Humidifier/de-humidifier ?

Humidifier = Evaporative Cooler

So for decent sized spaces use an evaporative cooler on an inkbird controller to get more humidity faster. Plus most good ones can be hooked to a water supply so you are not topping off.
 
I just use a cheap humidifier from walmart with my WILLHI humidity controller from amazon that seems to do a good job. Theres a bunch of instructions online on how to set one up to auto refill itself, all the ones I've seen used electrical sensors... I wanna see if I can set one up with a toilet fill setup...

If you dont mind refilling it possibly often those cheap 2 liter humidifiers might be fine but you probably need more of them.
 
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Renfro said:
Just use a float valve.
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Thats basically what I mean, the one I looked at on instructables takes a float valve and an electric selenoid valve... Im not sure why you would need both my toilet doesn't use any more electricity than the pump pushing the water.

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Easy Auto Fill Humidifier

Easy Auto Fill Humidifier: Background / Motivation: Like many people my furnace runs much the winter, so I need a humidifer to keep the air from getting too dry. When the furnace runs a lot, the humidifier needs to be re-fill every day, sometimes twice …
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Only reason I can see to use a solenoid valve is to time delivery of water. For example I use one to feed the float on the reservoir for my flood and drain, that way it won't try to top off when the system is flooding the tray. For a humidifier I can't see why one would need a solenoid valve.
 
Renfro said:
The inkbird controller is a winner, it can control both a humidifier and dehumidifier at once, with a user defined dead band. You do need to make sure the devices plugged in will "auto restart after outage".
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Renfro said:
Most people put the dehumidifier outside the tent and pull the fresh air for ventilating the tent from that room.
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Great Advice....thank you Renfro. I’m planning to use an Inkbird controller for a humidifier and dehumidifier in a 5x5 Grow tent. The tent is located in a bedroom. In that case, can I still run the dehumidifier outside of the tent? Any other tips on using the Inkbird?
 
twalte said:
In that case, can I still run the dehumidifier outside of the tent?
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If the tent is getting it's intake air from the room the dehumidifier is in then it should work fine so long as the ventilation system is adequate and running.
 
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