Having trouble with humidor . Need advice ?

Scrappyfish

Hello . I have a whynter cigar cooler . The small version . Has about 75 cigars in it . 

 I am having trouble with humidity going to high . ( only in last couple weeks ) the humidity is up around 70 without any kind of humidifier inside . Only thing is cigars and cedar shelves .  The room temps is 70 degrees and room humidity is 55-60 . 

  Most of summer the cooler stayed around 68 on humidity and 66 on temp . I keep temp set on 66 . There was one humidifier pack in box all summer . 

  Now the temp is set on 63 trying to bring humidity down . No humidifier packs . And humidity is still up around 70 . 

  How do I maintain and 68 humidity ?

Yakster

Bovedas.

Colder air holds less humidity so when the temp dropped, the RH% went up with the same moisture in the air.

You could leave the door open for a bit.

peter4jc

That's why it's called *relative* humidity.

IndustMech

peter4jc said:

That's why it's called *relative* humidity.

I thought it was referring to my sweaty brother-in-law. 

Yakster

Dropping the temp too much will cause moisture to condense inside, try back at 68 degrees.

Amos_Umwhat

Try going to Cigar 101 section, read the top post.

VegasFrank

I don't think that ^^ applies to this unique situation 

peter4jc

When I learned that the dew point is the true measurement of moisture in the air, I started paying attention to that number and gave up on relative humidity.  There's an interesting temp/humidity/dewpoint calculator that has a graph with sliders reflect the three numbers, and when you adjust any of the three sliders you get a change in the other two indicators.  Try it, you'll like it.

http://www.dpcalc.org/