Idlefellow
West of the East and East of the West
bought one of the humidor kits from Thompson cigars; the one with two jars of "Wonder Gel", the bottle of solution and a digital hygrometer. It blurb says each jar will "keep a 100-count humidor at a perfect 70%"; put one jar in my office humidor, one in the home humidor.
The hygrometer never read higher than 45%, so I contacted Thompson, and after a bunch of traded emails and various gyrations (non of which helped) they sent me another hygrometer. Same thing! Took one home and put it in my other humidor; it never reads higher than about 45-50% either! The analog hygrometers in both seem to read a reasonable level.
So my questions: anyone else have this problem? Am I doing something wrong? Are the hygrometers junk? My cigars do seem a little drier than I'd like, even though the analog hygros maintain a reasonable reading.
Any ideas? Thanks...
The hygrometer never read higher than 45%, so I contacted Thompson, and after a bunch of traded emails and various gyrations (non of which helped) they sent me another hygrometer. Same thing! Took one home and put it in my other humidor; it never reads higher than about 45-50% either! The analog hygrometers in both seem to read a reasonable level.
So my questions: anyone else have this problem? Am I doing something wrong? Are the hygrometers junk? My cigars do seem a little drier than I'd like, even though the analog hygros maintain a reasonable reading.
Any ideas? Thanks...