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eastwood44mag · 11-24-2014, 09:40 PM

Checked the humidor tonight: gel beads still gorged with water, water pillow still plump, hygrometer reading at 48 percent. Any ideas what's going on there? Thanks.

Mad Dawg · 11-25-2014, 04:48 AM

Run a salt calibration on the hygrometer.

eastwood44mag · 11-25-2014, 07:11 AM

Guess I need to. Added more water, but I can't tell whether the crackle is from celloor whether my tobacco is getting dry, and I didn't want to take everything out.

grtrx · 11-27-2014, 07:45 PM

need to check the hygrometer in my opinion...

jazznut · 12-02-2014, 09:54 AM

It's always handy to have a spare hygrometer kicking around somewhere.

AKDiscer · 12-04-2014, 12:54 PM

Might sound paranoid, but I keep two hygrometers in my humidors. As others have said, try a recalibration.

Just curious, what kind of hygrometer is in question?

11-24-2014, 09:40 PM	#1
eastwood44mag Club Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago.......ugh Posts: 4,559	humidity and hygrometer issue Checked the humidor tonight: gel beads still gorged with water, water pillow still plump, hygrometer reading at 48 percent. Any ideas what's going on there? Thanks. __________________ I am a mushroom. They keep me in the dark and feed me horse shit. "My cigars tend to attract the kind of women that b#*ch a lot" --N99

11-25-2014, 04:48 AM	#2
Mad Dawg Administrator Herf Dog Herf God Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Republic of Texas Posts: 34,199	Run a salt calibration on the hygrometer. __________________ Gone, But Never Forgotten. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ That which does not kill me....has made a grave tactical error.

11-25-2014, 07:11 AM	#3
eastwood44mag Club Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago.......ugh Posts: 4,559	Guess I need to. Added more water, but I can't tell whether the crackle is from celloor whether my tobacco is getting dry, and I didn't want to take everything out. __________________ I am a mushroom. They keep me in the dark and feed me horse shit. "My cigars tend to attract the kind of women that b#*ch a lot" --N99

11-27-2014, 07:45 PM	#4
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,477	need to check the hygrometer in my opinion... __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

12-02-2014, 09:54 AM	#5
jazznut Managing Editor Emeritus Herf God Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 25,993	It's always handy to have a spare hygrometer kicking around somewhere. __________________ My whisky adventure began at the age of nine. Good things DO take time!

12-04-2014, 12:54 PM	#6
AKDiscer Member Join Date: Sep 2014 Location: Huntsville, AL Posts: 528	Might sound paranoid, but I keep two hygrometers in my humidors. As others have said, try a recalibration. Just curious, what kind of hygrometer is in question?

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