Temp in Air VS humidity...anyone else here of this.....
Joeyjoe21_8
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So i know hays, you already told me but just getting feedback lol...check out this link
http://www.bonitasmokeshop.com/cigar_humidor_information_daniel.htm
Scroll down to the humidity chart, where it says if ur temp is high, your humidity should be lower...what do you all think?
http://www.bonitasmokeshop.com/cigar_humidor_information_daniel.htm
Scroll down to the humidity chart, where it says if ur temp is high, your humidity should be lower...what do you all think?
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By there chart you would need it to rain on your stogies if the temp gets to 60 LOL
As long as my RH is 65% or less (down as low as 62%) I'm a happy camper.
Marty
most of us keep our houses below 80 and above 60 so 65-66% in the summer. 68- 70% in the winter. i didnt look at the chart at all.... not sure what they had to say. thats what i have been trying over the last year. ive been happy with the burns and flavor all year.
but i like to deal in reality. many many people keep their houses within a 15 degree area all year. at that point a one point difference in rH wont mean a damn thing.
Joey, yo're not reading the info correctly, it's trying to tell you how to adjust your hygrometer so it will read 70%RH at 70F!
As air becomes heated, or any gas for that matter, it's molecules become more excited and move appart, air of course is not a gas itself but a mixture, a mixture in which water (H2O) in it's gas form can be part of the mixture, water is peculiar in itself in that it can exist in gaseous form below its boiling point, 100celsius (sorry don't know what it is in Fahrenheit), so the higher the temperature the more easily water can exist in gaseous form in air and the greater the amount of water can exist in a given volume of air before 100% saturation is achieved, which is why the gulf coast states, SE Texas where I am frequently has an RH > 70% particularly at this time of year; also, Antartica for example would have an RH of 0% typically, since the air temperature would frequently be well below freezing so water would immediately become ice crystals and precipitate from air in this case 0% hmidity is also 100%RH since the air is holding as much water vapor as it can (zero!!!).
What the article and chart are telling you is if you get yor humidor to 49%RH at 80degrees, and assuming it is completely sealed (air-tight) and you drop the temperature to 70degrees, your RH will be at 70%. But what we want to do is keep it at 70% all the time and keep the temp as close to 70deg F as we can, also the humidor has some exchange of air, that is desirable in fact so your always going to have air with a different RH entering the humidor, but as long as you keep it as close to 70/70 as you can your cigars will stay in optimum condition.
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