Re-salt test time?

vortex

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I was getting some discrepancies between my wireless hygros and the Don Salvatore ones and it has been a couple years since the last test. Last time some were off by as much as 2 RH but this time one of the Radio Shack wireless ones was off by 3 RH? No wonder I was getting discrepancies. It had tested in '08 at 79% RH and now it tested almost bang on at 76%!! I've never had one drift that far in two years before. Now I know why some of my cigars were over-humidifed. At least they weren't under-humidified.

The rest were pretty much OK(one off by one). I do them in batches of two and three at a time to reduce the possibility of a bad test on one. So I have a high degree of confidence in the tests. In other words, if two are as expected but one isn't, I can be pretty sure it actually is off because they were all tested at the same time, in the same Tupperware container.

I post this partly to let people know hygros can drift over time. Just keep an eye on your cigars and if they start to be "off" or, if your beads are OK but the RH is off, it might be time to check them.
 
I salt tested my digitals when I got them 2 years ago and haven't bothered to since. I look at them, but don't watch them all that closely. I use the 65% beads 3 seasons and CI Humicare Crystals in the winter. My cigars are smoking fine and I have never had a mold issue. If they hydrometers every broke I probably wouldn't even bother to replace them.
 
I was getting some discrepancies between my wireless hygros and the Don Salvatore ones and it has been a couple years since the last test. Last time some were off by as much as 2 RH but this time one of the Radio Shack wireless ones was off by 3 RH? No wonder I was getting discrepancies. It had tested in '08 at 79% RH and now it tested almost bang on at 76%!! I've never had one drift that far in two years before. Now I know why some of my cigars were over-humidifed. At least they weren't under-humidified.

The rest were pretty much OK(one off by one). I do them in batches of two and three at a time to reduce the possibility of a bad test on one. So I have a high degree of confidence in the tests. In other words, if two are as expected but one isn't, I can be pretty sure it actually is off because they were all tested at the same time, in the same Tupperware container.

I post this partly to let people know hygros can drift over time. Just keep an eye on your cigars and if they start to be "off" or, if your beads are OK but the RH is off, it might be time to check them.

Thanks vortex for sharing this info, my hygro is only 4 months old but I know sooner or later I'll have to do the salt
test again.
 
I salt tested my digitals when I got them 2 years ago and haven't bothered to since. I look at them, but don't watch them all that closely. I use the 65% beads 3 seasons and CI Humicare Crystals in the winter. My cigars are smoking fine and I have never had a mold issue. If they hydrometers every broke I probably wouldn't even bother to replace them.
As long as my cigars were smoking OK, it stood to reason that all was well. When the cigars started getting too moist I wondered what was up? I found out, luckily, and all is peachy. :p
 
I just salt test mine when the batteries are replaced.
About once each year.

Little Havana Perfecto - always spot on
HygroSet - adjustable, ergo accurate
(2) Don Salvatore - always off - one by 3%, the other by 8%

Chemyst :cool:
 
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