Analog Hygrometers - how?

It's a simple one this time. Simple! Simple!
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I ran some basic tests on the hygrometers to see if the linear scaling would be a problem. A link at the end takes you to a Twitter thread with pictures. The result was... mixed. It seems clear that the high end humidities are never attainable on the Taylor model nor the clock. They don't seem capable of reading past 80%. However, on the low end they were in better agreement with the other models. It may be that the linear-scale hygrometers are built so that they behave more linearly but I'm personally doubtful of that. I would personally avoid dial-hygrometers with linear scales. twitter.com/TechConnectify/status/1387791666183032834

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Could you do a video on how water softeners soften water? I think I looked at 20 different diagrams and I still don't understand how the water doesn't get salty or how the limescale soaks into the salt

[@gzfelix]

I use a Fischer hygrometer at home. It is linear and quite accurate.

[@Lu_Woods]

Is that the same 'Taylor' as in the new McDonalds soft ice cream expose' ? How about those cheap digital hygrometers?

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"If we take this thing apart through the magic of buying two of them" makes me laugh every time

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That gag will never get old.

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me to. one of my favorite bits of his

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And his heat pump video (1st) had so many references he made my favorite joke with the "Another plug?" as he pulled an extension cord into view

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Alec even made the background tv’s various pictures of RCA and CED stuff. Well done trolling.

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Hint: Even if you do understand english, turn on the Subtitles.

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And uses it well

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deeply smooth jazz

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The panning closeup shot at 0:33 could straight up be out of an "how it's made" episode.

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I was legit just thinking this channel is like How It's Made but really How It Works, then I saw this comment.

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True

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thats not a pan thats a tilt

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The power of buying two will never get old.

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So what's the square root of that?

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well one is none etc.

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Agree!

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It's like putting something in the oven amd just minute later the cook pulls out an already done version.

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Why buy one when you can get two at twice the price?

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Whenever someone says "bimetallic", I never know whether they mean "twice a metal" or "once every other metal".

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This comment really made me laugh and agree at the same time.

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Yes.

[@thorin1045]

Well, the solution is in the wards itself, bi means two, nothing else, biannual is two + yearly (annual means yearly, or every year), so the two mean every two year mettalic means made of a metal, so bimetallic means made of two metal

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Clearly bimetallic is 'two metals', otherwise it'd be fortmetallic to be 'once every other metal', duh! :P

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That's why you should use "fortnickelly"!

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That rant about googling fahrenheit is the maddest I've ever seen you lol

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he's been madder, but you don't want to see that.

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@@mrShift_0044 yes I do. Titles and/or links please

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Yeah, people that complain that "celsius is superior" gets really old after awhile.

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@@SimulatedGoat or being an ass about it is what gets old real quick, and that might be the reason behind his lil rant.

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And it unnecessarily makes requests... and consume electricity, etc. We should all use Kelvin... would be way easier... maybe.

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Wikipedia is tight

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Blatant product placement.

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But there wasn't any...

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@@Chocomint_Queen it plays on in our hearts

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Is it copyrighted or something? Why one this time 😣

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i did not hear the sax music until i read your comment, thankyou, i was missing it.

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@@calebstg5279 Most likely it was Creative Commons (CC) licensed so he didn’t have to pay to license it. KZbin creators can find tons of free music to use in their videos that doesn’t require a license fee to use. As to why he left it out this time I think it was so he could label this as a truly simple quickie video.

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I just wanna say that the shot at 0:33 (a common framing on this channel), reminds me soooo much of “how it’s made” and i love it

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I thought the same!

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Damn, that's a perfect parallel. They are the same framing and motion, and you know what? It's probably one of the many little things that make both so fun to watch.

[@allanrichardson1468]

As a child in the 1950s, I read about what was considered the “gold standard” of humidity for use by professional meteorologists, the wet-bulb dry-bulb hygrometer. This consisted of two well calibrated mercury thermometers mounted side by side on a board, with the mercury bulbs hanging off one end. One of the thermometers had an uncovered (dry) bulb (perhaps protected by a metal screen), while the other was wrapped in a small piece of cloth, like a shoelace. The meteorologist would soak the cloth around the dry bulb in water, then use a cord attached to the other end of the board to swing the board around in a circle for a prescribed amount of time, in a shaded and rain-protected outdoor shack. Then they would take both readings and look them up in a table, giving the relative humidity. Today they probably have two thermocouples mounted on a centrifuge and a microprocessor does the table lookup.

