I live in a cold climate area and I do not have a furnace with a humidifier. I have a standalone humidifier hooked up to a Smart-plug, I get alerts when it turns off (IE: out of water).
The ideal humidity, based on what I am reading online should be based outside temperature. http://www.startribune.com/fixit-what-is-the-ideal-winter-indoor-humidity-level/11468916/. To summarize the article.
• If outside temperature is 20 to 40 degrees, humidity indoors should not be more than 40 percent.
• If outside temperature is 10 to 20 degrees, humidity indoors should not be more than 35 percent.
• If outside temperature is 0 to 10 degrees, humidity indoors should not be more than 30 percent.
• If outside temperature is 10-below to 0, humidity indoors should not be more than 25 percent.
• If outside temperature is 20-below to 10-below, humidity indoors should not be more than 20 percent.
• If outdoor temperature is lower than 20-below, inside humidity should not be more than 15 percent.
I have a Nest integration setup and can measure humidity, but my problem is that the temperature outside can change a lot, so I have a piston check to see if the humidity goes too high and generally too low. I’m not sure how to approach this piston. I just built it out today, so I’m not even confident that the “for 2 days” would even work - as the temperature outside could make it “reset”?
Here’s my first shot at building this out.
Anyone have any suggestions / ideas to make this just generally “work better”? Any ideas or suggestions are very much appreciated!