It is my understanding that you do not need to calibrate a digital hygrometer. The salt method is used only on the analog ones. Please somenone correct me if I'm wrong cause if so, I have a lot of work to do!!!!!!!
I'm a newb by my understanding is that digitals should be calibrated. When you do the salt test you should use distilled water, not a solution. I was told to test for 24 hours. After the test it should read 75%. If it does not, adjust it to 75 and try the water pillow. If it goes up to 90 it's probably defective.
I use the Excaliber III (from amazon) and it doesn't require any callibration. In fact, it tells u on the box if someone tells u to use the "salt test" run like hell away from them, thought that was funny as hell. I have 2 of these and they both are highly accurate. Basically just turn them on and throw them into your humi. Shows Temp and RH.
when i bought my digi from heartland it offered a calibration kit for 2-3$ so i grabbed that. you just open this bag put the digi in there for 24 hrs and presto its calibrated.
I think I have the same Xikar one that you have and I don't believe its the type that can be calibrated. I was under the impression that it would but I was wrong. Anywho, get yourself a calibration kit from Boveda and then determine if its off or its its accurate. If its off by a little, you'll just have to keep that in mind every time.
Wait.... Are you putting the puck and the pillows and stuff in a bag? To calibrate you just put the salt and hygro only in the air tight container... The other stuff would cause a misread...
analogs are mostly junk, they do look nice ,but almost are never accurate and hard to calibrate if they can be, digitals are perfect ,but you always salt test them too cause i've had nice digitals that were off by almost 9 percent, always buy one with a calibration button and the boveda calibration test is way easier and probably more accurate than the sal test so pick one of those up as well, there dirt cheap like 5 bucks and can be re used, as far as a digital i have personally found the xikar digis are an excellent choice, hope that helps
I just got in two new Xikar Digitals. You just put enough water on the salt in a small container to make it damp. Put that and the device into a zip log bag. Wait for 4 hours. Push the calibrate button, after you push the button, it resets to read 75%, as that is what the reading in the bag should be at that point. Mine did not seem accurate at first, so I did it a few times. They now both read the same, as I swap them between humidors as a way of checking.
I just got in two new Xikar Digitals. You just put enough water on the salt in a small container to make it damp. Put that and the device into a zip log bag. Wait for 4 hours. Push the calibrate button, after you push the button, it resets to read 75%, as that is what the reading in the bag should be at that point. Mine did not seem accurate at first, so I did it a few times. They now both read the same, as I swap them between humidors as a way of checking.
You gotta wait 24-36 hrs; 4 hrs is way too short - the RH can't level out that quickly
I was wondering about that, I swear the directions read 4 hours. But out of curiosity I left everything in the bag after pushing the button, and they didn't stay at 75%, which I figured they should. I ended up pushing the button several times, I bet it was at least 24 hours later until they held at 75%.
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