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I would think beads would be easier than the humi-packs. They do the same thing (i.e. absorb or emit humidity as needed), are super easy to maintain, and will last forever.
+1 for the heartfelt beads. I use those in both my humidors and the RH stays a solid 65%. The instructions on them have you only wet 60% of the beads down that way the dry beads act as a buffer to abosrb any moisture above the desired RH. I use 3 1oz sticks in my larger humidor (holds 75 sticks) and thats overkill. However after opening it and checking everything I lose 2-4% RH and once I close the lid it only takes about 15-20 mins for it to jump right back up to 65%.
FWIW I found it cheaper to buy a 1/2 lb bag from them and seperate tubes as oposed to their already made tubes.
As a side note both humi's are already almost filled. I found my new love, Padron's, and have a box comming in a few days with no place to put them. Looks like its time to expand.
Thanks again for all the feedback. I added the cigar box from the B&M, put my humi gel jar back in and it's holding steady now at 66% RH and 22 degress cel.......um aprox 72 degrees F!
See my Humis are probably too full to fit the beads in but I could easily slide a little packet in along the side. I don't know, I just know I'm sick of the humidifiers, falling on my cigars, because the styicky stuff on the back of the velcro doesn't seem to want to stay sticky!
I have a bunch of gel tubes. They go in with the cigars rather than in a central location. I think that this provides more effective humidification ... or I'm just lazy. Pick one.
My digis are just around 68-71 % so I don't know, but yeah, I'm just sick of the things falling, It's in all 4 humi's! So maybe they are just cheap Humidifiers with cheap velcro, I don't know, but it sucks!