has anyone besides me noticed that your cigar oasis plus doest take into account drops in several degress in temperature when you adjust the conrol knob to a certain level. For example, as long as I keep the room at 72 degrees, I can set the knob at 65 percent and it will stay exactly there, but if the room drops several degrees to 69 or sometimes 70, the guage on my hydrometer will read (64) and I will have to slightly turn the knob to reach 65. Anyone else experience this?

yep.I have the cigar oasis 2

So then when the temp goes back up you turn it back to get to 65%? You're gonna run yourself crazy. Unless you're doing serious long-term aging, people get way too anal about small changes in RH, imnsho. A variation of a couple % either way won't mean much of anything. As long as your RH is roughly between 62-66% your smokes should be fine.

Yeah...don't worry about the numbers...focus on FEEL instead.

Remember one thing , that if your humidor is relativly full, the contents have "mass". It will take time for the cigars and the wood in the boxes and lining to adjust to outside temp and r/h fluctuations.
As previously stated ,don't sweat it, a few points in temp and r/h are nothing to worry over.

RH = relative humidity. The ability of the atmosphere to hold moisture content relative to temperature.

As the temp rises and falls the amount of moisture the air holds changes. Higher temp, higher humidity, lower temp lower humidity. I forget the scientific reasons, but cooler air holds less humidity (moisture)

Don't sweat the small changes. On my less efficiently sealed humis, I make a couple adjustments per year based on heating or cooling the house seasonally.

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Originally posted by stogies&hoagies:
RH = relative humidity. The ability of the atmosphere to hold moisture content relative to temperature.

As the temp rises and falls the amount of moisture the air holds changes. Higher temp, higher humidity, lower temp lower humidity. I forget the scientific reasons, but cooler air holds less humidity (moisture)

But isn't this irrelavent to his question? While what you say is true, the internal hygrometer on the Oasis unit is going to pump moisture into the unit to make it a constant RELATIVE humidity. So, if the temp falls, the Oasis 'should' just pump out a little more moisture to bring it back to a constant RH.

I have my humi/Oasis in my basement. The temperature flucuates between 62 and 70. My RH is always kept constant by the Oasis.

The part at the end about my humi with a less efficient seal relates to his question. As the temp in the house falls, so will the RH level in a humi that is not airtight, therefore requiring minimal adjustments throughout the year.
So maybe if his humi doesn't seal effectively it will need adjustments. I use the oasis in several (three) of my humis and I find I need to adjust them periodically.

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Originally posted by stogies&hoagies:
So maybe if his humi doesn't seal effectively it will need adjustments. I use the oasis in several (three) of my humis and I find I need to adjust them periodically.

This doesn't make sense to me. I would think instead that your Oasis would simply run more to keep up the humidity to compensate for the leakage. Maybe the seals are so bad that the Oasis can't keep up?

In the winter the oasis does run more to keep the humidity up, but an oasis doesn't remove humidity in the summer. Therefore when the humidity is higher in the house (summer) I turn down (actually unplug) them to keep the humidity down. With the 90 to 100% humidity in the summer, I really don't need humidification in my desktops as the cigars alone do that and opening them perodically (daily) adds enough moisture to keep them where I need them.
My aristocrat end table never needs adjusting, but that's a more sophisticated system.

Reading back over the thread, I'm not sure I'm explaining my point properly, hell, I'm not a lawyer.
Let's just get together with a cigar and a drink and solve some other problem with the world. LOL To get back on topic....why yes, I do see fluctuations in my readings, but I don't worry about it.

I was a staunch advocate of the CO until I had mine for about 1 and 1/2 years. It started to malfuntion with the fluctuations in temperature and humidity (I live in the Midwest) When I wrote Lamisis company or whatever that outfit is called that distributes this thing, I got absolutely zero help. Not even a reply. I now am back to the old reliable forms of humidification by Credos etc.

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Originally posted by ryj7x47:
Yeah...don't worry about the numbers...focus on FEEL instead.

excactly! too many people focus on numbers. the feel is most important, plus.... you need to know what YOU like as far as humidity. some people like it a lil drier than others.