[time-nuts] Temp/Humidity control systems?

[Bob Camp]

HI

I would take a look at the “stuff” they make for wine cellars. It’s an application aimed 
at the same sort of area size and done in much higher volume than an electronics 
closet. 

Bob

> On Oct 26, 2016, at 1:58 PM, John Ackermann N8UR <jra at febo.com> wrote:
> 
> On 10/26/2016 1:00 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
>> On 10/26/2016 8:59 AM, John Ackermann N8UR wrote:
>>> I may have the opportunity to build a small "clock room" and am
>>> considering whether I could make it an environmentally controlled space.
>>> I'd like to learn about the options for doing this.
>>> 
>>> The space would probably be 6x8 feet or so, in a basement with one
>>> outside wall.
>> 
>> I'm lost with the basic concept here.  Help me understand this.
> 
> This room would be a large closet in my basement where two racks of various OCXO, Rb, Cs live. There wouldn't be a lot of in-and-out traffic. I'm not looking for 0.01 degree regulation -- <1 degree C and a few percent humidity throughout the year seems a reasonable goal.
> 
> What I envisioned was a very small heat pump or other heating/air-con unit coupled with some sort of proportional control. I just don't know where to start looking for that, or what other issues to be thinking about.
> 
> (I know the way time-nuts think, and I recall the great ideas posted here in the past about using an old refrigerator, or burying standards in a deep hole -- but this would be wrapped into a bigger construction project that I'm going to be managing from a distance, so I need to keep it fairly straight-forward.)
> 
> Thanks, all!
> 
> John
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