It is where the vast majority of the noise from a compressor comes from. Basically when you’re looking at the front of the compressor the only thing between you and the cylinder/ valve is that paper filter and maybe a screen.
Any cheap hygrometer or psychrometer should be able to give you a decent relative humidity measurement of the ambient air conditions.
Oh my bad I meant the actual humidity of the compressed air. Curious to see how well my setup works. I have been trying to slowly improve it.
Well that’s a totally different ball game. The hygrometers and psychrometers are good for atmospheric pressures. When we get into the world of high pressure air and moisture we start looking at devices that do pressure dew point monitoring.
If you look at pressure dew point monitoring equipment it is quite expensive. Measuring the moisture content of compressed air can be tricky and it’s the reason why there’s no home gamer pressure dew point monitoring.
I have a field piece multimeter amp meter that I like very much. Fieldpiece makes good equipment.
The description said vent and such. My thoughts was you may get a idea by running the probe into a air hose while flowing. I assumed it would be pricey is one reason I never dug in.
Yeah primarily they use those probes as either an ambient air or an in duct measurement tool.
The pressure difference between ductwork and your air compressor is absolutely enormous.
The kind of pressure we’re talking and residential duct work is maybe up to 1 water columns. And if we are looking at a blow pipe pipe dust extraction system for a shop maybe 6.5 in water column.
How to put this in perspective one PSI equals 27.72" wc
Your compressed air system is running 100psi about 2700 times as much pressure compared to what a typical maximum pressure would be in a residential duct setup.
I tried it a while back on a very small scale. The only drawback was in my trial the beads that were touching melted together. If spread thin enough not to touch, worked fine.
Again, very small trial and I didn’t write down microwave power setting and time, but it was less than 5 mins and they turned blue.
Edit: one other tip I have is I put a folded 4 layer thick piece of clear plastic wrap over the top of my original 1 gallon plastic bead container and screw the lid on over that clear wrap. I can keep my beads out in the humidity all Summer and they stay bright blue.
I am pretty sure the last beads I bought says to use the defrost mode. Maybe you microwave was too hot?
Microwave Ovens operate on Pulse Width Modulation to ‘control’ temperature. They are either FULL on or FULL off in some ratio over a fixed interval (like 10 seconds). Even in Defrost mode whatever is in the oven will get FULL ON for some period of time. 10% power? Sure. FULL ON for one second out of 10. I would never use a MW oven for anything delicate.
I was unsure of the exact process. I can remember my parents bought one way back I can remember hearing it cycle. Well that is the way I could describe what I remember.
thanks for confirming.
Man, that’s allot of sweat on that sucker!! looks like me trying to figure out how to manage Christmas and our anniversary being 5 days apart. 
Ever been down to the swamps of E/SE Texas? That’s walking outside on any given summer day.
What about when you told the wife you had already ordered the 3d printer?
When I first bought the dryer I didnt have a real good setup. I had to try it out so I set it next to the plasma and plumbed it in with quick connects… Yeah she froze up.
People that visit here from Hotter but dryer climates say it feels hotter than it is. That being due to the humidity.
HA you got me there!
I haven’t been to VA, I would like to see it sometime. I lived in the south for a couple years. Southern Arkansas, Louisiana and southern Mississippi… In Mississippi I would soak my shirt walking across the street!
It is home! All I have even known. I went to Mexico and Florida as a teenager. Didn’t see anything that impressed me.
The only level ground I own is a 50x50 spot that is fill dirt. All on the shopping centers and hospitals are on old reclaimed strip mines.
Come on up just bring your stuff with you! You may never want to leave😎.
This is our new building lot we are getting ready to build on this summer. Its dead flat. We are going to have to bring in some fill to raise the house a bit… I want it slightly above the level of the road
Looking West
Looking East
If I get home before dark I will shoot you a view from home… if not this weekend.
Usually it’s the volume of dessicant in the unit and flow rate that gets better as you spend more.
We built in Western NC last year. The main floor of the house is 26 ft below road grade. The ground level off the back is 25 ft below the main floor. We have a 15 ft tall “crawl” space 
The foundation cost me more than our last house 
Dead flat can be good.
Amazing to me that in this day of mfg tech that there’s not a plethora of options for just material weight cost for whatever volume of desiccant you want to hold in even a detached housing if necessary. These inline filter designs have been around forever now it seems.
For recharging silica beads, remember that water boils at 100C or 212F. You will need at least that much, but not much more to recharge silica. A few hours at 250F has been my go to until they turn a deep blue. I use a small counter top convection oven for the process.
