well I started about 2 months ago building this humidor to fit in a "nook" in my dining room. It took me absolutely forever to finish this thing. So I set it all up and put bowls of dis. water in it to season the sp. cedar lining and everything, and all is well. The I get 2 lbs. of magic beans, set 'em up in pantyhose 
, shut the doors and let them so the work 
sad thing is the damn thing aparently wouldn't hold the humidity, even though it had appeared to do so with the bowls of water, my humi was still running very dry. I figured that the beads just couldn't keep up with the humidity loss fast enough ???
anyways, so i abandon the idea of using this as a humidor and instead decide to use it to hold a bunch of tupperdors
no problem i think to myself, at least I made a very nice looking cabinent for the dining room. well, when I decided this I put my radioshack thermometer/hygrometer back into my originial 250 count humi (where I have been keeping my sticks until I get my new humi set up) and find out the damn thing is WAY to dry. i recharge the humidifier like every day and the thing is still sitting at 60 - 61% I just can't get the humidity up.
so, my wife says (keep in mind i've been complaining now about this whole thing for at least week by this point), maybe you should do that test thing again to make sure the reading is correct. but I DID that already when I bought the hygrometer, and it was 1-2% low, so I already know how to account for that. well, long story short, I figure I might as well do the salt test again, and after letting it sit for about 48 hours, it's dead on at 65% THATS RIGHT...10% OFF.
so what does this mean? It means the humi I built really DOES work
has anyone ever had their digital hygrometer change on them like that? or is it more likely that I didn't do the salt test correctly the first time. Only thing about that second statement is, i'm pretty sure the first test was correct b/c my humi got settled at 68-69% using 50/50 and dis. water. ??? ??? oh wall...whatever.
anyways, we have like 6 inches of snow on the ground right now, so I figured I would come and tell you all a little story
thanks for listening.
, shut the doors and let them so the work sad thing is the damn thing aparently wouldn't hold the humidity, even though it had appeared to do so with the bowls of water, my humi was still running very dry. I figured that the beads just couldn't keep up with the humidity loss fast enough ???
anyways, so i abandon the idea of using this as a humidor and instead decide to use it to hold a bunch of tupperdors
no problem i think to myself, at least I made a very nice looking cabinent for the dining room. well, when I decided this I put my radioshack thermometer/hygrometer back into my originial 250 count humi (where I have been keeping my sticks until I get my new humi set up) and find out the damn thing is WAY to dry. i recharge the humidifier like every day and the thing is still sitting at 60 - 61% I just can't get the humidity up.so, my wife says (keep in mind i've been complaining now about this whole thing for at least week by this point), maybe you should do that test thing again to make sure the reading is correct. but I DID that already when I bought the hygrometer, and it was 1-2% low, so I already know how to account for that. well, long story short, I figure I might as well do the salt test again, and after letting it sit for about 48 hours, it's dead on at 65% THATS RIGHT...10% OFF.
so what does this mean? It means the humi I built really DOES work
has anyone ever had their digital hygrometer change on them like that? or is it more likely that I didn't do the salt test correctly the first time. Only thing about that second statement is, i'm pretty sure the first test was correct b/c my humi got settled at 68-69% using 50/50 and dis. water. ??? ??? oh wall...whatever.
anyways, we have like 6 inches of snow on the ground right now, so I figured I would come and tell you all a little story
thanks for listening.
