Answer by Bart Silverstrim for How would you measure the amount of...
Another idea that's homebrew; use a small box fan, covered in a "filter" material. Cover one side of the fan with that material (fabric softener sheets? Actual air filters for home AC units?) and let...
View ArticleAnswer by Journeyman Geek for How would you measure the amount of atmospheric...
I've seen a large trolley mounted monitoring device in a shopping mall before, but it may be overkill. For a quick and dirty check, VERY bright light, or a green laser pointer might do (dust will...
View ArticleAnswer by ewwhite for How would you measure the amount of atmospheric dust in...
You could go with a standard APC NetBotz solution. They've added external particulate sensors to the sensor suite. This would give you thresholding, SNMP and alert capabilities versus some of the...
View ArticleAnswer by Bart Silverstrim for How would you measure the amount of...
In addition to particle counters, would it be out of the question to get small household air filters and get an idea of whether this is really a problem by measuring the dirt buildup in the filters? I...
View ArticleAnswer by Sven for How would you measure the amount of atmospheric dust in a...
First step would be a "househould" particle counter which you can get for around 200$, e.g. at Amazon.
View ArticleAnswer by Brent Pabst for How would you measure the amount of atmospheric...
Sounds like some push back from the vendor, but either way we used to have Air Particulate Meters in an old pharma company I worked for. They basically will measure everything in the air and tell you...
View ArticleHow would you measure the amount of atmospheric dust in a server room?
We've been advised by our tape library vendor that one of the reasons we might be seeing lots of errors is if our server room is particularly dusty. It doesn't look dusty, but that's not to say it's...
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