Interesting observations on RH

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Originally Posted by T.G

While the premise of higher humidity air stagnating near the beads is valid, the flaw in your theory is that the auxiliary fans ran before too, so that higher humidity air was always being moved around.

What was observed, in a nutshell, is that Steve's active humidifier ran dry, and the humidity went UP in the tower after that happened.


Steve, you said you were away, or not around your humidor anyway, for the weekend. Are you in it a lot normally? That would be the first thing I would consider, that simply keeping it closed for a few days allowed it to rise to the set point RH of the HCM beads.

No, I normally just check the RH through the glass and with such a brutal winter here, I haven't been getting in it to smoke a lot. As for the fans, they were running the same before AND after the active humidity ran empty, so T.G. is correct about that. I just found it interesting that once I stopped introducing additional humidity into my system, that the humidity actually went up. Dunno why, maybe Michael or Shilala will chime in and possibly have an explanation.