Anyone Here Keep Their Humidor at 75/60?

[victory01]

This is my very humble opinion, but most of the year my coolidor stays at around 70/70 but does jump up to 75/75 at times in the heat waves of summer from weeks to months on end. I haven't had any problems yet. Some of my sticks actually smoked better at higher rh...the Man O'War comes to mind. When I inspect my stick before smoking and find it a little too moist, which is very rare, I put it aside for a little while before smoking.

I used to be very anal about my rh and temp. It was nice having the feeling of taking care of your sticks but it can get to the point where it drives you nuts. I have been to both Cuba and DR and when I think about how hot and humid it is over there it eases my concern. After ditching the hygrometer last year I have felt some weight off my shoulders.

I would keep track of a new cabinet or humi just to be sure, but if you have beads in there, I would be pretty confident everything will be just fine.

[choinga]

thank victory.

Actually, as it turns out it appears as though my cabinet humidor was pre-seasoned. I fired my Oasis XL up on the bottom shelf and it's set for 60% and my hygrometer on the top shelf/drawer is reading about 68% and 73 degrees. So, I'm in pretty good shape. I'm hoping the RH will come down a little - I'd like to stay in the 63-65% range at that temp...I think that's as low as I'm going to get it to go in the summer months down here.

Good point on the Cuba/DR thing...I've watched videos - one from the Cohiba factory in Havana comes to mind where these guys are rolling stoges with boxes of very expensive cigars all around them in cabinets that clearly are not temp/RH controlled. Now, they probably don't sit there like that for years, I'm guessing - but it definitely makes you wonder why we obsess over a specific temp and RH. :)

[hypersnyper694788]

So you guys are saying that you can compensate for a higher temp with a lower RH. Well when I put freeze packs in my humidor to try and get the temp down it will bring the RH down too. So it will go down to like 63RH and 75 degrees. Thats about as low as i can get the temp. So is that a good place to be at? Around 63/75

[ashauler]

So you guys are saying that you can compensate for a higher temp with a lower RH. Well when I put freeze packs in my humidor to try and get the temp down it will bring the RH down too. So it will go down to like 63RH and 75 degrees.

You have it backwards......if you keep the moisture level constant, and lower the temperature, the RH will rise.

ETA: If you search around on here, there is a chart somewhere that shows the relationship of temp to rh.....shelby07 posted it, iirc.

[choinga]

I think is the chart you are referring to. You'd have to reduce the amount of moisture in the cabinet to attain the lower RH%, but from what I've read if you can't get the temprature down in your cabinet (say below 75 degrees) you're better off lowering the RH. IE; 75 degrees - tune to 60% RH.

Temperature, water vapor pressure and relative humidity required to equal 70% RH at 70 degrees (13.15mmHg).

Temp, Water Vapor Pressure, Relative Humidity

66 16.37 80.33%

67 16.95 77.58%

68 17.55 74.93%

69 18.17 72.37%

70 18.79 70.00%

71 19.45 67.61%

72 20.11 65.39%

73 20.81 63.19%

74 21.51 61.13%

75 22.25 59.10%

76 23.00 57.17%

[hypersnyper694788]

I think is the chart you are referring to. You'd have to reduce the amount of moisture in the cabinet to attain the lower RH%, but from what I've read if you can't get the temprature down in your cabinet (say below 75 degrees) you're better off lowering the RH. IE; 75 degrees - tune to 60% RH.

Temperature, water vapor pressure and relative humidity required to equal 70% RH at 70 degrees (13.15mmHg).

Temp, Water Vapor Pressure, Relative Humidity

66 16.37 80.33%

67 16.95 77.58%

68 17.55 74.93%

69 18.17 72.37%

70 18.79 70.00%

71 19.45 67.61%

72 20.11 65.39%

73 20.81 63.19%

74 21.51 61.13%

75 22.25 59.10%

76 23.00 57.17%

Hmm so considering the temp inside my humidor i need to really get the RH down.

[TachyCoventry]

Hmm so considering the temp inside my humidor i need to really get the RH down.

If you submit to Mr Choinga's theory. I prefer my own experience and that says that if I can keep my humidor at 73 degres and 69 RH it's all good. Since I can do that even while living in Florida, I'm going to say whatever to that huge list he provided.