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Edward562Edward562 Posts: 7 ✭
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Hi i recently bought a whynter 1.8 cigar humidor/cooler  am currently seasoning it am about 1 week in i currently only have 70% beads in there so my question is  this is it normal for it to drop in the evening to 65 then at around midnight it goes to 70 then in the mornings i wake up and its at 75 percent its been doing that for about 3 days already pls help how long do i got to wait 
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  • Edward562Edward562 Posts: 7 ✭
  • 0patience0patience Posts: 10,665 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All you can do is either wait it out, until it stabilizes or put some 84%? Bovida seasoning beads and see how that does.
    If it were me, I'd give it more time.
    We're talking a substantial sized unit, so while 1 week is barely adequate for a desk top humi, it isn't even close for that thing.
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  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Don't trust that hygrometer either unless you have calibrated it. I would reccomend gettting a digital one and calibrate it also. 
    Nice looking unit. Good luck! 
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  • Edward562Edward562 Posts: 7 ✭
    Thanks yeah i was thinking of buying some boveda packs for it   dont know if i should go with 2 packs or 3 of the 320g for it and is 84% for it to season faster or should i just buy the 70%  and wait  i currently have a digital hygro in it its a caliber 4r hygro and for a unit this size whats the adequate time to season it and thank you guys for the fast reply and advice i really appreciate it 
  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • Edward562Edward562 Posts: 7 ✭
    thanks will do 
  • NOGILLS2NOGILLS2 Posts: 156 ✭✭✭
    Do you have a thermometer in the unit? Next I would google Relative Humidity. You will discover that temperature plays a big roll in relative humidity. as the temp. rises and falls the RH changes. 
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  • WaterNerdWaterNerd Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Edward562 Welcome to the forum. Great Humidor! Agree with the advice above :)
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  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    If your going off the hygrometer on that drawer dont. Buy a digital one and calibrate it. You should keep that at least 50% full which will stabilize it also
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  • WylaffWylaff Posts: 5,360 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • jgibvjgibv Posts: 9,244 ✭✭✭✭✭
    0patience said:
    If it were me, I'd give it more time.
    ^^^^ Agreed

    Guitarded said:
    Don't trust that hygrometer either unless you have calibrated it. I would reccomend gettting a digital one and calibrate it also. 


    ^^^^^^^
    YES!!!!!!!

    Those analog hygometers are notoriously inaccurate. 

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  • Edward562Edward562 Posts: 7 ✭
    Thank you guys for the replys and advice i will give it more time and wait see if theres any changes right now its 8am ang its at temp is at  67/rh 71% will keep you posted  usually these past days around this same time it would be at 75 % hopfully its a good sign i havent opened the humi either 
  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just curious, is it plugged in and a temperature set? 
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  • Edward562Edward562 Posts: 7 ✭
    Yes i have it plugged in theres a fan running in there and the temp is set to 66 thats most it goes but the temp inside is 71 right now as we speak and 62 rh
  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,749 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2017
    Edward562 said:
    Thanks yeah i was thinking of buying some boveda packs for it   dont know if i should go with 2 packs or 3 of the 320g for it and is 84% for it to season faster or should i just buy the 70%  and wait  i currently have a digital hygro in it its a caliber 4r hygro and for a unit this size whats the adequate time to season it and thank you guys for the fast reply and advice i really appreciate it 
    Usaf06 said:
    If your going off the hygrometer on that drawer dont. Buy a digital one and calibrate it. You should keep that at least 50% full which will stabilize it also

     You even read bro?
  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 11,313 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2017
    Bob_Luken said:
    Edward562 said:
    Thanks yeah i was thinking of buying some boveda packs for it   dont know if i should go with 2 packs or 3 of the 320g for it and is 84% for it to season faster or should i just buy the 70%  and wait  i currently have a digital hygro in it its a caliber 4r hygro and for a unit this size whats the adequate time to season it and thank you guys for the fast reply and advice i really appreciate it 
    Usaf06 said:
    If your going off the hygrometer on that drawer dont. Buy a digital one and calibrate it. You should keep that at least 50% full which will stabilize it also

     You even read bro?

    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • jd50aejd50ae Posts: 7,900 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Get rid of the analog hydrometer.
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