Quote Originally Posted by Inknsteel View Post
Are you sure that your Accurite didn't get water spilled on it or get peed on or something? If you have the UTH hooked to a dimmer, you shouldn't have to worry about the UTH getting too hot. Just turn it down! I would recommend dumping the substrate and switching to plain white paper towels and see what effect that has. If you switch out to paper towels and the humidity still reads that high, I'd say either it suddenly got ultra-humid in your home or that the accurite is malfunctioning... I don't think that your bp will suffer for it, unless the high humidity gets mixed with low temps, then you could be at risk for RI.

I'm positive that the accurite didn't get wet in any way because it's about an inch or so above the substrate.

You would think that I shouldn't have to worry about the UTH getting too hot being on the dimmer but I'm constantly checking temps and from time to time I have to make adjustments. I just don't want to take any chances because the dimmers are not as reliable as I would like them to be. I wish I could afford a more reliable method but for the time being, this is all that I have.

I'll give the aspen some time and if that doesn't work then we will consider the newspaper. Right now my temps are 82.6 and 90.7.