temperature at 74 degrees

My humidor gets down to about 70 degrees during the night but increases to about 74 for most of the day.. (vicksburg with two ci gel containers and the western humifier)
I don't really have a more appropriate room that agrees with the wife plus I like it in the study. Upstairs gets hotter during the day but cooler at night.

I have read the prior posts about temperature but am not willing to make the house colder or buy a chiller for the humidor. How bad is it at 74 degrees?

My rh is pretty stable at 70 percent although I have seen it as high as 72 percent. At the higher temperature should it be less like maybe 65 percent?

Thanks

my preference is to keep the rh at 62-65%....especially if your temps are 70+......

What I've been doing lately is I keep two seperate tubes in my desk top and two seperate trays in my primary cooler of 65% beads. I only add distilled water as needed to one tube/tray to regulate RH. That way if there is a spike in heat or humidity my "dry" tube/tray can soak it up.

Now I understand that, as advertised, the beads should self regulate and equalized over time, but I open my humi and cooler usually twice a day and I've found there has remained enough of a difference between the tube/trays that my RH has been really stable lately.

In my 2'nd cooler I have the little gel jars that should stay at 70% but them roam all over the place. I am working away from those.

Well, most of the year I can keep my humidors at 74 degrees, even during the summer, and i don't see the cost of keeping them any cooler justified by the benefit. And I keep my sticks at 65-68% humidity and that seems to work fine for me.

My temps tend to stay in the mid 70's most of the time, helped by a/c in the summer, and I keep my rh at 70% with no problems. My min-max temps don't change in the humis by more than a couple of degrees over a 24hr period, even when the room temp fluctuates more.

thanks,:smiley14:

I feel better now..

In a way you are lucky, here is WI i think that this weekend will be the first this year that I will even have to worry about the temp. rising above 70 degrees outside, not to mention inside the house.