Ok most of you know I am new to this and I just wanted to show off the finished project, if you would even call it that. I would just say it's my first long term storage device for cigars. I am humbled to be here please... Don't **** me up :-)

As you can tell I used a spare container to make a little self and it's pretty stable. Now lets hope I didn't over hydrate my beads!:-) I was excited... It was at 64 because I haven't even had it there an hour and had to take it out and dry it a little so the humidity dropped. Hasn't even been in there 6 hours yet and I keep opening it so I know it will most likely go BACK up after I got it down lol.
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64-66 Is My Preferred Humidity. Most Of Us Like To Keep The RH Below 70. I Have Several Coolidors; I Feel They Are Best For Long Term Storage.:-)
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Looks good to me. Like Greg, I try to keep my humidity around 65%.
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64 is fine.

You might want to consider a second coolidor for the non-infused cigars. If you leave them all in the cooler together, they will eventually pick up the flavors from the infused cigars.
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Woke up and the rh is 78... I think I put too much water on the beads.
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Yeah, it can take a bit to get things dialed in and the percentage RH to your desired level. I generally like my Nicaraguans at 71.23% +/-1%. I find generally the draw isn’t impacted and the flavor improves however you will get wonky burns, e.g. keep the lighter handy for corrections. If burn consistency is a priority to you, and to many it’s a big deal as Cigar burn maintenance is annoying, then 68.12% +/- 0.75% is great.

What did we ever do before digital hygrometers. We had to look at a gauge that was +/- 5% accuracy and do salt calibrations is what we did! You have not fully embraced Cigar humidity if you have not salt calibrated your hygrometer IMHO.

I’m ever helpful :-) :-) :-)
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Since no one else has mentioned it, that cooler is obviously too small!
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I'm going to soon BUT I used this for another project and know it's fairly accurate.
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:-):-):-)
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After I took the over saturated beads out and put some in that weren't wet at all, it seems to leveled out at 71. Oh the temp is always great too, 70.
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Just know you will have some fluctuation as things stabilize. All depends on how dry/wet your cigars are and any boxes they may be stored in. Don't fret it.
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Yea I figured that. The cigars were wetter then normal I guess because I took them from freezer to storage after only letting them sit out for two hours.
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It is NOT because they only sat for ..... they are (usually) shipped at a high humidity .

Don’t add water to yer beads ever ... I use a small block of florists foam (about the size of a bar of soap) to add humidity to my coolers(beads) ... and (once again) NEVER wet the beads .

In regards your hygrometer ... don’t calibrate just find an RH that works for you and go with that ... doesn’t matter if it’s 62 or 65 as long as they smoke good .

Derrek
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Yea I am figuring that out about beads now. It seems all I had to do was raise the RH then put the dry beads in and they lowered it to 70 easily. I am drying out the soaked beads now. Do you leave the beads in there with the foam or do you let the foam sit in there for a while then put the beads in to lower the RH?
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I think you are losing your foothold!!!


:-)
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I'm already in too deep :-):-)
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You can’t claim humidity obsessed until your filling containers with salt and micro tweaking your hygrometers. Don’t listen to the nay sayers, chemistry works and hell with hygrometer quality assurance. Salt, distilled water, sealed container, and a tenth of a percent adjustment of the Relative Humidity. Relative to what? Hmmmmm, best eliminate doubt.
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Distilled water? Really Dave?

Real humidity tweakers only use deionized water...:-)
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Oh damn! Is there such a thing as deionized distilled water?

I may need to go for level 11 humidity obsessed!
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O.M.G. Deionized distilled water, that would be like calling into a live radio program and not turning down your speakers, or pointing two metal detectors at each other. EPIC.
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