[@eh42]

The wet bulb registers the dew point - a temperature based way to represent the absolute humidity. The chart would cross reference the dew point opposite the ambient temperature (which puts a hard limit on maximum absolute humidity) and the intersection would be a percentage of actual to maximum absolute humidity - or the relative humidity.

[@stevecooper2873]

A "sling psychrometer"

[@shibasurfing]

wet bulb is not actually used any more? good grief why doesn’t the news report on things such as this. i’m just a lowly physicist with basic knowledge of the world.

[@melody3741]

@@shibasurfingyou can make hugrometers without needing a temperature sensor at all, there are materials that react strongly to the change in humidity and you can use them to change capacitance or resistance to pretty precise numbers. At least as precise as a thermistor, dunno about a thermocouple

[@TheRealMycanthrope]

​​@@shibasurfingwhich is why OP acknowledged that they probably use thermocouples now? For a physicist your reading comprehension is pretty dogshit.

[@hngldr]

"Through the magic of buying two of them" will never get old for me, even if you try to just casually sneak it by without emphasis this time.

[@BrianHaddad]

"But this one is actually a bimetallic strip tease." I had to pause the video and question my life choices.

[@cerocero2817]

In Spain we have some pretty interesting old hygrometers, we call them "fraile del tiempo" or weather friar. It's a cardboard image of a monk, usualy sitting on a study, with an articulated arm and hood. The arm moves reacting to air preassure and humidity and points towards different weather predictions, and when it points towards rain the hood pops up. These remarkable and mystifying little devices prove really simple when you turn them around, as they are moved by a single strand of horse hair.

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Fíjate... No tenía ni idea. Gracias!

[@sebastiangudino9377]

Nunca he visto uno, pero suena como el dispositivo ideal para explirar en este canal jaja

[@donmoore7785]

My dad made a hygrometer using human hair that hung in his shop. It was a bike spoke, attached to a circular piece he turned on the lathe. The hair was stretched from the top and wrapped around the aluminum piece at the bottom which was on a bearing, and the spoke was slightly off center of its center of gravity and provided the tension. It was also the pointer. He would occasionally ask my my mom for one of her hairs, if the hair needed to be replaced. It worked pretty well.

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love the idea of devices made from human body parts

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Did he drink? I ask because he obviously knows things, so if drinks and knows things. (Tyrion Lynnister quote) Old school dads should all drink and know things :)

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what the heck no music? I never thought I'd be fully Stockholm'd by that sweet sweet sax, but here we are. Edit: Fixed (kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWrPfn6CpdKFi8k)

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Here we are.

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Here WE are

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Just do what I do and listen to it in your head

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Yeh, where did the music go? Did he loose it? Did it run away? I feel empty inside now.

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We are here

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"So, if we take this thing apart through the magic of buying two of them" Alec!!! LOL

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I laughed so hard at that!

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I love the magic of buying two of them!

[@urieltxify]

I'm going to keep complaining until we all start using Kelvins for temperature

[@ukyoize]

We don't even need "temperature" units. Just apply Boltzmann constant to all of them.

[@AkademiaFlirtu]

I occasionally say to my friends: "Oh, boy! It's hot today, over 300 degrees!"

[@mmnootzenpoof]

why would we do that, when the Rankine scale exists?

[@ukko1998]

@@AkademiaFlirtu Kelvin is NOT any kind of "degree" it is Kelvin or K in short, it is temperature unit, so you would not say "300 degrees" you would say "300 kelvin"

[@AkademiaFlirtu]

@@ukko1998 it is possible, in my native language, polish, it is acceptable to say "Kelvin degrees". :) Thanks for correction. :)

[@swbusby]

In college, we used a "wet bulb thermometer" (a thermometer with a damp little cotton sock on the end), that you spin around in the air for awhile, then read the temperature. Then you compare that with the dry temperature, and use some equation which I don't remember to get the relative humidity.

[@motmontheinternet]

1:43 You know it's more fun to just imagine you're in a 60 degree C room with absolutely no sign of discomfort or alarm.

[@mattandsarahaschan]

Eh. He's from the Midwest. That's just a typical summer to us...

