Wisecigars506
New Member
Hello all,
It's been a long long time since I've posted on here, but I've nowhere else to turn!
I bought THIS humidor a few weeks ago, and it finally arrived last Monday 3/6. I removed the bottom shelf, and installed a Cigar Oasis Magna 2.0 to keep this guy at optimal humidity. So, 8 days later i am a little confused.
I did not wipe my humidor down with a damp cloth before i installed the humidor, as I've read a lot of contradicting things about if it's actually helpful or not. As i said before, the humidifier is located at the bottom, but i put the digital hygrometer on the second shelf from the top.
1 day in and the hygrometer was showing around 60, and through 6 days it was showing about 63-64. Per the digital hygrometer, it was saying i had a 3 day average of 63.0. On the 7th day, 3/13, the humidity had dropped to about 60 and was holding steady all day.
This humidor came with 6 rectangular humidifier pucks. On the 7th day i filled those with distilled water and put them back in the drawer at the very very bottom. It's almost like a secret compartment, very hard to see, but has the same slits at the top as the shelves.
Today, the 8th day, i come home from work and the hygrometer is still reading the same... Between 60-61. I've just gotten a few boxes of cigars in the mail today, and i'd read that a humidifier wouldn't need to work as hard in a full humidor so I put all 4 boxes in the middle 2 shelves. While i was doing that, i slid the digital hygrometer down to the second to last shelf.
When i closed the humidor i left the hygrometer down there, and it was reading at almost 80!
3 hours later, it's still reading about that, so i put it back on the 2nd highest shelf... Dropped right back down to 60-61.
An hour later, with no change at all, i decided to put one of the pucks on each shelf.
I'm thinking that 1 of 3 things is going on. The entire Manga humidifier is not working properly. The hygrometer is not working properly. Or there is not enough flow from the bottom of the humidor to the top, and it is not seasoning at the same rate.
Has anyone experienced something like this, or does anyone have any advice they can give??
I'm really hoping I just need to wait it out some more, and i don't have to replace something. My back up humidor works perfectly, but only holds about 75 sticks. I've got about 100 sitting here in this new humidor, and probably 100 more coming from my old place in Florida that have been aging anywhere from 6 months to 2 years.
Any help would be much appreciated!
It's been a long long time since I've posted on here, but I've nowhere else to turn!
I bought THIS humidor a few weeks ago, and it finally arrived last Monday 3/6. I removed the bottom shelf, and installed a Cigar Oasis Magna 2.0 to keep this guy at optimal humidity. So, 8 days later i am a little confused.
I did not wipe my humidor down with a damp cloth before i installed the humidor, as I've read a lot of contradicting things about if it's actually helpful or not. As i said before, the humidifier is located at the bottom, but i put the digital hygrometer on the second shelf from the top.
1 day in and the hygrometer was showing around 60, and through 6 days it was showing about 63-64. Per the digital hygrometer, it was saying i had a 3 day average of 63.0. On the 7th day, 3/13, the humidity had dropped to about 60 and was holding steady all day.
This humidor came with 6 rectangular humidifier pucks. On the 7th day i filled those with distilled water and put them back in the drawer at the very very bottom. It's almost like a secret compartment, very hard to see, but has the same slits at the top as the shelves.
Today, the 8th day, i come home from work and the hygrometer is still reading the same... Between 60-61. I've just gotten a few boxes of cigars in the mail today, and i'd read that a humidifier wouldn't need to work as hard in a full humidor so I put all 4 boxes in the middle 2 shelves. While i was doing that, i slid the digital hygrometer down to the second to last shelf.
When i closed the humidor i left the hygrometer down there, and it was reading at almost 80!
3 hours later, it's still reading about that, so i put it back on the 2nd highest shelf... Dropped right back down to 60-61.
An hour later, with no change at all, i decided to put one of the pucks on each shelf.
I'm thinking that 1 of 3 things is going on. The entire Manga humidifier is not working properly. The hygrometer is not working properly. Or there is not enough flow from the bottom of the humidor to the top, and it is not seasoning at the same rate.
Has anyone experienced something like this, or does anyone have any advice they can give??
I'm really hoping I just need to wait it out some more, and i don't have to replace something. My back up humidor works perfectly, but only holds about 75 sticks. I've got about 100 sitting here in this new humidor, and probably 100 more coming from my old place in Florida that have been aging anywhere from 6 months to 2 years.
Any help would be much appreciated!
