Cigar Oasis Experiment

[shilala]

Originally Posted by ColdCuts

OK, I've been thinking all of this over and my head is starting to hurt.

Wouldn't the SAP, distilled water, and PG mixture render the Oasis redundant? I mean, isn't that combination, more or less, the same as an old fashioned Credo? That mix should keep a humidor at 70% RH all by itself, shouldn't it? No Oasis necessary. Or, is the Oasis still useful in that it circulates the air?

If we're still using the Oasis, what's the PG for? Is it just a safeguard against mold? Because, I thought the Oasis, when filled with distilled water, was designed to regulate RH simply by turning it's fan on and off as needed. If that's true, one shouldn't need the additional hydroscopic control that PG offers. Am I right? I thought that's what was so attractive about active humidifiers like the Oasis in the first place.

And, lastly, shilala, how do you make this 65% RH mix that you mentioned? TIA

He's not putting the pg in his Oasis.
Craig may not use pg at all, he just mentioned he was going to add some more gel somewhere else in his humi. I suggested he may want to treat the gel just to help control the rh%age.
I assumed he was going that way because the Oasis wasn't giving off enough water vapor to maintain his desired rh%age.
The Oasis will only give off vapor. PG and salts will both give up or adsorb water.
Sometimes we have to use a number of means to control humidity in our humidors/coolers/wine coolers.
I'm using HMC beads and a hydra in one of my wine coolers. I'm going to go to that in both my wine coolers and also in my humidor.
It's because it's so dry here that all the beads in the world will still need me to occasionally recondition them. So rather than do it manually, the hydras will do that for me automatically.

Here's the recipe for the 65% mix. It's actually a 66% mix...
65%
12oz. Sodium Nitrate
30oz. Distilled Water
3tbs. gel crystals

[cbsmokin]

I have beads, an oasis, and now gel in my cabinet. I think what I am really doing is trying to stretch out my maintenance intervals for humidity control. I guess all I need to do is add some cat litter to have all my bases covered.

By the way still chugging along fine.

600 posts, yeah!

[cbsmokin]

My experiment is working, my maintenance intervals are down. I love it.