[@damien4197]

@@mattandsarahaschan Literal highest recorded mid west temp is a 50C in North Dakota... maybe you were going for hyperbole, but went a bit too far trying to shoehorn in typicality for an entire season... and you still lose to Arizona (53C) ;) Or it could be the conversion thing, again :P" Also, while I'm conversing with someone about the mid west, been meaning to ask... how does that work when the vast majority of the land encompassed is in the eastern half of the continental United States?

[@tanya5322]

@@damien4197 considering that once upon a time, the region now known as the upper Midwest was known as the Northwest... it really isn’t that odd at all. 🤷🏼 Now, if I had the time, I’d include a Hamm’s beer comercial from my childhood “.... the beer that grew with the great northwest. The Hamm’s brewery was in Minneapolis if I’m remembering my childhood correctly. (Maybe St Paul)

[@damien4197]

@@tanya5322 But it IS odd. Because that area was only ever "west" OR "mid" at any one time... sure, it was "the northwest" when the eastern seaboard was all else... but when the west expanded out to the western seaboard, it was no longer west, it was mid... I get there's a little bit of, ahem, history in the way of just being "the north"... but "central states" works just fine, no? East, Mid West, West is as silly as if South Dakota split into two states and named themselves Mid South Dakota and South Dakota :P Of course, then the state of Mid South Dakota located in the Mid West region of the country that claims the name United States of America despite it not at all including every state on either continent bearing the name America... would confuse some Eldritch being into thinking an ancient prophecy had been fulfilled. It's just that silly :P

[@motmontheinternet]

@@damien4197 The midwest was named as such because America acquired land to the west and intended to colonize it, but the majority of the population existed in the "normal" part of America (now called the east coast). The midwest was easily accessible barring the part of it being pretty far from everything, which is still much easier than getting over the giant rocky mountains in order to get to the real west. The stories of how the west coast and midwest were colonized are different, the people that were sent to colonize them were different (for instance, until the world wars, the primary language spoken in your average household in Nebraska was a German or Scandinavian dialect, not English). All of this from the perspective of the East Coast. America didn't have any major cultural centers outside of the East Coast until Hollywood came along, so the historical memory of America in those days was written by people in places like New York and South Carolina.

[@hisham_hm]

No music or credits, but he still graced us with a blooper. Alec, we don't deserve you!

[@michaegi4717]

Cool video, thanks. Few years ago I learned something very interesting about how they measure air humidity at airports. For the flight operations it's more important to know at which point pilots need to expect fog, clouds or icing. Because of this they give the humidity by telling you dew point (temperture at which the water will condense). You can calculate the dew point from relative humidity, but often the dew point is directly measured by cooling a mirror until you see condensing water. I think this is a strange way to measure humidity :-)

[@eh42]

Dew point is interesting very much more relevant/critical. Especially if you live in areas of moderate climate. I have (or am working on ) a logic controller for my HRV unit - which normally serves to remove humidity in winter, but which I use to remove CO2 in summer. The logic will check the outside dew point, and if it is greater than 10C, it will reconsider running the unit since a dew point > 10C will result in an indoor relative humidity > 50% which is not what I want.

[@UnlimitedUtopia]

Or dry bulb and wet bulb like inlearnt at shcool

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I just wanted to say I discovered your channel two weeks ago and I've been watching all of your videos, everyday I learn something new. I absolutely love it. Keep up the good work. I couldn't be more subscribed.

[@felixkuhl6476]

only 9 minutes? I was hoping for an epic 26 minute hygrometer epos. I extra put on my brown corduroy pants

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Don't you mean your 'orange with context' pants? 😉

[@StarCrusher.]

The one case in which a KZbinr went *below* 10 minutes on purpose. What a time to be alive.

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Well last summer KZbin lowered the mid roll ad qualifying video time from 10 minutes to 8

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I see someone's been watching Two Minute Papers as well 😂 "What a time to be alive" is the catchphrase from that channel, after all! EDIT: I see now that the reason I keep getting replies is because the word "the". To clarify: ① There is a well known English phrase: "What a time to be alive". ② The "Two Minute Papers" KZbin channel host Károly Zsolnai-Fehér says this phrase very often. ③ Károly Zsolnai-Fehér did not make this phrase. Its use predates 1994, and was seemingly popularized by a Simpsons Episode from 1998.

