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Originally Posted by lastlight (Post 647282)

The fan is not noisy I was thinking more about prolonging the life of it. It was only $40 tho... maybe I'll allow it to maintain a constant humidity as is and just replace the guts if she fries. Time will tell I guess.

when I did mine it ran for 1 week pretty much constant untill it drew the humidity of the house down from 98 to 45% after this it would come on and off for the next 10 years. never hurt the fan at all. so I wouldn't worry about that. if you fan does fail, like you said it was 40 bucks, and buying just the motor that fits inside the housing is probably about 25 bucks.. and takes about 10 min to switch out. deal with it when it dies.

Steve

Yeah good call that's what I'll do. It's doing it's job perfectly as is. Still feels humid in there relative to the rest of the house... as soon as you exit the fishroom and you're in front of the tank you get that awesome calgary dry-air-nosebleed feeling again.

You could look at getting an IAQ digital humidistat. Search on google or Amazon for digital IAQ. I think Honeywell makes a bunch. The digital ones should do what you want I think.