Maybe overthinking this but having recently got back into bass after many years off I'm trying to create a stable room to keep my basses in. I never worried about any of this stuff in my youth but testing shows humidity to stay around 80% here on wet days which is a little bit high in my mind.
I've been running a dehumidifier to good effect and got it down to 50%, but my other concern is temperature fluctuation - unlikely to be too much of an issue here tbf but still want to try and work out best practice.
I don't have a typical thermostat system that maintains a consistent temp by turning heating off/on when it goes above/below a set temperature. Instead, I've got storage heaters which come on at night and then slowly release the heat during the day. All you can do is set them on/off and change the input/output to determine how much heat they store at night and how slowly this is released throughout the day (although it's usually pretty much gone by late evening and heaters are only mildly warm to the touch).
So you have this situation whereby it's starting to get cool in the house towards late evening but then the heaters suddenly come on at midnight and it gets gradually warm - this is different from other houses that maintain a steady 20C, for example.
So I keep the basses in their cases, on the other side of room from the heater, and I leave the door open so the room doesn't get too hot too quick. My only thought now is that without the door closed it's going to be hard to maintain the correct humidity, so I'm wondering how bad it is if the basses gradually warm up and cool down each day?
To be clear, this isn't a rapid change like if I used the built in fan heaters in the wall. The storage units are basically like chunky radiators that give off passive heat rather than blowing hot air, but the house is still going from cool to warm every day (never really too cold though).
I'm not too worried. Just wondering whether to keep basses in a sealed room at correct humidity or whether to open doors to allow air flow but at the cost of the former. My dehumidifier is quite powerful (20L) but isn't the type that comes on and off automatically so for the last few months during which I haven't needed the heating on I've just been running the DH with doors closed in the evening and leaving them shut overnight when I turn it off to maintain the level.
I've been running a dehumidifier to good effect and got it down to 50%, but my other concern is temperature fluctuation - unlikely to be too much of an issue here tbf but still want to try and work out best practice.
I don't have a typical thermostat system that maintains a consistent temp by turning heating off/on when it goes above/below a set temperature. Instead, I've got storage heaters which come on at night and then slowly release the heat during the day. All you can do is set them on/off and change the input/output to determine how much heat they store at night and how slowly this is released throughout the day (although it's usually pretty much gone by late evening and heaters are only mildly warm to the touch).
So you have this situation whereby it's starting to get cool in the house towards late evening but then the heaters suddenly come on at midnight and it gets gradually warm - this is different from other houses that maintain a steady 20C, for example.
So I keep the basses in their cases, on the other side of room from the heater, and I leave the door open so the room doesn't get too hot too quick. My only thought now is that without the door closed it's going to be hard to maintain the correct humidity, so I'm wondering how bad it is if the basses gradually warm up and cool down each day?
To be clear, this isn't a rapid change like if I used the built in fan heaters in the wall. The storage units are basically like chunky radiators that give off passive heat rather than blowing hot air, but the house is still going from cool to warm every day (never really too cold though).
I'm not too worried. Just wondering whether to keep basses in a sealed room at correct humidity or whether to open doors to allow air flow but at the cost of the former. My dehumidifier is quite powerful (20L) but isn't the type that comes on and off automatically so for the last few months during which I haven't needed the heating on I've just been running the DH with doors closed in the evening and leaving them shut overnight when I turn it off to maintain the level.
