New Humidor help

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Originally Posted by SilverFox

I am going to respectfully disagree with moses here. Keeping the humidifying element full of distilled water defeats the purpose of the humidifying element, it is meant to stabilize humidity in your humidor and if it is constantly full of distilled water then it cannot absorb any water. It would be likely if you did that you would find your RH getting too high. Smoking wet sticks (70%+) is not a great experience in my opinion.

Just because you keep your humidity element full of water does not mean it is going to be used to its full capacity. We should've qualified what humidity elements are being used. Take for instance a Diamond Crown element. There are slats in it to increase or decrease how much water is being released.

I often wonder what all fuss is about in a humidor, virtually anything can hold 70% or less humidity and it's absurdly easy to hold it when a humidor is filled. Even the notion of calibrating the humidor with hydrometer is a little overboard. Do you cigars have a little spring to them? Are they brittle? Do you like the way the smoke? Those are the only questions that really mean something. A number (hyrdometer in a desktop) is number and doesn't mean much if the cigar is not smoking the way you like.

Ultimately, the cigars will tell you if you need more or less humidity and I agree that 70% is too humid. I keep my max humidity at 65%.