temperature at 74 degrees

[planenut]

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

[bigpoppapuff]

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

[nhcigarfan]

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.

[cigar no baka]

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.

[SmokinDVM]

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.

[planenut]

thanks,

I feel better now..

[Jonsey5484]

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.