TheShaun:

Seems that when I had the thing almost totally empty (less than 10 sticks) the 4 oz 65% tube held a pretty solid 65-67%. Now that it's got more sticks in it, the tube seems to be insufficient. Currently I've got the tube and 3 humicare pillows and it's maintained 62% for a day or two now. What I've been doing is charging the foam humidifier that came with the humi and sticking it in there overnight to get the rh up, then taking it out. I'm hesitant to leave it in there as I've read about those things causing mold behind where they sit on the inside of the lid.

I'm miffed that the rh has gone down with the addition of more sticks, as I thought the opposite would happen, or at least remain unchanged. Maybe I need to buy another tube?

Shaun, you could try a little experiment. I am thinking that maybe your humi was NOT quite as seasoned as you first thought. If you could put the sticks into a temporary home for a day or so, take out everything from your humi (including all the humidification devices) except for your hygrometer. Take a reading from your humi when you start this experiment. Leave it in there for a 24 hours period.
If your humi is properly seasoned it will NOT allow the RH to drop that much in a 24 hour period as it should be able to maintain (very closely anyway) the RH for that time period without added humudification. If after the 24 hours your RH is way down then I would look at one of two possibilities.
Either the Humi needs to be reseasoned OR the seal of the Humi is allowing air to escape from the humi and thus allowing the RH to bounce around.

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laker1963:

TheShaun:

Seems that when I had the thing almost totally empty (less than 10 sticks) the 4 oz 65% tube held a pretty solid 65-67%. Now that it's got more sticks in it, the tube seems to be insufficient. Currently I've got the tube and 3 humicare pillows and it's maintained 62% for a day or two now. What I've been doing is charging the foam humidifier that came with the humi and sticking it in there overnight to get the rh up, then taking it out. I'm hesitant to leave it in there as I've read about those things causing mold behind where they sit on the inside of the lid.

I'm miffed that the rh has gone down with the addition of more sticks, as I thought the opposite would happen, or at least remain unchanged. Maybe I need to buy another tube?

Shaun, you could try a little experiment. I am thinking that maybe your humi was NOT quite as seasoned as you first thought. If you could put the sticks into a temporary home for a day or so, take out everything from your humi (including all the humidification devices) except for your hygrometer. Take a reading from your humi when you start this experiment. Leave it in there for a 24 hours period.
If your humi is properly seasoned it will NOT allow the RH to drop that much in a 24 hour period as it should be able to maintain (very closely anyway) the RH for that time period without added humudification. If after the 24 hours your RH is way down then I would look at one of two possibilities.
Either the Humi needs to be reseasoned OR the seal of the Humi is allowing air to escape from the humi and thus allowing the RH to bounce around.

Before you do the experiment that laker suggested, try the dollar bill test on your seal. Take a 1 (or if your a gamblin man a 5) and put it halfway in the humi and close the lid on it. Then slightly pull on the dollar, if it comes out easily, you have a bad seal, if it pulls the humi a bit (if its small) or won't budge, then your seal is good. Do it on the three sides without a hinge and then do the experiment.

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brsmith21:

I've heard the first step is admitting that you have a problem. Thankfully, I don't have a problem. I'll just smoke more.

I've tried the dollar bill test with a piece of news paper. And there was definitely resistance in pulling it out. I may have to try Laker's experiment.

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Shaun
Senior VP, Department of Redundancy Department

This morning with the humidity at 65% I took out all the cigars and humidification sources to try Laker's experiment. When I put the tray and hygro back in the read out had fallen to the low 50's, and within a few minutes it was up at around 60%. About an hour later it read 62% where it stayed until about 30 minutes ago, where it's now at 61%. So far it's been about 7 hours. We'll see what it says in the morning. But so far it seems like things are good....... I think.

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Shaun
Senior VP, Department of Redundancy Department