On the last straw with my humidors

[CigarNut]

Just a thought: How old are the Caliber hygrometers? If they are more than 6 months old try replacing the batteries -- the hygrometers' calibration is maintained by the battery. When the batteries age the calibration degrades.

I got a bunch of batteries cheap and I change my hygrometer batteries every 3 months just to be safe...

[Sonic04GT]

Originally Posted by CigarNut

Just a thought: How old are the Caliber hygrometers? If they are more than 6 months old try replacing the batteries -- the hygrometers' calibration is maintained by the battery. When the batteries age the calibration degrades.

I got a bunch of batteries cheap and I change my hygrometer batteries every 3 months just to be safe...

Actually, now that I think of it. I tried replacing the battery in one with no improvement, so I just put the old one back one. No difference.

Will confirm with the calibration bag that will be here this weekend. Put them in my old calibration bag that "expired" in December and they were reading 78-80%.

[Sonic04GT]

Checked both humidors. The glasstop one I wiped down only, no humidification device was left inside it. Hours later it was back down to around 60%. The regular one I left the sponge inside sitting on a plastic bag and that was reading around 81% so we'll see how it fairs over a few days.

The glasstop one was only being used to hold my infused sticks anyway, but would be nice to have them both functional.

[Zanaspus]

I'm going to take a wild assed guess that's yet to be put forth. We can tell from the data you provided us that they are not holding humidity as well as they should. I see that you live in south Fla. Has the weather gotten (relatively) cooler lately. I ask because at the height of heat, your AC is cooling and trying to keep up. As temperature drops a bit, your AC becomes essentially a giant dehumidifier.

If the above is the case, I would argue that this is no surprise. I would also add that if they are truly 50-60% for any length of time, this will not harm the sticks. Just relax and stop fighting nature.

If the above is not true, I just made my arthritic finger hurt for nothing.

[Sonic04GT]

Originally Posted by Zanaspus

I'm going to take a wild assed guess that's yet to be put forth. We can tell from the data you provided us that they are not holding humidity as well as they should. I see that you live in south Fla. Has the weather gotten (relatively) cooler lately. I ask because at the height of heat, your AC is cooling and trying to keep up. As temperature drops a bit, your AC becomes essentially a giant dehumidifier.

If the above is the case, I would argue that this is no surprise. I would also add that if they are truly 50-60% for any length of time, this will not harm the sticks. Just relax and stop fighting nature.

If the above is not true, I just made my arthritic finger hurt for nothing.

I was wondering if it had anything to do with some kind of environmental situation inside my house. That being the reason I found it weird that both humidors were fine and now they mirror each other in a failing aspect. Granted this has been going on for a few months now.

The regular one was still holding 80% with the sponge inside. Going to take it out in a few days and hopefully I can at least hold most of my cigars in there, and keep the infused in a tupperware.