Do you trust your hygrometer

Teege

OK so since im new compared to most in this hobby I seem to be a bit obsessed with my humidity. When I had just a 40 count humidor with 25 sticks it didnt bother me as bad. Now that I have that full and hundreds of dollars (i know not much compared to most of you crazy people) worth of sticks in a coolidor I worry about it all the time. Im scared to death its gonna stay to high or to low and im going to get mold or dry out all my cigars. So the question I have is do most of you just trust one hygrometer in each storage container? (Humi,Cooler,Cabinet) Or do you have multiple in each one or switch them out from time to time just to verify?

AJGARLETT

On my bigger cooler's I keep one on the left and one on the right. I personally dont bother with top/bottom on coolers because IN MY OPINION it doesnt fluctuate enough to worry about in such a small space. If I had a cabinet, things would be different. I do rotate them every month or so but it gets to a point that if one of them is reading 3% or more off from the others, I know its a bad hygro. Also, dont stress over it man....as long as you have beads or some type of self-regulating humidification then its pretty hard for things to get out of control to the point things get damaged! Its a stress REDUCING hobby, remember?

Teege

asianbiker8

I actually wondered if some of you guys had more than one in those large coolers. Thanks for the response ajgarlett.

AJGARLETT

how long have you had the beads in? It sounds like awhile. I would definitely leave that open for at least a few hours....take those beads out of there while you do it and let them discharge completley. Have you recently added cigars from a shipment?

Teege

They have been in there 2 weeks and I havent added any new sticks in the last few days no.

greg2648

I have a 6ft cabinet. I have 2 Xikar hygrometers. 2lbs of beads and a Moist-n-Aire. Rock solid 65rh.

Teege

Teege

Also because I don't have alot of boxes yet I still have most of them in bags. I do have the bags opened in the box not sure if that affects anything.

Russ55

I trust my hygros, and I trust my Boveda packs, and beads even more.

BigT06

james40

I use two in my coolidor about 6 inches apart in my singles tray. With the beads, there's not much to it. Sometimes they are 1% off so I don't worry about it. If I see them more than 2% off, I salt test them both. Beads = no worries.

big chunks

i have a xikar hygrometer and i trust it, works great

Rhamlin

I've got a colibri and it's always worked good(Asgard as I know)

e6specialk

I only have a 100 ct humidor and my 65% beads took between 2 -3 weeks to level out. I haven't had any problems since. I salt tested my hygro when I first got it and it has been spot on without any problems either. Also, before I started using beads, I used the gel and my rh would not get below 75%.

jasonusa1

I have a round Xikar along with the gel. I calibrated it using the Boveda packet. Granted my humi is only a 75 (give or take) count, it is full, and reads between 65-68. I'm happy with it.

dowjr1

I have a vertical humi and on the bottom I have a Humi Care XG which has a humidity readout on it and then for the top portion of my humi I have a smaller unit and a radio shack hygro which is spot on. I have had the radio shack humi for years. SO between the two I have a good feel for whats up.

boydmcgowan

scarlin

I have 2 normal round digital hygrometers and I absolutely do not trust them. Lol