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Title: Easy, cheap and effective way to calibrate ALL types of hygrometers
Post by: Spoons on December 08, 2013, 02:42:54 AM

I have 2 hygrometers with totally different readings. I just found out that you can easily calibrate a hygrometer with nothing more than a bit of salt, distilled water and a ziplock back. Check out the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7j_Y6XaIk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk7j_Y6XaIk)

After this test, one of my hygrometers was 6% lower than 75% and the other one was a whopping 14% lower. I threw out that one.

Now that I know about this test, I decided to buy the most popular hygrometer cigar aficionados recommend. It's only about $15 USD, and you can easily calibrate it for accurate readings using the salt test mentionned above.

http://www.amazon.com/Quality-Importers-HygroSet-Hygrometer-Humidors/dp/B000H6CZQE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1386470233&sr=8-2&keywords=hygrometer (http://www.amazon.com/Quality-Importers-HygroSet-Hygrometer-Humidors/dp/B000H6CZQE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1386470233&sr=8-2&keywords=hygrometer)

Title: Re: Easy, cheap and effective way to calibrate ALL types of hygrometers
Post by: H-K-J on December 08, 2013, 03:03:33 PM

Here is another way to check and calibrate (http://cheeseforum.org/forum/index.php/topic,9522.0.html) from DeeJayDebi works great for me 8)