Humidifiers

[Greg Lindahl]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 03:50:41PM -0700, Andre Lehovich wrote:

> We just had the campus cooling guy visit to prepare a cost
> estimate.  He wanted to know if we want to regulate humidity
> along with temperature.  A humidifier helps avoid static
> electricity problems.  (We're in the desert, so even before
> A/C the relative humidity is low.)

I've never seen a real machine room without humidity regulation. I
don't know if it costs a lot extra or not; I'd suspect it's only
annoying in smaller units. Hm, even the itty bitty (2 ton?) units in
the machine room here have humidity control in them.

greg