Can you suggest a better humidifier disk?

[FireFighter 227]

I am using the included disk that came with my 15 count $20 humidor and it seems to be struggling. Sure, its very dry right now, but my humidity is hovering around 60% at best as of today. I'm assuming the included cheap one is just that, cheap. I was looking at the Xikar disk that uses crystals and also "The Puck", which states it uses beads. I need something that can be affixed to the bottom of a lid, so the crystal jar will not work.

Second question, I plan to move it to a larger humidor later, so would it be a problem using their model designed for 100ct, even though it would be going into a small 15ct humidor?

http://www.famous-smoke.com/cigars/search/....cfm/inum/26144

http://cigarswag.com/index.php?main_page=p...;products_id=68

 

[Sweetrice80]

Here is some information I can provide you.

Make sure you seasoned your humidor correctly, that Information can be found here

http://www.cigarpass.com/humidor_care.shtml

After, checked that off, Make sure your Hygrometer is reading correctly by calibrating it , there are a few ways to do that.

http://www.cigarpass.com/guide_hygro_salt_test.shtml

or you can Buy an Humidipak which is easy and almost always spot on.

http://www.humidipak.com/

After checking all that, and still not reading where you want your RH 65% to 70% give or take

Pick up some heartfelt beads here, easy to use, add distill water and let them be! :thumbs:

http://www.heartfeltindustries.com/products.asp?cat=14

If anything is wrong such as your Hygrometer, or the puck go here, The guy is a class act, we all know him :whistling:

http://cigarswag.com/

Hope this helped

David

edit: to spell

 

[FireFighter 227]

Thanks!

I have already started step 1, before this post. I'll admit, I rushed the seasoning step as I thought it was holding, so I'll start over. Ive moved it to a tup box and its holding at 68%.

I calibrated my walmart digital hygrometer last night and its reading at 73%. I did the cap full method, soaking up any extra water at the top with a paper towel, left it in a small ziplock for 4 hours.

I will report back after another seasoning attempt.

 

[ProBe]

Thanks!

I have already started step 1, before this post. I'll admit, I rushed the seasoning step as I thought it was holding, so I'll start over. Ive moved it to a tup box and its holding at 68%.

I calibrated my walmart digital hygrometer last night and its reading at 73%. I did the cap full method, soaking up any extra water at the top with a paper towel, left it in a small ziplock for 4 hours.

I will report back after another seasoning attempt.

Give it time!! i have the same walmart digital hygrometer (if its the $7.00 one) and it took 28 hour too get to 75%.

 

[FireFighter 227]

Thanks!

I have already started step 1, before this post. I'll admit, I rushed the seasoning step as I thought it was holding, so I'll start over. Ive moved it to a tup box and its holding at 68%.

I calibrated my walmart digital hygrometer last night and its reading at 73%. I did the cap full method, soaking up any extra water at the top with a paper towel, left it in a small ziplock for 4 hours.

I will report back after another seasoning attempt.

Give it time!! i have the same walmart digital hygrometer (if its the $7.00 one) and it took 28 hour too get to 75%.

So there is no specified time to achieve 75% atmosphere? I figured if i left the salt test too long, I'd get an inaccurate reading, or rather, it would eventually start dropping.

 

[pmp]

I always recommend ditching the foam humidifiers and upgrading to the gel humidifiers. Double up during the winter and you should be fine.