ive put distilled directly on my beads for the last 5 years with no problems whatsoever. they work if they are cracked so i dont care if they do. i add water when my RH dips below the RH that the beads are designed to maintain.
I mist mine in the bag. I have no room for dishes or even a bottle cap of water. Distilled water until they turn clear. With winter being here I have to do it about once a week or so.
ive put distilled directly on my beads for the last 5 years with no problems whatsoever. they work if they are cracked so i dont care if they do. i add water when my RH dips below the RH that the beads are designed to maintain.
+! I use 70% beads. That keeps my humi 67%-70%. (In the Winter I add some Water Pillows if I need to). I add Distilled H20 when my Humi reads 66%.
I'm going to start doing what you do Doug. When My beads dry up , I usually spray them with a bottle every month. But in my cabi I'm just going to leave a little bottle in there with water and unscrew it every now and again. I hate having to reach in the back on the top/middle/bottom and spray the beads. (I'm lazy I know).
I use the mist method. I keep them in an unused cigar coffin that I lined with the bottom of a cut ziploc bag. It works great because roughly the shape of a cigar and it fits well almost like a divider in my trays. I know martys method may work for him and others but in the winter it just doesn't work for me. Possibly the cooler temps don't let enough distilled water evaporate from the cup when I place it in the humi. I use conservagel,
I have 3 or 4 shot glasses full of beads in my humi at any time... if I dont have space to place a shot glass with distilled water in for a few days, I simply pull a shot glass out full of beads, and place it in a tupperware container with a bit of distilled water in there. Leave it over night, your solid.
I re-charged my beads back in February, open my humi every single day... Have not had to recharge since. solidly 68-69% rh every single day.
Cut the ends of stockings, fill them with beads and use a mister to spray dist. water....I usually spray some in the pouch, mix the beads up and spray some on the outter stocking, dry off and put back in...
I think he meant charging will make it worse C. If they weren't charged I know some say they ship precharged so just open the humi a few times a day to drop the humidity and make the beads work off that excess water they have in them. If your humidity is high you don't want to charge, it will only make things worse Imho.I'm assuming you live somewhere where the ambient humidity is below 70 rh correct.
I think he meant charging will make it worse C. If they weren't charged I know some say they ship precharged so just open the humi a few times a day to drop the humidity and make the beads work off that excess water they have in them. If your humidity is high you don't want to charge, it will only make things worse Imho.I'm assuming you live somewhere where the ambient humidity is below 70 rh correct.
Right....but I'm really beginning to think I may have gotten the wrong rh level beads....this should be easy from what I'm reading, but I'm working at this....
ive put distilled directly on my beads for the last 5 years with no problems whatsoever. they work if they are cracked so i dont care if they do. i add water when my RH dips below the RH that the beads are designed to maintain.
same here, i just pour my distilled water over my beads. In the winter time, I add an extra shot glass of water to my humidor to help maintain RH.
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