Horse Hair Humidistat

The humidistat shown in the pictures is from Dave Miller of The Waldinger Corporation. This sensor was salvage from his home and used horse hair as the controls element. Animal hair turns out to be a pretty good way to measure the humidity. The length of a strand of hair changes with different relative humidity levels. As the relative humidity increases, hair becomes longer, and as the humidity drops it becomes shorter.

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