Re: Gum Humidity Question

[Katharine Thayer <kthayer@pacifier.com>]

On Sep 26, 2006, at 9:20 PM, Katharine Thayer wrote:

> On Sep 26, 2006, at 8:32 PM, Kerik wrote:
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> > OK, you live on the coast and it's foggy outside so the humidity  
> > is near
> > 100%. When you get a hygrometer ($30 from radio shack - been using  
> > them for
> > years), it would be interesting to know what the conditions are in  
> > your
> > darkroom/work area.
> The humidity in the workroom should be pretty close to the humidity  
> outside, shouldn't it, as long as the windows are always wide  
> open?  I's not fog, BTW,  it's just a constant dampness in the air,  
> and believe me, when it's damp outside, it's damp inside, if the  
> windows are open.  (I just happen to like feeling like I'm living  
> outside, even though I don't actually want to LIVE outside).  But  
> it sounds like you're saying that even with the house open to the  
> outdoors, the humidity should be considerably less inside. If  
> that's true, maybe my cheap hygrometer does work after all.
Well, I guess not, because I put it outside, away from the house, to  
check how well it would measure  the outside humidity, which should  
be 88%, give or take.  Even after leaving it out there for more than  
half an hour, the hygrometer never made it above 68%.  So no, the  
hygrometer definitely isn't giving me an accurate read or even close.
Katharine