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@@PhotonCrasher i hope you know it's just an english idiom idioms.thefreedictionary.com/what+a+time+to+be+alive

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@@PhotonCrasher I'm not sure where "what a time to be alive!" originated, but another place it was popularized was on a Simpsons episode from 1998. (I had to look it up, never watched Simpsons but I saw the meme) I'd like to think it was quoted from Two Minute Papers, though.

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I still remember when it was impossible to upload a video greater than 10 minutes. lol.

[@cs_fl5048]

Love the videos...keep them up. As a physician I got used to using both F and C and both lbs and kgs. I could convert them with sufficient accuracy in my head. The only gripe I had was that between freezing and boiling in F there are 180 degrees and C of course has 100. When doing body temps, one was always having to use decimals. The degrees are "fat" so you had to get an impression in your head that 38.3, which is only a bit over 1 degree is 101 in F. Which is nearly 2½ degrees F and a significant fever. I trust that the younger physicians are more mentally comfortable with it. Of course.... I came along at a time when older guys will still calling for 1/8 grain morphine in the ER. Try converting that in your head!

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Finally somebody pointing out that the °C scale is too damn narrow

[@revmsj]

Yes! When will we strike back against these C° rabble rousers?!✊🏾🤨😒

[@Rsenior1981]

A really good approximation that works well in normal temperature atmospheric temperature ranges and is easier to calculate is F = 2C + 30 or C = (F-30)/2. It's not exact of course, but is much easier to do the math in your head, and gives you a good feeling if you are used to one unit system vs another.

[@revmsj]

My uncle who fled to Canada in the 80s after a…”snow storm in southern South Carolina…” uses that, I’m pretty sure, on the rare occasion I see him and temperature is brought up in conversation.

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The level of snarky humor on this channel is truly masterful.

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Oui! J'adore!

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"No music or credits" he says, as though our minds didn't all launch right into it 🧠🎷🎶

[@Formedras]

[Disappointing lack of smooth jazz]

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Maybe this video had no support from patrons

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Right? I was seriously waiting on something like "aridly smooth" or "swampy jazz"

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Na na na naah na n-naaaaaah...

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Hunny! I am LOVING your hair. It is becoming my almost favorite thing about your videos coming in second right after your videos. One video. Just one video...you gotta style that beast into something wild!

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6:02 "This website I found" Oh Alec, I breathe and live for these jokes.

[@RedPhoenix550]

I know right? I'm still giggling at this XD

[@f.eugenedunnamiii9452]

And yet he didn't include a link. Pretty sloppy.

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Hes such a delight lol

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@@f.eugenedunnamiii9452 your comment makes you come off as a whiny child.

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I would suggest Rolingmetal, that's one l, he is the epitome of one making fun of one's self.

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1:53 Can’t we all just get along? Well, we can at -40 degrees! 😄

[@paulstubbs7678]

I'll leave you to that one, too darn cold for me.

[@nickwallette6201]

Been there. Was not amused by the synchronicity.

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I see what you did there!

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No I need Kelvin to understand

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@@danelfernandez6571 Rankine kicked the crap out of Kelvin and took his lunch money

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How do I suggest a topic? This channel would be a great place to explore motion detectors, as there are many different types out there, and all are fascinating in how they work!

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I think you just did.

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Love the shirt. I had instant flashback to bookshelf in our living room in the 80s filled with VHS tapes recorded over dozens and dozens of times.

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"I start writing the script at the beginning -- it seems to make sense to do it that way" Love ya Alec.

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I can't wait for no-effort November so we can get back to those 5 parters!

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This is Alec's entry for Couldn't-Be-Arsed April...

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How about *Meh* Effort May?

[@masterquest91]

"This is actually a bimetalic strip tease" Youuuuuuu

[@zeblith]

Your "why i think in Fahrenheit" tangent is half the reason I subscribe to this channel

[@HdjhiMC]

In Finland we regularly go from a room heated to 100 degrees C and jump into hole cut into a frozen lake (0 degrees C). So the celsius scale is actually quite appropriate to measure comfortable ambient temperatures.

[@michaelwarren2391]

It all depends on what you're used to using.

[@allenwiddows7631]

Heating a room up to 100°C is quite an achievement, unless it happens to be a walk-in oven (that would be 212°F). I’ve know those that would do a Polar Bear run from a 100°F (37.8°C) to a 0°F (-17.8°C) winter day… Blessings to them…

[@AurumFaber]

@@allenwiddows7631 it's a sauna.

