Why does regulating humidity have to be such a cumbersome affair? We have thermostats for regulating temps--why not a hygrostat? With today's technologies, I always scratch my head about stuff like this. Here's what I envision--feel free to improve the idea--and maybe someone could actually design this or something better:
A pan of water that is filled automatically or manually (depending on whether you can hook it up to a water source). Over the pan of water, a lid that slides open or closed. A hygrometer. A controller of some sort--the hygrostat--that monitors data received from the hygrometer. When the humidity rises above a pre-set limit, the hygrostat sends instructions to the lid, and the lid closes partially. Humidity is checked every five minutes or so, and if it is still above the limit, lid closes a bit more. Etc. Humidity drops below a certain level, lid slides open. And so on.
Or, it could be tied to sprayer nozzles that could gently mist the area based on the same information feed.
It seems like this should work, and would take a lot of the manual pain-in-the-behind-ness out of incubating as well as maintaining reptiles (who are also picky about their humidity--we used to have a ball python). Anyone?
A pan of water that is filled automatically or manually (depending on whether you can hook it up to a water source). Over the pan of water, a lid that slides open or closed. A hygrometer. A controller of some sort--the hygrostat--that monitors data received from the hygrometer. When the humidity rises above a pre-set limit, the hygrostat sends instructions to the lid, and the lid closes partially. Humidity is checked every five minutes or so, and if it is still above the limit, lid closes a bit more. Etc. Humidity drops below a certain level, lid slides open. And so on.
Or, it could be tied to sprayer nozzles that could gently mist the area based on the same information feed.
It seems like this should work, and would take a lot of the manual pain-in-the-behind-ness out of incubating as well as maintaining reptiles (who are also picky about their humidity--we used to have a ball python). Anyone?
