[ProgSoc] Laptop advice/suggestions

Roland Turner raz at progsoc.org
Tue Jul 1 21:01:05 EST 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 20:31 +1000, Michael Lamont wrote:

> Perhaps he was using his Laptop in sub zero temps which can give a
> reading of greater than 100% relative humidity ;-)

Especially if you keep the wet bulb warm enough to be "wet".

- Raz


> 
> 
> 
> On 01/07/2008, Roland Turner <raz at progsoc.org> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 17:57 +1000, Michael Lamont wrote:
>         
>         > Un no, the way humidity is measured on a "wet" thermometer
>         is not with
>         > the thermometer immersed in water.
>         >
>         > The thermometer bulb sits in a wet wick and when the air
>         temperature
>         > is the same on a wet and a dry thermometer humidity = 100 %
>         
>         
>         
>         So, http://www.answers.com/facetious&r=67 :
>         
>         > Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.
>         
>         
>         Absent equipment failures or some rather special experimental
>         setups,
>         the bulb in the wet wick will always measure a lower
>         temperature, or at
>         worst the same temperature, as the dry bulb. The R.H.
>         measurement will
>         never exceed 100%, not even at the bottom of a swimming pool.
>         
>         
>         - Raz
>         
>         
>         
>         >
>         > Relative humidity can be calculated as a percentage from the
>         > difference between the two thermometers over the dry bulb
>         temp.
>         >
>         > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_humidity
>         >
>         > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrometer
>         >
>         > On 01/07/2008, Roland Turner <raz at progsoc.org> wrote:
>         >         On Tue, 2008-07-01 at 10:19 +1000, Thomas
>         Given-Wilson wrote:
>         >
>         >         > it... In humidity of over 100% for weeks and all
>         sorts of
>         >         abuse (5
>         >
>         >         Erm, you've been using it at the bottom of a
>         swimming pool?
>         >
>         >         - Raz
>         >
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