[@walterw2]

maybe the walls or the heat source is 100°C, but the actual ambient air temp being that high would be in "cooking food" territory, i don't see it (edit: looks like i'm wrong though :) )

[@AurumFaber]

@@walterw2 sauna

[@ilcugginocanadese]

As I age I realize that my joints: elbows, ankles, knees, wrists... Are as accurate as a metal strip tease device at measuring humidity.

[@nthgth]

What I'd like to know is... How does the humidity get into the joints, and how is the accuracy not completely destroyed by all the water-based fluids already in there? It's not like a hygrometer works from inside a water tank

[@christophers.8553]

@@nthgth My guess is that our joints are barometers rather than hygrometers. I live in a very dry part of the country and a storm will come in and I'll feel like crap. But the humidity at the ground doesn't change much.

[@thorin1045]

@@nthgth the joints have some fluids in them, which is by need balanced with the outside environment, and the movement of your bones inside that fluid makes it bubbly, producing lots of tiny bubbles, the bubbles collapse, and generate a small "explosion", when you crack your fingers or whatever, these bubbles what you hear. These explosions are giving you lots of data to the very sensitive receptors inside your body, and in time you learn to compare the data to useful information, like humidity, temperature, weather forecast and so on.

[@johno9507]

@@christophers.8553 Exactly right. I have bad arthritis in my shoulder after 10 operations and I can always tell within 24hrs if it's going to rain with about 80% reliability. I started to notice pain in my shoulder was relative to barometric pressure either rising or falling as I have a barometer in my watch. As the shoulder (and other joints) are a sealed fluid filled cavity it makes sense that atmosphere pressure can cause those joints to expand or contract causing pain.

[@TylerDennenMusic]

Just here to say I love your videos, and also that your ENTIRE channel is a wonderful resource for nearly every facet of indoor agriculture

[@pwnmeisterage]

Basically the owners manual for all sorts of home appliances we've often used but never thought about.

[@railgap]

As both a career engineer and an indoor grower, I discovered to my chagrin that measurement of RH is one of the last frontiers of instrumentation. Consider the precision and accuracy with which we can measure infinitessimal amounts of time, or voltage, or wavelengths of light... GAH! ±5% is literally outstanding performance, and it's what the plastic-element units promise but do not, in the field, deliver, and their range is smaller than the range of a classic hair-containing aneroid. What I found was that, for the money, the best accuracy-vs-money deal are european (I think they were German or Swiss - figures) aneroid hygrometers - about $200, which have subsequently been NIST-traceable calibrated in a chamber, making them $250 or $300. The only way to do better is to use a chilled-mirror instrument, which are generally suitable only for lab settings. :/

[@angelobartolomeu5679]

Hello. What's the accuraccy of those? I am looking for a small hygrometer (to fit in a small fridge) that can be accurate to +- 0.1% for my cigars, but as you said it seems that +- 2-3% is the most precise we go

[@jeynarl]

A how-it-feels celcius poem: _30 is hot_ _20 is nice_ _10 is cold_ _0 is ice_

[@joeo3377]

A how-it-feels Fahrenheit poem: _32 is cold as ice_ _but halfway up the scale is nice_ _three quarters up is getting warm_ _over a hundred can do you harm_ _going down the other way_ _one quarter up is a brisk day_ _below zero you should use caution_ _wear a coat or freeze your bottom_

[@Sunlight91]

30-40 🥵 20-30 😎 10-20 🙂 0-10 😑 -10-0 🥶 < -10 🧊

[@jgt2598]

Kelvin or bust!

[@sammiller6631]

That sounds more like a four star rating system, not a temperature scale.

[@joeo3377]

@@Sunlight91 Notice how that scale doesn't get up to 100 and drops significantly below 0. If only there were some alternative where the weather fit more between 0 and 100...

[@jasepoag8930]

This bi-metallic strip tease isn't at all what I thought I was paying for!

[@bradfordd01]

Best line ever

[@onijester56]

Really? Because it got me a damp hot mess. :P

[@3nertia]

@@onijester56 Relative humidity reading? xD

[@lordjaashin]

ya we can all watch the video you know. no need for you to write alexs dialog like you are on to something

[@jasepoag8930]

@@lordjaashin I didn't say exactly what he said. He just called it a bi-metallic strip tease. I added my part, insinuating I thought it was going to be some kind of bisexual robot stripping or something.

[@rodneylives]

You've come so far in information value and presentation style! I really love your videos!

