Hygrometers
I know to most, it's nothing new, but to some, it's hard to believe to the fullest.
I recently bought a larger humidor to replace my old one. It worked great, but was not big enough to really put in a hygrometer and right sized humidifier and with 15 or so various sized sticks was pretty much packed. I'll use it for bulk storage I think.
So, the new humidor of course came with an analog hygrometer and I calibrated it knowing it may not be the most accurate. A couple rounds of the salt test then the wet rag test and it was about as dead on as I thought it could be. "Great, I have a good one that works", I shouted with glee.
However, I decided to buy a digital to replace it just because. I finally got the new digi calibrated and got it in the humidor. The analog was reading about 85-88% which I thought might be right since I fully charged the humidifier and only have maybe 40 sticks in this big box.
I put the analog in the tester bag and the digi in the humidor and what to my surprise, the digi shows down to 73% in about an hour in the humidor. The analog in the 75.5% test bag is at 88% and rising.
The moral of this long, old new story, really, don't trust analog hygrometers, especaily when you can buy god qauality digitals for $20.
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Now I'm ready to stock up. ;-)
I recently bought a larger humidor to replace my old one. It worked great, but was not big enough to really put in a hygrometer and right sized humidifier and with 15 or so various sized sticks was pretty much packed. I'll use it for bulk storage I think.
So, the new humidor of course came with an analog hygrometer and I calibrated it knowing it may not be the most accurate. A couple rounds of the salt test then the wet rag test and it was about as dead on as I thought it could be. "Great, I have a good one that works", I shouted with glee.
However, I decided to buy a digital to replace it just because. I finally got the new digi calibrated and got it in the humidor. The analog was reading about 85-88% which I thought might be right since I fully charged the humidifier and only have maybe 40 sticks in this big box.
I put the analog in the tester bag and the digi in the humidor and what to my surprise, the digi shows down to 73% in about an hour in the humidor. The analog in the 75.5% test bag is at 88% and rising.
The moral of this long, old new story, really, don't trust analog hygrometers, especaily when you can buy god qauality digitals for $20.
)Now I'm ready to stock up. ;-)
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