Help with testing hydrometer and seasoning humidor

[malibuboats91]

I recently purchased a 25 cigar humidor off of cheapcigarhumidors. It came yesterday and reading the instructions, it told me to put a shot glass full of water along with the humidifier in the humidor. I did that and then followed the directions for calibrating the hydrometer. When I slipped it in the bag it registered 57% humidity and when I woke up this morning it read 59% humidity. I left it in there until noon today and it registered the same so I turned it up to 75% and took it out of the bag to see if it would go down. It went down slowly but not by much, right now its at like 72% sitting in my dry house. I went to walmart and picked up a digital hydrometer and thermometer for $6.50 just to check this one. The package said it could be +/-5% humidity in its reading, is that okay? Now should I salt test this digital one even though its non changeable?

[ashauler]

Yes, you should salt-test the wally world hyrgrometer. Once you identify the variance you can mentally correct for it when monitoring and adjusting your humidity.

[malibuboats91]

I just want to clarify if I did this correct...I got a little dish, put i teaspoon of salt in it and added a little distilled water to make it into kind of a paste, then placed that mixture along with my hydrometer in a bag and waited 6 hours. Does that sound correct or do you have any changes to it?

[badwhale]

I just want to clarify if I did this correct...I got a little dish, put i teaspoon of salt in it and added a little distilled water to make it into kind of a paste, then placed that mixture along with my hydrometer in a bag and waited 6 hours. Does that sound correct or do you have any changes to it?

I've heard you should double bag it and wait overnight. The rest sounds ok. The one time I did it, I used the cap to a water bottle, and packed it with salt, then made the paste as you described.

Will
PS Welcome from Bitterville

[malibuboats91]

Alright thanks! I just put it in the baggie with the mixture and sealed it up, then put that baggie inside another baggie.

[malibuboats91]

I have been testing them and came to the conclusion that the one provided from cheap humidors is not consistent at all so they are sending me a new POS hygrometer. Now the digital I think is 15% below what it should be reading. I have had my humidification device in the humidor along with the shot glass full of distilled water since tuesday at 6pm central standard time and I just took a look inside and there is about a quarter of an inch of water gone from the shot glass. Now with my doubtful hygrometers, how do I tell if its seasoned or not? The digital has a reading of 75% and the analog has a reading of 72% after doing the math.