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- From: frank@rover.uchicago.edu (Frank - Hardware Hacker - Borger)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Humidity Sensor Needed (Cheap!!!)
- Message-ID: <4SEP199209563595@rover.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 15:56:00 GMT
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- >>>> Can anyone out there help me with my search for something to use as an
- >>>> electronic relative humidity sensor.
-
- Suddenly remembered that for a high-school science project, I
- did a circuit out of radio-electronics to turn off a de-humidifier
- at the appropriate time. Detector was a variable resistance in the
- grid circuit of a 2050 thyratron.
-
- 1 Take one box, plastic, approximately the size of the box greeting
- cards come in. Remove the top.
-
- 2 Mount 2 banana plugs in the box, about 3 inches apart. Leave the
- threaded parts sticking up into the box, plug parts sticking down.
-
- |______||________||_______| <-- cross section looks like this
- () ()
-
- 3 Fill box about 1/4" deep with table salt.
-
- Resistance varies with humidity.
-
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