Got a new thermometer
So funny thing, I caved in to consumerism and decided to buy a thermometer. Not the basic kind, the one with humidity as well.
I’ve been eyeing for this type of thermometer for a while already. Where I live the humidity is constantly high, but I remember hearing that an air conditioner reduces the temperature as well as the humidity, and I’m curious by how much. Also my room has been too humid (humid is not the word I really want to use. there’s a word in my native language for this, but humid is close enough. just imagine it’s the hot variant) to the point that I’m having headaches if I stay in there for too long at any one time. I want to see how the temperature and humidity is at that time, as the temperature seems to be constantly above 30C. Pictured below is a close approximation to what I bought.
Hopefully I did my markdown correctly and the image loads, if not the alt text should suffice. Anyways, I inserted the battery (that came with it) and hey presto, it sprang to life! The humidity updated pretty quickly, though that’s probably because I moved it around the house and went through an air conditioned living room. It hovers around 70% humidity (don’t know if it’s high in comparison to other places).
I tried to do somewhat of a test in my room to compare the humidity and temperature without and with air conditioning (at night as of now, I have to wait until the weekends until I can check for morning). Before I turned on the air conditioner, it settled around 32C with a humidity of 71%. After letting the air conditioner to do its course it went down to 26C with a humidity of 44%. Honestly I didn’t anticipate the humidity would drop by that much (I thought it’ll only go down to 55% at most), so that’s a surprise.
So yeah that’s all that I think I’ll write for today. It’s pretty nice seeing these sorts of metrics. I wouldn’t have imagined these type of stuff was viable at a cheap price point the past few years. No wonder people buy a lot of stuff online :P
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