Is my Humi good?

As long as it keeps humidy thats all that matters. If you could get a cardboard box to keep it that'd fine too.

Amen. And don't worry about the wooshing, the thing to listen for is the slam. And your girlfriend stealing your sticks; gotta watch out for that too.

You may find that you prefer your stixs at the slightly lower humidity, I know I try to keep mine at 65%. I think you'll find that the 2% difference is nothing to really get concerned over.

Welcome to the forum, btw.

Read the thread on Salt Testing????


There are 3 other humidor tests

1- Place a dollar bill 1/2 in 1/2 out if with the lid closed you can pull the dollar out with little resistance that is a probelm.

2- Place a small flashlight inside it & turn the lights out.

3- & most important is fill it with cigars and send it to me!
If they smoke well when it gets here everything is Right :wink:

Sounds like you have a good humi. If it's holding it's humidity, it's doing a great job.

Your girlfriend contributing to your cigar smoking??? She sounds like a keeper. 8)

Welcome to the cigar forum, Banihex!

Do you have a digital or analog hygrometer? If analog, did you calibrate via the salt test?

As you noticed, there are a lot of helpful folks here.

So light up a cigar, kick back, and enjoy!

Doc-T said:

Do you have a digital or analog hygrometer? If analog, did you calibrate via the salt test?

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Doc-T not sure what you mena by this?

I'd comment that all digitals need be salt tested & all analog thrown in the trash.
They can be used properly, they can read one thing one day and be off the next!

Just making sure we are on the same page?

CC, not everyone has a digital. And I agree in tossing the analog. Some/most analogs can be calibrated. Benihex is reading ~68%. But is it from an analog or digital hygro? For all we know, it's an analog that is 10% off. My analog that came with my humi was 8% high, as I tested it side-by-side with 2 other digitals.

And yes, the analogs can read one measurement one day, and different the next even after I had calibrated, as I had continued to use it with the digital. The analog is no longer in use as I am in favor of digitals.

Also, I agree with you 100% that Benihex should send all of us a sampler pack directly from his humi for an extensive taste and humidity test to verify his humi is working properly. :wink:

the problem with analoge readers isnt that they could be off by 30% its that they dont give consistent readings. im convinced that temperature has more to do with their readings than humidity. which should not be true.

Well, temperature does have a substantial effect on relative humidity. The warmer the air is the more water it can hold. Also, 65-70% is only the right humidity at 70 degrees. At lower temperatures higher humidity is needed, and at higher temperatures lower humidity is needed.

That said, how are the low 70s (say, 73?) for storing cigars? I've got 2 humis already. I'd like to use the problematic one for storing boxes & bundles and keep my single sticks and ready to smoke stuff in the other one.
Basically the first one never worked right- it was always low after several weeks. I bought another and that one was too wet, so I swapped the gel I'd been using in the first one for the humidifier that came with the second, and now the second one is in the mid 60% range. Usually it's at 65-66, and I haven't seen it at or under 64 unless it had been opened recently. I suspect it might come up to 67-70 if I could manage to leave it closed for a few days. The problem is the first one is now a bit on the wet side. I put some weather stripping on it to get a decent seal. Perhaps I should start tearing bits off & see if it stabilizes at a little lower level.

I've heard of people using weatherstripping before who have had more problems than good come of it. Basically if you use too much on a flat rim you can jack the hinges out of whack making a bad situation worse. Not chastising just warning you to be careful.