SB: Re: Hardwired moisture sensors

["John Swearingen" <john@skillful-means.com>]

Kelly,

Radio Shack sells some ok data loggers...you can find them in their
catalogue (but usually not at the store).

John

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From: <Strawnet@aol.com>
To: <strawbale@crest.org>; <greenbuilding@crest.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 1:37 PM
Subject: SB: Hardwired moisture sensors


> Kelly Lerner asked me to post this and so I am passing it on to you all.
> Please copy Kelly directly if you have info to share with her.  Thanks.
>
> David Eisenberg
>
> ==============================
> Hi all,
> I'm looking for information on hard-wired moisture sensors. I'm working on
> a little straw-bale house on the California coast (not very heavy rain
> exposure) with earth plaster covered by a thin lime plaster weathering
> coat.. The owner has some technical facility and we would like to put
> moisture/relative humidity sensors in the bale walls at key locations and
> hard wire them to his computer (or at least hardwire them to a central a
> data logger that he can download into his computer).
>
> He'll also be tracking rainfall, exterior and interior temp, exterior and
> interior relative humidity. Could be some pretty nice data all together.
>
> I've worked with probes, simple Hobo data loggers and Habib-type moisture
> meters, but I don't have experience with permanent, hard-wired
> installations. Do you have suggestions for what kind of system we might
> use? Of course, less expensive is better, but we're not completely limited
> by budget on this one.
>
> Thanks,
> Kelly (klerner@one-world-design.com)
> ==============================
>
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> David Eisenberg
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