Conditioned KL humidity climbing

[Seth]

The humidity in my cooler has been climbing a bit lately, up to 72% from 70. A hydrometer shows the conditioned KL I store in an air tight box has climbed from 70 to 73. Could this be caused by a two to three degree raising of temp in my house? My desktops in the same room are not having this issue.


Seth

 

[NullSmurf]

The humidity in my cooler has been climbing a bit lately, up to 72% from 70. A hydrometer shows the conditioned KL I store in an air tight box has climbed from 70 to 73. Could this be caused by a two to three degree raising of temp in my house? My desktops in the same room are not having this issue.


Seth

Nope, temp won't have a measurable affect. As to conditioned KL, I'm not going there.

 

[Ginseng]

I found that salt/water did not change at all going from 60F to 70F. Silica KL I don't know. Maybe Allofus123 can chime in. I use conditioned KL in all my coolers and they can be stable for literally months, especially the ones I open infrequently. Humidity never goes up in my coolers. Only down and when it drops a bit, I either wet the KL or put in a tub of PG/W for a few days until it comes back up.

Sorta mysterious. Did you recently put in a large quantity of new cigar arrivals? Shipped cigars can sometimes be quite moist and that could conceivably bump it up a hair, at least temporarily.

Wilkey

 

[Allofus123]

Did you recently put in a large quantity of new cigar arrivals?

If the beads are fully saturated than yes, adding over humidified cigars could have this effect. Since one of the benefits of beads is to also absorb you must make sure not to over saturate. Ideally you want beads only holding about half capacity. A very light mist or two of water is all thats needed for beads to work. Depending on the amount of beads you use and the size of the area being humidified, you will over time learn how much misting to give the beads to keep them from being over saturated. Its sorta like my Dad use to tell me when adding spices to a soup we use to make together..... you can always add more but you can't take it out.

Recently being the key word.... have you added cigars or water recently? When you say the humidity has started to change... what kind of time period are we talking about and when was water added last?

Regardless, if you believe your hygro's are correct the beads have too much water and should be dried out some IMO.

 

[JHolmes763]

Could it be the batteries in the hygro going bad?

 

[Seth]

Did you recently put in a large quantity of new cigar arrivals?

If the beads are fully saturated than yes, adding over humidified cigars could have this effect. Since one of the benefits of beads is to also absorb you must make sure not to over saturate. Ideally you want beads only holding about half capacity. A very light mist or two of water is all thats needed for beads to work. Depending on the amount of beads you use and the size of the area being humidified, you will over time learn how much misting to give the beads to keep them from being over saturated. Its sorta like my Dad use to tell me when adding spices to a soup we use to make together..... you can always add more but you can't take it out.

Recently being the key word.... have you added cigars or water recently? When you say the humidity has started to change... what kind of time period are we talking about and when was water added last?

Regardless, if you believe your hygro's are correct the beads have too much water and should be dried out some IMO.

I can see where I might have over humidified a couple small bags of beads in my cooler. I was moving some stuff around recently between older and new humidors and coolers and moved some bags of beads around. If I then took those over humidied bags and put them back in the air tight container with the beads that are not in use that would account for the rise there as well.

I checked my hygros last month.

I will put the beads in open air for a few hours and let them dry a bit and see where that takes me.

Thanks for the ideas.


Seth

 

[BlindedByScience]

.......As to conditioned KL, I'm not going there.

X2 on that one..... :whistling:

Best of luck - B.B.S.

 

[NullSmurf]

Could it be the batteries in the hygro going bad?

Nah, as the battery falls below 1V, the hygro will read low, proportional to the voltage. At about .5V, you'll lose the display.

 

[Allofus123]

I will put the beads in open air for a few hours and let them dry a bit and see where that takes me.

Thanks for the ideas.

Seth

You may want to run them under a hair dryer. Leaving them in the open air for a few hours will not eliminate much water unless you have very very low humidity where you live. If they are fully saturated (putting off more humidity then what you conditioned them to) they will most likely need to stay out at least overnight. Last time I needed to dry out some beads I placed them in a casserole dish and placed them in the oven at 250 for about 5 minutes or so. Pretty much removes all the moisture. Allow them to cool and then a light mist or two is required to recharge them.

.......As to conditioned KL, I'm not going there.

X2 on that one..... :whistling:

Am I missing something? ???

 

[Shooter]

I will put the beads in open air for a few hours and let them dry a bit and see where that takes me.

Thanks for the ideas.

Seth

You may want to run them under a hair dryer. Leaving them in the open air for a few hours will not eliminate much water unless you have very very low humidity where you live. If they are fully saturated (putting off more humidity then what you conditioned them to) they will most likely need to stay out at least overnight. Last time I needed to dry out some beads I placed them in a casserole dish and placed them in the oven at 250 for about 5 minutes or so. Pretty much removes all the moisture. Allow them to cool and then a light mist or two is required to recharge them.

.......As to conditioned KL, I'm not going there.

X2 on that one..... :whistling:

Am I missing something? ???

oh boy

 

[jfk742]

had the same problem with my coolidor over the last couple of days, i over hydrated the beads and added a new box. i took the beads out for about 8 hrs so that about 60-70% of the beads were clear then put the bag back in and it started to settle again at 69% it was almost at 80 this morning. good luck

 

[Seth]

I will put the beads in open air for a few hours and let them dry a bit and see where that takes me.

Thanks for the ideas.

Seth

You may want to run them under a hair dryer. Leaving them in the open air for a few hours will not eliminate much water unless you have very very low humidity where you live. If they are fully saturated (putting off more humidity then what you conditioned them to) they will most likely need to stay out at least overnight. Last time I needed to dry out some beads I placed them in a casserole dish and placed them in the oven at 250 for about 5 minutes or so. Pretty much removes all the moisture. Allow them to cool and then a light mist or two is required to recharge them.

Thanks for the advice


Seth