[@scottthemediahoarder]

The specific glance before "I don't want..." at 2:45 is my new favourite. - From a Celsius-lover.

[@mattbonaccio3522]

Had to hit pause at "bimetallic strip tease" that was priceless

[@Ripplin]

I made a human hair hygrometer for a science project many years ago. Asked a friend with really long hair for a strand or two, so it was really a two-person effort, haha.

[@stonyrerootkit8922]

I did that also, in 7nth grade. It worked quite well!! The Teacher gave me a B+ grade! 🍀🌈🆒🌸🐺

[@artyemsie]

Thank you for always providing conversions. It is much appreciated!

[@reconciliation86]

I have indeed noticed...your content is always excellent and well-researched. keep up the good work!

[@iinvaderrand]

Dude your sass is amazing.

[@Galerak1]

@@HankPanky I misread it after reading your comment. Does that count? lol

[@iinvaderrand]

Why not both?

[@AzazelMango]

Gotta love misreads

[@tildejustin]

Why not all?

[@shirou9790]

rofl

[@DeviantOllam]

Yes to simplicity, yes to turn-y things, yes to jokes. We're here for all of it. Also, these videos have given me the additional benefit of realizing that I have been calling something by the wrong name for a long time. My grandfather was a Special Agent in the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Tax service (as it was then named) back in the 30s and 40s. While most of the stories we heard about were from his time during prohibition, a great deal of what he and the others did was enforce basic regulatory things such as proof standards for distilled liquor. We still have some of his tools and accessories... including the lead shot filled long glass instruments that would use specific gravity to measure alcohol content. I had long referred to these as hygrometers and only now when googling did I realize they are actually called hydrometers. The more I know! 🌈🌟

[@rogervanbommel1086]

How does this work? This video is only up 8 minutes

[@rogervanbommel1086]

And you commented 23 hour ago

[@DeviantOllam]

@@rogervanbommel1086 i snuck in early... lockpicking and all that, you know. 😉👍🔓

[@BillPickle]

@@rogervanbommel1086 Content creators will often upload a video as unlisted and share the link with their friends/patrons/twitter followers, etc. The notification goes out when the video is switched from unlisted to public

[@stu729]

@@DeviantOllam So there is co-viewership between Technology Connections and LockPickingLawyer??

[@Bandrik]

I appreciated the snark regarding temperature scales and the ease of being able to covert readings using most internet search tools. :)

[@MiniMii550]

Anyone else noticing how his hair has been slowly but surely growing from one video to the next?

[@brendaleelydon]

We have. And it looks great! But Alec usually looks great, so that's no real surprise. The longer hair goes with his 'work uniform' in a way I wouldn't have anticipated when it was shorter. It's a great look for him! I hope his 'everyday' look is similar to his work clothes, because it works really well for him. 😊 But even if the longer hair is just a covid thing & the shorter hair makes a summer return, he'll still look fantastic, so it's all good.

[@jorgendnilsson]

It's for the follow up-video where he'll transform himself into a hygrometer.

[@daibhiseaghdha153]

he can't find the switch to stop it growing.

[@tenders]

He’s obviously planning to start a hygrometer factory.

[@ProjectAzar]

How does one get to be this snarky without becoming terminally ironic. I don't know but I love it. The fact that you came back from the blackout to essentially make a joke calling out the blackout and then blacking out mid sentence. *Chef's kiss*

[@Kathrynerius]

I've only ever seen one person use "Chef's kiss" before, haha.

[@emilyz4104]

"Hey y'all, I got a bit of metal. Now I'mma put some hair on that thing and tell y'all about the weather."

[@nerraw28]

I woke up this morning to the only local friend I had saying they no longer wanted to be friends. All I have wanted to do since then was your videos. I opened KZbin and there you were. 3 minutes in and I'm back in a good mood. Than you - you will never understand the impact you have had on my life.

[@garykuovideos]

Very cool! One of my violin cases contains both a thermometer and hydrometer and I was happy to see that the scale on the latter was not linear. Also, thanks for sparing me from having to buy another case!

[@tengelgeer]

1:45 That wasn't even my first thought. That was "holy cow, that's a huge thermometer!"

[@Keithustus]

Had one for years as a kid. For posting to a tree a couple dozen feet from the house, in shade, to be seen from a window. Works perfectly. Meanwhile my wife installed an electronic sensor/transmitter thermometer.....right next to the house, where it does NOT read the actual environmental temperature, because the signal is too weak to survive through the walls.

