operating conditions of saunas

[mechanicaldup]

what is the normal operating conditions for saunas (°C db, %RH)

when will you sweat more: higher or lower %RH?

thks
have a nice day

 

[ChrisConley]

Depends if it is a dry sauna or a wet sauna (seriously).

I sweat more when the RH is high.... so do most people.

 

[quark]

Perspiration is the mechanism to maintain body temperature of warm blooded animals when ambient temperature is higher than 98.4deg.F. So warm blooded bodies sweat irrespective of high or low RH as long as the DBT is higher than 98.4deg.F. But perspiration is either visible or invisible.

When it is low RH, water pushed out of the body already evaporates and you don't find sweating on your body. With low RH, the vapor pressure of air is low(so the pressure difference and diffusion) and there is more sweating yet you don't feel it.

Higher DBTs and lower RH worsen the condition by draining out more body fluids and this subsequently results in dehydration.

 

[mechanicaldup]

let us asume it is a wet sauna.

so we can suspect to sweat more at a lower %RH/?

 

[pennpoint]

mechanicaldup
Lower R/H??, Have ye never been to Florida, Man?
No! not necessarily, your body sweats in an effort to cool its self through evaporative cooling. After awhile without proper hydration (water comsumption) it will shutdown and you will expire from hyperthermia (opposed to hypothermia).
Where are you going with this?
The dryer the air the more it can evaporate from your skin a therefore cool.

I hope this helps some.

Best Regards
pennpoint