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Flow meters, micromanometers, power monitors, and circuit sensors are all in Doug Horgan’s bag of tricks for sleuthing out and tightening up building performance. In this third installment of a four-part series on Green Building Advisor, Horgan runs down some of the specific instruments his team relies on to measure what the rest of us usually guess at.
Omnisense has a somewhat expensive but very practical (i.e. easy to use) setup designed to record wood moisture content over the long term. Another method is to wire up a piece of wood with pins connected to a reader—this measures long-term moisture within insulation or other locations where common humidity meters are not suitable. (Standard humidity sensors are only suitable for places where condensation doesn’t happen). Read more.