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- From: jgauvin@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM (jgauvin)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Humidity Sensor Needed (Cheap!!!)
- Message-ID: <2201@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 16:14:18 GMT
- References: <BtKDF8.4G8@cmptrc.lonestar.org>
- Reply-To: jgauvin@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM ()
- Organization: NCR Microelectronic Products Division
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- In article <BtKDF8.4G8@cmptrc.lonestar.org> neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal
- Howard) writes:
- >Can anyone out there help me with my search for something to use as an
- >electronic relative humidity sensor. So far my search has revealed the
- >following methods for building a sensor device for use in constructing an
- >electronic hygrometer I wish to interface to my PC:
-
- <bunch of stuff deleted>
-
- There are commercially available low cost humidity sensors, but unfortunately
- I cannot remember who builds them. It'll come to me some day. I do know this,
- however: they are based on a capacitor with an exposed dielectric. As it
- absorbs water vapor, its capacitance changes. The response time is very good,
- and the humidity range is something like 10% to 90%. A recent issue of
- Electronic Design had an applications example for a simple circuit that would
- output a 0 to 1 Volt output corresponding to 0% to 100% humidity.
-
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- Jeff Gauvin, Applications Engineer - Graphics Products
- NCR Corp., Microelectronic Products Division
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