How accurate are bead RH's?

Ken Light

I'm looking into finally getting beads for my cabinet, I'm sick of hearing the electric fan turn on all night long to humidify. But I'm torn between 65 and 70 RH beads. I'd prefer somewhere in the middle of that, so...do they run high, low or accurate?

KingoftheCove

AJGARLETT

my 65% run at a constant 67 (2 lbs)....I have both Heartfelts and Conservagel's and they are the same.

Ken Light

AJGARLETT:

my 65% run at a constant 67 (2 lbs)....I have both Heartfelts and Conservagel's and they are the same.

Good to hear, I was just afraid they'd run low and I'd end up at 63 or so.

AJGARLETT

CvilleE

asianbiker8

If you have a big enough space in a cabinet or cooler, can you run both rh beads? 65 and 70? Will they fight each other? Or kind of balance each other out and stay somewhat in the middle?

Ken Light

asianbiker8:

If you have a big enough space in a cabinet or cooler, can you run both rh beads? 65 and 70? Will they fight each other? Or kind of balance each other out and stay somewhat in the middle?

That's an interesting idea, but if the 65's tend to run 67-70, I'm happy with that. If it's low, though, maybe I'll just get a pound of 70's and do this.

Krieger

I'd rather it be low. If you ever find it too low, just throw a jar of that glycol and water stuff in there with it, or a shot glass of distilled water.

gio164

I have Conservagel 70% and I am holding between 69%-70%. Very happy with them.

jlmarta

Roberto99

I just picked up some pourous silica sand for my 2 humidors. Since I put it in, both humidors are rock solid right on 70% I also calibrated my hygrometers so I'm confident it's accurate.

jimmyv723

When I do get to the point where I go with beads I'll get the 65% ones. It says 4% range on the site with 2% below to 2% above and that is a perfect range for me. Before I joined here I saw how the optimal point was about 72% and even the analog hygrometers have that marked as ideal on them but after joining here and seeing how most prefer around 63-67% I tried it there and it's much better. They just burn better for me like that.