Starting Construction

**Galvanicfish** · 06-15-2009, 05:24 PM

Wow man, I am thoroughly impressed.

**DeeDubya** · 06-16-2009, 04:10 PM

Finally got the "Traceable" Humidity/Temperature meter. It is NIST certified and they send the ISO calibration certificate with it. Guaranteed within +/-2%RH it will be great to calibrate my other cheapies. I like the Min/Max recall on both temp and RH. This thing is small enough to fit in all but the smallest humidors. It's not unreasonable at $60 when it removes all the doubt that I had with the other units. I ordered this one from The Weather Store but you might find it for less. The Wholesale Dist. is: http://www.control3.com/

**Roger** · 06-16-2009, 07:07 PM

Looks like you are nearly ready to go guns on stocking it up. I was wondering if you had a sensor of some kind to measure the humididty that is connected to your humidifer? Can you set it and forget it or are you going to have to micromanage the equipment to make your RH right? Looks great!

**DeeDubya** · 06-16-2009, 07:20 PM

Originally Posted by Roger

Looks like you are nearly ready to go guns on stocking it up. I was wondering if you had a sensor of some kind to measure the humididty that is connected to your humidifer? Can you set it and forget it or are you going to have to micromanage the equipment to make your RH right? Looks great!

Go back to the pic of the humidifier. A Honeywell humidistat (cheap one) came with the humidfier and is mounted right above it. I will have to (by trial and error) adjust it to the humidity I need according to the hygrometer. So, some tweeking will be necessary, but I should be able to manage that. We'll see. I set it up when I got home today and I'm reading 81 degrees and 60%RH. That's not a bad start without even running the humidifier nor having any additional cooling (It's 100 degrees outside right now, nearly as bad as Kansas weather, but at least we still have birds).

**DeeDubya** · 06-22-2009, 08:36 AM

As you can see I've moved some cigars into the humidor this weekend, but still have much to do. I still have some boxes to put in but need to save room for some small wooden antiques that will appreciate the 65% RH too. I'm filling the humidifier pan manually for now. It's the only way to tell how much water it's using. So far, about a gallon/day. The RH went from 45% on start up to 65% in about 4 hours, so I know there is plenty capacity. Still, it's cycling quite often and I suspect that the wood will be sucking up a lot of moisture for a few days. Once it levels out I'll connect the water supply and let her go. The humidistat has about a 5% differential (not adjustable) so I'm setting it to 68% to cycle off which then causes it to drop to 63% before it cycles back on (for an average of 65%). Since I will keep the boxes closed this RH "swing" should have little or no affect on the sticks.

Whatcha think? I love it and have convinced myself that it was worth the efforts. It's so nice to browse and choose. Hell I found some cigars down in one of my coolers that I had forgotton about. Padillas wouldn't you know. Now they can't hide from me.