In the past, use of a hygrometer was an essential tool in one's painstaking effort to maintain their desktop humidor. The hygrometer was the tool to discover when the humidity dropped too far, representing the signal to refill the humidifying element. Unfortunately, by the time the hygrometer read low, the cigars have already suffered slightly in the process.

To compound the problem, standard hygrometers have an accepted accuracy of plus or minus 3 to 5 percentage points—not exactly ideal when trying to preserve and age fine cigars. Therefore, if using a standard refillable humidifier, no one really knows where their humidity is really at when gauging the level using a hygrometer as the basis.

Fortunately, one-way humidifiers are a thing of the past and two-way humidity control for desktop humidors is here, with Bóveda.

When using Bóveda, it's your option if you want to use a hygrometer as a supplement.

Accuracy of hygrometers are tested against Bóveda—not the reverse.

Use of a saturated salt solution, as used in Bóveda, is the only universally accepted method to determine the true accuracy of hygrometers.

Hygrometers, which measure the humidity of the environment, are not used to determine the accuracy of a saturated solution. Quite the reverse. Chemists and lab professionals alike always use a saturated solution, such as used in Humidipak’s Bóveda, to determine the accuracy of a hygrometer. They never use electronic devices and they never use silica-gel beads. This is why any Humidipak, including Bóveda—not a hygrometer—should be used to establish the correct level of humidity inside your humidor, or to check the accuracy of your hygrometer. No other humidification product currently on the market can make this claim.

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