Wednesday, August 10, 2016

42: DHT22 Update of Post 39

Well, my sensor inside a cut-off water bottle failed after a couple days. So I put the next try inside a opaque plastic box that is sealed except for 2 screen-covered 1" holes. But the thing that makes it work (I think) is the tiny fan that blows directly on the DHT22. It still stops working briefly when the humidity reaches 100% but it then recovers after an hour or so. To make this work I had to increase the 5v power to the Photon to 2.4 amps.

I also tried the HIH-4030 sensor in the same environment. Guess what: it stops working at 100% RH, too.

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