STUPID QUESTION!

[smokelaw1]

I'm a lawyer, not a physicist....please forgive my increduible ignorance. I figure I should know this, as I now have three rather large (to the untrained eye) humidors.

Here's the question: My digital hygrometer....does it tell me absolute humidity or relative humidity? Right now, it is reading 61%, and the temp is right around 60. If it is reading absolute, chances are, the environment is too dry for the cigars, right.

As long as my cigars have to be stored where they are (they do, becasue in the summer, it is the only place that stays cold enough), i think I should move to 70% beads for the winter.

Am I wrong? My cigars have been smoking fine, but one or two have seemed a tad on the dry side.
Input would be appreciated.
I need just give in and order the cliate controlled cabinet.

IF, on the other hand, the digital reads RH, then I'm all fine, move on, nothing to see here.

Thanks,

Josh

 

[Gonz]

I've always gone by the assumption that we're always using relative humidity in our discussions, and I also assume that our gauges are giving us RH as well. But now you've got me wondering...

 

[TOFan]

I found this on a web site:


"The Western Caliber III Digital Hygrometer accurately measures and displays relative humidity and temperature to ensure ideal cigar-storage conditions."


http://www.lookhygrometer.com/digital-hygrometer.htm

Hope this helps.

 

[Gonz]

I just found this link that states the digital hygrometers we use measure RH.

 

[smokelaw1]

Ah....thanks everybody. Apparently I also am no good at using the internet to find information i want.

I feel better now. Gonz, i was always in the same boat as you, and figured they measured RH, but I got thinking after I read something this morning, and started getting nervous.

Thanks again, everybody,

Josh

 

[NullSmurf]

for our purposes, we use relative humidity. I did only get a "C" in thermo, but I do know that absolute humidity is expressed as grams of water per cubic meter of air. Relative humidity is a ratio, expressed as a percentage of water vapor present versus total saturation.

I believe you're ok at 61%, councelor!

 

[smokelaw1]

Thanks. I think that makes sense. Too many numbers...I jsut like smoking 'em...the whole taking care of 'em thing is a pain.
I reiterate my need to bite the bullet and get a climate controlled cabinet, I'm leaning towards an ariostocrat THC model.

 

[smallg]

Ahhh... now if I made a lawyers salary I would definitely be investing in an aristocrat.

and a plasma... finishing my basement... redoing my kitchen... going to the british virgin islands... am I daydreaming again?

 

[smokelaw1]

Yeah, how about paying for a wedding and a honeymoon in the next three months? Puts a bit of a bite intot he fun budget. Luckily, my cigar budget has been kept seperate from wedding savings (or spending, as the case may be) and I have maintained an appropriate level of support for the cigar industry.
I'm hoping early summer to get a cabinet. We'll see.

 

[Herfin Bigdog]

Smokelaw,

Not a stupid question at all my Friend! I have heard far less thought provoking questions from persons supposedly smarter than you or I.

But no matter someone's level of intelligence, the only truly stupid question is the one that someone does not ask. Some lessons are self-taught.