InkBird qeustion.

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thisbuds4u101

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I’ve been using the inkbird humidity controller for several months works really well I have my attic fan connected to it and when the humidity reaches 70% it kicks the fan on. All my rooms have chimneys in the ceilings which serves as ventilation pulling out the humidity.
 
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ZuuTeD614 said:
So I have been looking into this blue InkBird. Are they worth it? I currently just have my dehumidifier hooked up to a timer. I just ordered a good humidifier notice during nights out have to run the dehu and during lights on I need to add humidity. So I plug my.dehu and the humidifier into this InkBird and they work accordingly?
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Make sure you get the right one... the smaller ones blow-up really easy with overpowered items
 
ZuuTeD614

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Coloradogrower710 said:
They work great I have one that controls the heat and cool functions of my tent. Love it
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Well mt.dehy turns 9n and off with off with timer and my new humidifier I just bought doesn't come.in when thr timer comes on. Sucks so bad I just laid 100$ for this humidifier.
 
ZuuTeD614

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But with a know switch and not a digital Stat it will constantly run. I like having digital keep it set to 60 it will shut off when it there or run when it's not at 60.
 
Flowki

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ZuuTeD614 said:
But with a know switch and not a digital Stat it will constantly run. I like having digital keep it set to 60 it will shut off when it there or run when it's not at 60.
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ZuuTeD614 said:
Well mt.dehy turns 9n and off with off with timer and my new humidifier I just bought doesn't come.in when thr timer comes on. Sucks so bad I just laid 100$ for this humidifier.
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Truth be told following VPD makes de-hueys almost redundant, 75% RH means the de-huey rarely kicks in for me. It's more the issue of not enough humidity now. I've done this multiple times, high but steady RH, no mold, while saving a ton of electric by not trying to maintain 60 or below rh.

When it comes to automation like this, the bigger focus is on maintaining steady heat levels. It sounds like you are getting a massive humidity spike at night, that's potentialy due to a quick temp drop. There is a VPD thread or two around here that will go into all that if your care. It's worth having a de-huey set at around 75-80%, just in-case.

I don't know your experiance level but the quicker you get onto the setup that allows vpd safely, the better off. I don't miss chasing rh levels and emptying 20L drums every other day, not one bit.
 
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ZuuTeD614

ZuuTeD614

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Flowki said:
Truth be told following VPD makes de-hueys almost redundant, 75% RH means the de-huey rarely kicks in for me. It's more the issue of not enough humidity now. I've done this multiple times, high but steady RH, no mold, while saving a ton of electric by not trying to maintain 60 or below rh.

When it comes to automation like this, the bigger focus is on maintaining steady heat levels. It sounds like you are getting a massive humidity spike at night, that's potentialy due to a quick temp drop. There is a VPD thread or two around here that will go into all that if your care. It's worth having a de-huey set at around 75-80%, just in-case.

I don't know your experiance level but the quicker you get onto the setup that allows vpd safely, the better off. I don't miss chasing rh levels and emptying 20L drums every other day, not one bit.
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No man my Temps and humidity stay perfect, but I wasn't going off VPD chart I am now. So light on my humidity was getting down to 35 percent. So I wanted to add a humidifier to get that to stay around 55 percent because my Temps lights on now tjat I added that stay 79-82 and now my RH around 52-55 lights off my Temps stay 71-74 and my dehu is digital and set with a timer for when lights out to keep it the same as lights on around 55 percent. So now if I get the Inkbird I won't have to worry about a time on my dehu I can leave it set at like 55 percent and my humidifier I leave in max setting, so if the Inkbird kicks it on it will hopefully run not tjat long to bring humidity up. So I think I am 100 percent good now. Returning this Lowes humidifier and getting a non digital one so it kicks on with the Inkbird.
PS- I wrote this down from the chart. I picked the middle number to stay in the good range. I am using it for my next grow to actually see thr difference. I also have the 67 remote for the AC Cloudline, so that and the inbird should work with eachother and maintain what I have set! Thanks to everyone here for the help, it's greatly listened to and appreciated!20210802_195236.jpg
 
Flowki

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That's not following vpd in flower. Those temps will push the plant into taking up more water>nutrients. The plants are undoubtedly, completely undoubtedly happier when RH is closer to 70% for most of flower at higher temps, be it hps or led. I am kicking myself for not doing this sooner. You use less nutrients over all, less electric, less work, happier plants, bigger plants, more yield and no mold (environment depending).

With hps the lights need to be moved further back than normal, this allows the ambient temps > humidity to be higher without the bulbs scorching the plants. You will lose some intensity, but that is completely ought weighed by how happy the plants become. For years people have used poly-tunnels in gardens, you can't even see through most of them, yet on the inside are tropical plants, veg of all sorts, all green as fk. The heat and humidity as a catalyst to high yield has been overlooked by us ''growers'' for a long time. Our focus of yield reward has been entirely on ''light W'' and ''nutrients''. Essentially, low humidity is a detrimental mistake (one I also made for a long time).
 
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Flowki said:
That's not following vpd in flower. Those temps will push the plant into taking up more water>nutrients. The plants are undoubtedly, completely undoubtedly happier when RH is closer to 70% for most of flower at higher temps, be it hps or led. I am kicking myself for not doing this sooner. You use less nutrients over all, less electric, less work, happier plants, bigger plants, more yield and no mold (environment depending).

With hps the lights need to be moved further back than normal, this allows the ambient temps > humidity to be higher without the bulbs scorching the plants. You will lose some intensity, but that is completely ought weighed by how happy the plants become. For years people have used poly-tunnels in gardens, you can't even see through most of them, yet on the inside are tropical plants, veg of all sorts, all green as fk. The heat and humidity as a catalyst to high yield has been overlooked by us ''growers'' for a long time. Our focus of yield reward has been entirely on ''light W'' and ''nutrients''. Essentially, low humidity is a detrimental mistake (one I also made for a long time).
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On the VPD chart Herr at my tempsnwith lights on being 79-83 60% is good numbers for flowering. Screenshot_20210801-165533_Samsung Internet.jpg
 
Flowki

Flowki

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ZuuTeD614 said:
On the VPD chart Herr at my tempsnwith lights on being 79-83 60% is good numbers for flowering. View attachment 4957115
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The first 5 weeks of flower are essentially veg and bud setting, that vpd chart is not directly applicable or fully accurate. If I recall, reducing RH for the last 2 weeks was ''speculated'' to reduce mold (in certain parts of the world at-least) and potential PM reasoning. Check the link below, he runs 75% rh start to finish.

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The 10% extra rh makes a big difference, it isn't linear. The plants respiration rates tend to settle within 70-80%RH at 78-82F in a somewhat sealed room, they will always try to raise it to that range. Using a de-huey to go lower than 65% means it is constantly fighting the plants natural respiration rate, they really don't like it, drier leaves etc.
 
ZuuTeD614

ZuuTeD614

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Ok cool man I will run with that, I appreciate your feedback. I have plenty of air circulation, so PM and mould shouldn't be an issue with running high RH.
 
Flowki

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ZuuTeD614 said:
Ok cool man I will run with that, I appreciate your feedback. I have plenty of air circulation, so PM and mould shouldn't be an issue with running high RH.
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Yeah long winded and derailed a bit sorry, didn't mean that. You can easily check at 4 weeks, if you don't like what you see, just go back to your default. It's worth what ever risk there is to find out if you can run like that.
 
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