Opinions on possible new humidor

[Ljutic]

What do those of you with wooden humidors use for a % Boveda to achieve a steady rh of what %?

For example, do you use 72% Bovedas to achieve a steady rh of 65%? Boveda does reccomend 72% packs for wooden humidors.

Right now I have 4, 320gr 65% bovedas in mine to maintain a 60%rh.

Just wondering what others use and what steady rh does it give you

Thanks,
Sean

I friggin love cigars

For the 20+ year old desktop in my office I run 72% Bovedas in the Winter and Summer when the HVAC runs frequently. Both tend to dry things out pretty quickly. Spring and Fall the HVAC doesn't run nearly as much with my office being downstairs and only a third the number of windows as upstairs. During these times, I step down to 69% Bovedas. Had to do a battery change or I would be able to show you a bigger graph, but this is the last two months and I believe I swapped 72% for 69% packs two or three weeks ago when I started getting 70% + RH alerts from the hygrometer. You can see the RH is slowly coming back down in the target range with the lower RH Bovedas. I think you will find there is no single right answer and each humidor will have it's own preference for you to discover.

[jrfoxx]

@Ljutic

Yeah, you are definitely correct about it depending on the humidor. Just curious what those in similar climates needed to use to maintain their preferred rh in a somewhat poorly sealing humidor.

Plan on picking up 2 320gr 69% for my 2 to see if it stays in the low 60's since 65% ones have held steady at 60% for a couple weeks now.

The cedar was very heavily seasoned initially and took a couple weeks to come down to about 70% empty, at which point I added about 2/3 capacity of cigars and the boved, and the wood looks and feels fairly dry already, so they may turn out to be too leaky to use if I'm tearing through Bovedas frequently.

At the price of the 320's, it wouldn't take long to justify getting a better humidor. Only problem is regardless of cost, they all seem to be made in china, so I dont want to lay out a couple hundred dollars for another badly leaky humidor.

Any advice on good, currently available models would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I love the Boveda Butler for its size, and since they have been bought out by CI now and are available, what do you use for a hygrometer? Screenshot looks like a Govee to me.

I may just get another Butler even though they are $30, but I like how tiny they are and they seem to work well.

I friggin love cigars

[Ljutic]

@Ljutic

Any advice on good, currently available models would be greatly appreciated.
I friggin love cigars

I think I lucked out when I found mine during the 2000's Cigar Boom. Small shop popped up with limited models and went out of business after the boom. It was digitalhumidor.com The Digital Humidor

1/2" American Walnut shell. 3/8" Spanish Cedar liner. I don't remember it being incredibly expensive considering the inflated boom prices of the time.

[BriarFan]

I like the Tradition more than the others, mainly because it doesn't have external-opening drawers. I think it would be a job to keep those drawers at the proper humidity, even if they are sealed.

I have a Havana Footlocker that I got from Cheaphumidors.com years ago and it has served me well. It holds the proper humidity well over time and holds 300 cigars according to the description, although I've never counted what I can fit in there. Apparently Cheaphumidors.com doesn't carry them anymore, but if you do a web search you can find them.

I don't use Bovedas, but use Xikar or Humi-care humidifiers with the beads that you charge with distilled water and keep it at around 68% humidity.

[jrfoxx]

Just in case I haven't clarified, according to Kayla, only the 2 bottom drawers are real, the others are just decorative knobs as if they were drawers, and the 2 real ones are below the bottom of the floor of the humidor, so they have no effect on humidity.

That said, aesthetics-wise, The Tradition is a gorgeous looking humidor, and even assuming it only held 150 cigars in reality, it would still work for my needs really.

I friggin love cigars