[@diegosanchez894]

"to explain how these little guys work, we first need to understand the refrigeration cycle..."

[@lessgoofyone]

LATENT HEAT

[@catfish552]

Truly the "First, jack up your car" of this channel.

[@ScribeAwoken]

as soon as you mentioned that it's paper and metal I was just like "oh, it's the same principle that makes (poorly-made) foil trading cards curl. neat."

[@bulwynkl]

One of my favourite examples of measuring relative humidity was a paper that looks at the changes in differential GPS timing to measure the refractive index of the upper atmosphere (about 2% of its line of site traversal) between the satellite and the ground station. This was converted into relative humidity. because the satellite moves, they were able to map the atmosphere tomographically... so yeah. You can always make it more complicated...

[@ItsHaldun]

"And then it just snowballs into a five part series." -Suggested: The CED (RCA Selectavision Videodisc) Nice.

[@bradportwood1321]

"This website I found"....Wikipedia LOL

[@mustashnob]

Wait how did you post this a day ago

[@SupaPhly0]

@@mustashnob patreon, members get to watch earlier, sometimes up to a week. same applies to lgr and techmoan

[@mustashnob]

@@SupaPhly0 oh that makes more senes thanks

[@bradportwood1321]

@@mustashnob special powers and a time travel machine. 🤣 Actually, I’m a Patron, so I get access to the videos 24 hours earlier than their public release.

[@amalirfan]

You might be new here.

[@pmiecz]

As always, very informative and entertaining, great job Mr. Señor.

[@CorrosionX4]

I have to say your comedic timing is getting better and better

[@godsgranddad]

Can't wait for the next 4 parts of this video

[@DeviantOllam]

Hahaha totally. We're all here for it.

[@Elmojomo]

Your little side rant about the inanity of the great C/F wars made my day. Some of us use the metric system, some of us don't, get over it! When I watch European TV (or KZbin videos from overseas, for that matter), I don't expect them to provide imperial unit conversions for everything. Why can't we just embrace our differences?

[@_efault]

As the proud owner of a self-built “pumidor” (humidor for Pu’er tea) I really appreciate this! I use a self regulating humidifier meant for cigars but here and there I’ll throw the analog hygro in at a different observation point to ensure the RH at the different levels. Thanks for this !

[@bwiltse2620]

Just in case the other 100 people who mentioned the same thing weren't enough - I missed the music. And I love your snark haha. Thanks for being awesome!

[@Kara_Kay_Eschel]

Here is the music kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXPaqZiJjtmEfpI

[@corwin881]

You are one of the reasons why I am glad to live in this day and age. Where people like you can do what you do. Thank you.

[@nate8088]

Amen to that.

[@DyslexicMitochondria]

He's literally the reason i started my own channeI

[@mattearenzi8972]

@@DyslexicMitochondria Sweet channeI you got there bud

[@MikehMike01]

This day and age is the worst to live in. KZbin doesn’t fix that.

[@bjarnenilsson80]

@@MikehMike01 relax covid will ( for a lot of places) be a largely solved problem by the end of this year, as long as the anti vaxs nuts get shut down and don't convunce to many people. Ok maybe we'll need a yearly booster shot otrit might just become the yearly flue, anyway we will be able yto largely return to the pre covid normal. Ok wether rtgat sucked or not is ofc another depate IMHO it far from sucked but you milage may wary

[@richardfellows5041]

Some years ago we were characterizing a component with respect to humidity. Unfortunately we didn't have a proper environmental chamber. It turns out you can put the component in a small sealed chamber that also contains a tub of a saturated brine. Different salts in the brine will keep the humidity constant a certain level dependent on the salt. Having two chambers set up using different salts allowed easy changes in relative humidity.

[@fedemtz6]

I would love a video on what's the best relative humidity for your house taking into consideration AC/Heater performance, electronics, furniture, etc. Great video btw

[@andykrew336]

Last time I was this early I was uneducated about brown.

[@michaelladue5655]

You mean ORANGE!!!!

