kombat96
Friday, January 25, 2013 5:02:34 AM
Did my yearly calibration on my hygrometers. Same two hygrometers and found the salt test is more accurate. So I asked myself why would ppl use those calibration packets.

1. Noob and hasn't tried the salt test

2. Likes the packets

What say you, what method besides money do u prefer and trust?

DD1700
Friday, January 25, 2013 6:13:12 AM

Did my yearly calibration on my hygrometers. Same two hygrometers and found the salt test is more accurate. So I asked myself why would ppl use those calibration packets.

1. Noob and hasn't tried the salt test

2. Likes the packets

What say you, what method besides money do u prefer and trust?

kombat96 wrote:

My doctor did my yearly calibration but I'm not sure what method it is called.But he likes to talk about baseball when he does it...LOL!!

jpellegrin
Friday, January 25, 2013 6:42:00 AM
The salt test has never done me wrong.
ringsize
Friday, January 25, 2013 7:30:47 AM
Salt does it for me.
GrayBeard2
Friday, January 25, 2013 8:25:16 AM
DD, I hope he didn't have both of his hands on yur shoulders.
DD1700
Friday, January 25, 2013 8:31:56 AM

DD, I hope he didn't have both of his hands on yur shoulders.

GrayBeard2 wrote:

If he did I wouldn't admit it[-( 🤐 🤐

JadeRose
Friday, January 25, 2013 8:49:04 AM
I use a NIST Traceable calibrated GE Optica Chilled Mirror Hygrometer. They run around 10 grand.

but that's just me. I'm guessing not everyone has access to one

rfenst
Friday, January 25, 2013 8:52:47 AM

Did my yearly calibration on my hygrometers. Same two hygrometers and found the salt test is more accurate. So I asked myself why would ppl use those calibration packets.

1. Noob and hasn't tried the salt test

2. Likes the packets

What say you, what method besides money do u prefer and trust?

kombat96 wrote:

If you take a look at more scientific articles on the salt test, some criticize the salt test's reliability. May be they are right, maybe they are wrong. This may be one reason. Another reason is that calibration packets are likely presumed by consumers to be more accurate than "just some plain old table-salt and water. I happen to prefer using a 65% Boveda in my 20-ct herf box. When it needs to be replaced, I buy another one for $4. It first gets used to calibrate my hygro and then goes in to my herf box to replace the one that has dried out.

KingoftheCove
Friday, January 25, 2013 10:40:09 AM

I use a NIST Traceable calibrated GE Optica Chilled Mirror Hygrometer. They run around 10 grand.

but that's just me. I'm guessing not everyone has access to one

JadeRose wrote:

🤣 ....excellent!.....love starting a Friday with a good laugh (even though coffee almost came out the nose)

ZRX1200
Friday, January 25, 2013 10:42:59 AM
I use beads and don't worry about a hygrometer.
whtwtrman79
Friday, January 25, 2013 10:49:41 AM

I use a NIST Traceable calibrated GE Optica Chilled Mirror Hygrometer. They run around 10 grand.

but that's just me. I'm guessing not everyone has access to one

JadeRose wrote:

I totally thought I was the only one..... Good to hear I'm not alone in my OCD/ anal retentive ways!

[sarcasm]

riverdog
Friday, January 25, 2013 10:50:36 AM

I use beads and don't worry about a hygrometer.

ZRX1200 wrote:

Beat me to it. They always stayed spang on 65-66% when I'd recalibrate (salt test) that when the batteries died in one cooler and then the next I haven't even bothered to replace them.

JadeRose
Friday, January 25, 2013 11:51:32 AM

🤣 ....excellent!.....love starting a Friday with a good laugh (even though coffee almost came out the nose)

KingoftheCove wrote:

I'm actually not kidding. I'm a metrologist. My job is to calibrate instrumentation.

z6joker9
Friday, January 25, 2013 11:59:37 AM
Salt works fine for me.
nnightmar
Friday, January 25, 2013 2:42:48 PM
Salt test works just fine.
Numismaniac
Friday, January 25, 2013 6:07:36 PM

I'm actually not kidding. I'm a metrologist. My job is to calibrate instrumentation.

JadeRose wrote:

You must have a walk-in, too!.........or maybe you drilled a hole for the probe, I thought they had come down to around 7500................

saw this one noted in another forum, and thought they were hard core, but I think you've got 'im beat=d>

http://www.theweatherstore.com/op10tehuda.html 

opelmanta1900
Friday, January 25, 2013 6:15:23 PM
When I worked in the beef industry I had a little data-logger box in my office that had probes connected to all the various rooms in the plant... you could plug thermometers, hygrometers, and tons of other instruments into this box and it would keep track of the relative measurements...

the cool part was I could set up high and low limits and any time they fell outside my allowable perameters I would get an automated phone call to me cell phone telling me what the problem was and in which room...

I had never thought of using that in a humidor application before... I'm not obsessive compulsive, but if I was...

whtwtrman79
Friday, January 25, 2013 6:22:12 PM
Funny chit right here
Confuzed
Friday, January 25, 2013 6:50:25 PM
Guess I don't need to say salt..
thurson
Friday, January 25, 2013 10:00:15 PM

I use beads and don't worry about a hygrometer.

ZRX1200 wrote:

+1