding how long and how often you need to run your humidifier is to be determined by your hygrometer readings in relation to your desired humidity.

Cool mist humidification uses the same process as ultrasonic.

if your using a cool mist humidifier then you will be able to easily tell where you have lost seal integrity, just flip it on, plug up the fan hole and run your hand along the tarp to shelf joints, if you feel air escaping then seal it with either calk or hot glue, the tarp on your chamber should "puff" out when air os introduced into it and should "suck in" when the exaust fan is operating...if it doesn't then you probably have a leak somewhere.

Testing for the ultrasonic is even easier, just turn your ultrasonic on full blast and fog up the entire inside of the chamber, if you see fog excaping from the chamber anywhere then thats where you got a leak, seal it apropriately.

I hope this tek is helpful to someone somewhere, any suggestions or questions are welcome as is criticism.

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shocktherapy Mycophiliac Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 42	-continued- If you happen to have a humidifier... then you will want to run your fan for about 1/10th the duration that your humidifyer runs, thus introducing new humidity and fresh air as your chamber purges it's excess CO2. ultrasonic and cool mist humidifier teks: for an ultrasonic (which is what i use) your going to want to run a hose off of your humid output to a piece of 1/4 to 1/2in PVC pipe that is as long as your chamber is tall, you will want to drill small holes into the pipe prior to capping and placing it. The holes should all be facing in the same general direction so that when the humidity is pumped through the pipe you get it streaming onto your cakes/casings. For this tek you will need to drill a hole into the top of you chamber near one of the shelve tubes the same sized hole will need to be drilled in the same general area for all the shelves ending at your bottom shelf (do not drill a hole in your bottom shelf, when the PVC pipe reaches the bottom shelf cap it and hot glue it to the face of the bottom shelf) the PVC pipe will be ran through the holes in each of your shelves, the pipe will stay strait vertically and be capped ounce it has been threaded through the drilled holes. Hook the hose from your humidifier to the pipe, after that it's all a matter of expierimentation, finding how long and how often you need to run your humidifier is to be determined by your hygrometer readings in relation to your desired humidity. Cool mist humidification uses the same process as ultrasonic. if your using a cool mist humidifier then you will be able to easily tell where you have lost seal integrity, just flip it on, plug up the fan hole and run your hand along the tarp to shelf joints, if you feel air escaping then seal it with either calk or hot glue, the tarp on your chamber should "puff" out when air os introduced into it and should "suck in" when the exaust fan is operating...if it doesn't then you probably have a leak somewhere. Testing for the ultrasonic is even easier, just turn your ultrasonic on full blast and fog up the entire inside of the chamber, if you see fog excaping from the chamber anywhere then thats where you got a leak, seal it apropriately. I hope this tek is helpful to someone somewhere, any suggestions or questions are welcome as is criticism.