Humidity ranges?

Jeff Kell jeff-kell at utc.edu
Tue Aug 5 03:35:24 UTC 2003


Todd Mitchell - lists wrote:

> | and when I should
> | complain to the datacenter operators? (References I can point to would
> | be nice.)
> 
> When your equipment starts to rust ;)
> 
> I don't have any technical references, but I think that anything over
> 65% is probably too much.  Most facilities I have equipment in do not
> exceed that mark.

It isn't a *huge* issue (within reason) unless you have printers around 
and the inherent paper.  Big lasers are notoriously finicky about 
humidity, which directly affects the paper quality.

Otherwise, just keep it well below the dewpoint :-)

Jeff




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