Digital Hygrometers

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btmisles

No experience with the wireless so can't help ya there but I have been looking for a new digital hygrometer and love the look of the Analog Style Digital Hygrometer. Thanks for the links smoke.

jihiggs

I bought a wireless package from radio shack a while ago, it comes with a base that has an alarm clock, reads humidity and temp and comes with one remote sensor that reads temp and humidity. You can buy two more sensors and switch them to the different channels. only downside is the remote sensors are kinda big, about the size of a deck of cards. works well, I think the main pack was 30 bucks, and 10 bucks per sensor after that.

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btmisles:

No experience with the wireless so can't help ya there but I have been looking for a new digital hygrometer and love the look of the Analog Style Digital Hygrometer. Thanks for the links smoke.

My pleasure...and let us know how it works for you if you go that route, bt.

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jlzimmerman

I couldn't find any hygrometers at the two Radio Shacks near me. I bought a Caliber III (comes pre-calibrated from the factory) and it seems to working just fine. I'm amazed how off my analog one is. It reads 78% humidity and my digital reads 67%.

kuzi16

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carmike22

Those seem awesome. I didn't knwo they made them wireless, but I guess everything is wireless now huh. I might have to pick one of these up because I defnitaly like the idea of not have to open my humidor to check on the humidity.

jlzimmerman

6clicks

I'm wondering if the digital meters are really more accurate. Like so many inexpensive (read cheap) meters of all sorts available today, many are Chinese junk (no pun intended). Are we certain that the digital units are really accurate? Just because it reads 72.865RH might not mean that it isn't actually 62. Juat a curious newbee.

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j0z3r

6clicks:

I'm wondering if the digital meters are really more accurate. Like so many inexpensive (read cheap) meters of all sorts available today, many are Chinese junk (no pun intended). Are we certain that the digital units are really accurate? Just because it reads 72.865RH might not mean that it isn't actually 62. Juat a curious newbee.

When you do the salt test, you have an established baseline humidity. Now, if a digital hygrometer reads consistently but is 3 points off, that is just the error correction factor and will simply need to be taken into account at further readings to get an accurate read.

pilot711

I have used them both and the digital is definitely the way to go as long as you calibrate it. Salt test or the Bovida calibration pack. If you use beads such as Heartfelt in your humi I think you will find everything so stable you will hardly ever have to worry about humidity.

Bartolomeo