04-14-2021 12:24 AM
Multiple tests failed to validate the water mass conservation within sealed small air containers. The water content grows while the container is heated and reduce when cooled. How come ? How does the humidity capacitive sensor behave if a group of water molecule coalesce together but the group remains airborne? Is the temperature a truly dry bulb temperature? Where to look to get the water mass conservation right?
I am not a programmer nor an electronic technician, so I picked up an assembled SparkFun Atmospheric Sensor BME280 with Arduino prototyping board. I used an I2C connection and Adafruit program library on Arduino program running on a Mac. The data was treated through and Excel sheet using functions from ASHRAE Psychrometric analysis to find the specific humidity W, expressed in kg of water / kg of air. Various containers were used to discard any effect of adsorbtion or generation of unwanted gas through the test setup. Here is an example of a test result.
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04-29-2021 07:21 AM
Hello Nary,
For your test environment, you have to ensure your test environment is correct.
If you are developping a product, you'd better contact local technical support to give you suggestions.