Ive used Govee hygrometers for years now and like the fact that I can see things remotely albeit within Bluetooth range but allows for VPD as well as temps and RH.
Being in Ohio the weather, like many places, can change on a dime and when it was 5F outside external air was next to zero in moisture content and caused me to go though a lot of RO water feeding my humidifiers to keep up.
Well for the last week out temps went up to 40’s and 50,s and rained much of the time so I was using less water but lights out my temps go from around 81F to around 70F and while I have my humidifiers on timers to shut off during lights out and fire back up when lights come on there was that 6 hour period where my humidity wouldn’t really drop much but increased and temps dropped. I was running another 70 pint dehumidifier in another room that I’ve used for the basement and adjusted the setting to run down to 50RH but it wasn’t enough as the basement is approx 1,800 Sq ft and it wasn’t affecting the tent humidity much.
I have 5 plants in various stages of flower and another 6 still in veg.
In order to avoid any possible issues with high humidity causing issues related to WPM etc I looked into getting another dehumidifier to place in the room with the tent.
I decided to look at the big box store to see prices and what they had available as well as checking out Govee as in their app I use on phone they show a but load of other products.
After researching I decided on the model H7151 Govee dehumidifier.
Amazon had in at $299 with a $100 discount so ended up $200 which was less than a less capable (feature wise) than the big box store.
It was delivered yesterday and after letting it set and settle from shipping for several hours (not the instructions 24 hours) I started playing with it.
As many here experience issues with available amps to run their setups this too was a challenge as I wanted in the tent room (not in the tent) while it was running.
I had some issues with it popping the breakers at first. I knew it would be close to the limit and after running for maybe 20-30 min it would pop. My house is almost exclusively 15 amp breakers.
Govee draws 7.5 amps on start up and just under 5 amps running as I understand it.
Had 2 humidifiers hooked to timers with an inkbird it-608T controller set to shut down for the 6 hours lights off so that as my temps dropped about 10F the humidifiers wouldn’t run to maintain the RH setting on the inkbird as the inkbird has no way of adjusting things based on time.
2 humidifiers total 3amps
2 fans about 2-3 amps
Therabulb far red light bulb 2 amps (comes on 20 min before lights out and runs 20 min after as well as when lights coming back on.
All things running pushed the breaker off after a bit.
What’s cool about the Govee is that you can use the app same as the hygrometers and it allows you to set time on and off so I set it to come on and run from when humidifiers are set off and run until just before humidifiers come back on eliminating the power issue while still allowing my far red light to run.
Also it allowed me to sync with the Govee hygrometer in the tent using its RH readings as the “probe” inside the tent and set the RH to be at 50% so the dehumidifier would run until it reached 50% inside the tent as opposed to inside the room which went down to like 37%.
Only running for 6 hours I don’t think I’ll need to run a drain hose into the other room at this time. The tank hold 2 gallons and when I dump it will go into my humidifier buckets.
Last night it filled the bucket with about 1/2 to 3/4 of a gallon.
Anyway just thought I’d share my experience today with my new smart dehumidifier that also has the recover feature in case of power outage/breaker trip!
They have a smaller version offered with similar feature just smaller bucket and daily pint rating but for $60 more it was worth getting the larger one (except for power draw lol)
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Subject to change because ya never know.
My timers are 1 hour off from current time as I leave them set for summertime clock.
Enjoy the day and stay relatively dry