Humidistat

[Bobby B]

Any body had antyhing to do with humidistat fans?

Are tehy any good if about 1.5m away from a shower?

Can you get standalone humidistats to control a normal fan, say cieling mount?

i've also considered an occupancy sensor to control the fan, not sure which is the best way to go.

cheers boys

 

[pmac10]

yes, not sure and yes in answer to your questions, what exactly do you need to achieve or whats the problem?

 

[Bobby B]

My flat mate refuses to open the window when he has a shower and does'nt always use the lights, i'm just gonnna try the built in humidistat on the fan for a while then fit an external stat if ness, cheers mate

 

[pmac10]

that should work fine, my shower is electric and receives power through a pull switch which also operated the fan

 

[Bobby B]

How did you wire that?
i've been asked about it a bit in the past

 

[pmac10]

it was already in the house but the pull switch is just an isolator. i press the start button on the redring shower unit and step out(nice and dry) then operate the pull switch and both start. ffs dont use a bathroom light switch, this thing is rated for the job in hand, im industrial maintenance, but if remember correctly a lecky shower should have its own circuit so id take an extra live from the switched side of the isolator through a 3A fused spur located in your roof space to your fan. id also come up with a delay off circuit for the fan so it continues to extract for a while after the showers turned off. theres probably domestic installation sparks on here could tell you a better way or im completely wrong, but thats how id do it.

 

[Bobby B]

It'd work fine but a bit costly and time consuming. i'm running a combi shower at the moment anyway. occupancy is prob the way to go if it don't work too well

 

[pmac10]

you can 'pick up' all sorts of useful devices in a factory, have you thought about getting a new flatmate who opens windows and uses lights?