[@adamwishneusky]

I love your shots that slowly circle-strafe the object like they do in the intro of How It's Made episodes 😃

[@adamwishneusky]

I’m sure that’s the correct term photographers use 🤪

[@CaptainKronk]

I like when your video spiral out of control into four parts. it’s part of your channels charm

[@mjshofar]

Commenting to help the algorithm. I have nothing meaningful to add, you’re doing a great job. I couldn’t say anything to make your show better. I’ve been watching for awhile now and My two small boys (3&9) watch your videos because my older boy wants to be an engineer.

[@jeynarl]

A good follow-up to this if you want to really delve into humidity is talking about how ASHRAE psychrometric charts work (wet bulb, dry bulb temps, dew point, the works). Just an idea 😉

[@thatclintguy]

I would love to see this!

[@matthewwhite546]

The credits music played in my head anyway.

[@AtlasReburdened]

Yup.

[@andrewdenby8239]

Always as entertaining as it is informative watching your videos, keep them coming, snark and all....

[@HelloKittyFanMan....]

Haha, Alec, I loved your point-out that any complaint they write that you didn't convert temperatures for them would take more effort than just converting it themselves!

[@T.O.A.D.U.K]

Anyone else remember that specific Scotch VHS tape cover on his shirt? I want that shirt now.

[@NOWThatsRichy]

Yes, Scotch used that logo design from the mid 80's to early 90's.

[@jgildert]

I still have the VHS tapes and sleeves!!!

[@merendell]

I'm prety sure if I dug the old boxes of VHS tapes from when I was a kid out of storage I'd find a few of those dust covers in there.

[@michaelwarren2391]

@@jgildert Me, too! And some older!

[@Volksgeist]

Always hyped for these videos

[@omniyambot9876]

I care.

[@vyladence]

our pfps are eerily similar

[@AshiwiZuni]

Please make a video on the gorillaz discography!!! Ill implode!

[@tedundercarriage8183]

your name triggers me

[@gnarlestongnu637]

Low quality comment from a check mark. I wish adblocker dealt with these.

[@kperkins1982]

I don't know what it is about this guy. I won't watch a 5 minute video of somebody doing something I think should be a 2 minute video, but I can listen to him talk about the super weird and complex ways in which a doorknob works for a full on hour and still want more. Don't know if it is the cadence of his voice, the snarky humor or the interesting subject matter but whatever it is keep it up, youtube needs more of it.

[@sebas1111_]

Man, I love your rants and tangents

[@jomiar309]

I forgot how much I enjoy the magic of buying two of them. This is, like, your channel's trademark at this point.

[@kutsen39]

I love the mentions of boosting engagement as well

[@radicalxedward8047]

I really like the mix of shorter and longer content. Like sometimes it’s nice to just quickly get to the point of how something works, and sometimes it’s nice to see stuff like how TVs work that go more in depth.

[@Crazylrishguy]

I'm never going to get old of these videos, I don't even care what technology he's talking about anymore. I'm sure this guy could get me excited about drying paint at this point

[@Sammie1053]

You may already know this but the idea of "something that seems puzzling at first but then absolutely obvious once you know it" is called a threshold concept! A few of my university courses specifically focused on threshold concepts related to my major, they're a really great concept (no pun intended) for assessing knowledge acquisition.

[@BlakeB415]

"Those humans. So clever." Alec is an alien confirmed.

[@DisgruntledDoomer]

That would also explain how "they" (2:53) are aware of the silliness of imperial units - because _americans_ never seem to be!

[@Korium84]

It's amazing that after watching this channel from its early days to now.....the quirky knowledge and humor still fit.

[@justingibson1012]

Without music and credits?? I feel like I'm not finished watching. Honestly I couldn't be sure I just watch something from Technology Connections were it not for the whole linear scaling, Farinheight > Celsius search engine tangent, the sett...well everything really! Keep up the good work man, I LIVE your channel!!

[@DeminicusSCA]

hygrometer vs hydrometer !!!! dang this whole time i thought it was just hydrometer and the two different instruments were homonyms when you said "Hi-Grow-miter" i thought you were just messing with us.

[@joecraskki3175]

"I'm going on a tangent" *Proceeds to spend half the video going on a tangent about F to c conversation* I'm all here for it.

[@dreamhose6059]

That lack of credits just mean one thing... Part 2 confirmed

[@nom3nnescio]

well he said 5 parts so..

[@vilod]

Love your shirt. I used that tape to record all my favorite shows back in the 80's.

[@porknsteak]

You're the first person I saw to call out everyone who always cries about Ferenheit. Good on you!