Site Map





Cigar Videos
Cigar Insider
Cuba
Moments to Remember
Golf
Back Issues


Online Advertising Info


Cigar Aficionado Online    Cigar Aficionado Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  Cigar Talk    ???Don't do the salt test???
Page 1 2 
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
-star Rating Rate It!  Login/Join 
Member
Picture of Ron62
Posted Hide Post
I bought a Boveda 69%, hydrometer and test kit. When I did my test for about 36 hrs it came back at 68%, so -7% reading. Does this mean the hydrometer is bad, or just aways off?

Not trying to hijack thread, just wanted to ask.
 
Posts: 65 | Registered: November 27, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Member
Picture of SteveSur
Posted Hide Post
Hi Ron, its just off. In the future just add 7% to all readings. Being off 5-7% is typical of most hygrometers.
 
Posts: 1649 | Location: CT | Registered: November 01, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Member
Picture of Gespinoza1
Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Docbarry:
If the cigar feels good and smokes right it is just fine.



Best Statement Ever. Cool


"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

Rush
 
Posts: 832 | Registered: July 26, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Member
Picture of V.O.
Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Docbarry:
quote:
Originally posted by Fat Weed Esq:
quote:
Originally posted by Docbarry:
In most cases you can not calibrate a digital anyway, so why bother?

Doc,
wouldn't you want to know how much your hygrometer varies? I think many of us have at least a slight case of OCD and want to obsess over minutia. Smile


I use beads in my Cubador and a set and forget in my cabinet. I have digitals in both but I rarely even look at them. If the cigar feels good and smokes right it is just fine.
Like I wrote, that's the most reliable "test". But don't you want to know what are the readings when the cigar feels good and smokes right? And if the cigars all of a sudden feel bad and smoke wrong - you certainly would want to see what and how much has changed.
 
Posts: 1592 | Registered: October 21, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Member
Picture of Fat Weed Esq
Posted Hide Post
I want to know what went wrong ans why, so I can fix it. I have a new RyJ wine rack humidor with a set it and forget it and it has been very consistent. I think I am with Doc on that one...I may just stop checking it!


"Et tu, brute. -Julius Caesar"
 
Posts: 653 | Location: Southern California | Registered: August 07, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Member
Picture of signalhill323
Posted Hide Post
If that RyJ wine rack humidor is anything they have on display at my local b&m, I'd have to say that thing has an amazing seal. No doubt your humi contributes to your steady readings...


"Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do." - Bruce Lee
 
Posts: 1032 | Location: Signal Hill, CA | Registered: April 26, 2007Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
 Previous Topic | Next Topic powered by eve community Page 1 2  
 

Cigar Aficionado Online    Cigar Aficionado Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  Cigar Talk    ???Don't do the salt test???

© Cigar Aficionado Online 2005