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Having trouble with humidor . Need advice ?

ScrappyfishScrappyfish Posts: 6 ✭
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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 ?

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,598 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2019
    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.
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  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 16,506 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That's why it's called *relative* humidity.
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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 27,598 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dropping the temp too much will cause moisture to condense inside, try back at 68 degrees.
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  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 8,835 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited October 2019
    Try going to Cigar 101 section, read the top post.
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  • VegasFrankVegasFrank Posts: 18,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't think that ^^ applies to this unique situation  :#
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  • peter4jcpeter4jc Posts: 16,506 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.

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