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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 502107, member: 6036"]Be sure to measure the humidity. If you have a leaky space, you could be messing with all this dessicant, but only drop your humidity from 50% all the way down to 49%. What a waste of time ! If you don't measure the humidity, you can fool yourself into thinking you're in good shape when you're not. Here is a google search for "humidor hygrometer". For less than $20 you'll know where you stand. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=s7&oq=humidor&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4RNWN_enUS270US270&q=humidor+hygrometer" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=s7&oq=humidor&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4RNWN_enUS270US270&q=humidor+hygrometer" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=s7&oq=humidor&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4RNWN_enUS270US270&q=humidor+hygrometer</a> Be sure to get one that has a "max / min / reset" feature; when you pull it out of the safe, it's measuring humid outside air - not the inside of the safe - so it looks more humid than what your coins are sitting in. You want to know the history... what was the %rh when the safe was closed. The "minimum" value tells you that (what was the driest air since the last time you reset, which you do every time you open the safe).[/QUOTE]