[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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