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Posted by Joseph Meehan on August 8, 2005, 11:31 pm
mooredan@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a top exhaust furnace with an evap coil installed.
> I'm going to install a Honeywell HE440 steam humidifier and have a few
> questions about the installation location. Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
>
> - Please refer to the diagram below.
>
>
> - Where would be the optimum location for install? I assume that the
> answer to this would be on the vertical rise after the evap coil using
> a duct extension and as shown in the following document:
>
>
>
http://electronicaircleaners.com/database/documents/honeywell_he480_product_data.pdf
>
>
> - What if I do not have enough vertical run of the existing duct to
> add the duct extension? Then I must install the humidifier on one of
> the horizontal ducts coming after the vertical outlet. Is there an
> issue with this? Will the rooms in the house supplied by the duct in
> which the humidifier is installed be "wetter" than the rooms supplied
> by the other side of the horizontal duct? ...or will everything reach
> equilibrium at some point.
>
>
> - If I where to add a duct extension on the vertical outlet, should
> some sort of deflector be installed in the duct to get the air to flow
> over the top of the humifier's tank? If so, how should the deflector
> be constructed and how should it be placed in the duct.
>
>
> Dan
>
>
> ---------------------------------
> <--- ---->
> ------| |----------------
> | |
> -----------
> | |
> | Evap |
> | coil |
> -----------
> | |
> | Furnace |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> | |
> =================================
You really want to get it away from any working parts of the furnace.
They have a reputation of adding a lot of dusty deposits on anything near or
down stream from them.
Have you considered and weighted the problems related to this kind of
unit?
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
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