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Joined: Jun. 1 2010
From: Halifax, Nova Scotia
RE: Oasis case humidifier (in reply to Ramon Amira)
I swear by these, although I just use the ones that hang in the soundhole. I can't stand the sponge style humidifiers as they always seem to get mouldy.
I live in an exceptionally dry climate, its not unusual for the humidity in my house to hover around 20% for weeks. I'm using two of the Oasis now, one hanging in the sound hole and another attached to the side of the case. I was on a trip recently for 10 days and when I returned the humidity inside the case was still 50%.
I used a blue kitchen sponge down at the headstock end of the case for awhile but it was just too messy and difficult to keep moisture off the guitar.
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The climate here is similar, tamoio. Especially dry in the winter since we're using forced air heat. The low cost is worth the extra piece of mind for me.
RE: Oasis case humidifier (in reply to Ramon Amira)
I just made a disturbing discovery yesterday after I bought an electronic device that measures the temp and humidity in percentage. I have the Oasis humidifer which goes into the soundhole of the guitar, so I put the device under the headstock in the the case, closed the case for a while and opened up to see what the reading was, guess what? it was 28% at the headstock.
I took out the guitar and put the humidifier right next to the device and closed the case, after a while it was only up to 30% . those soundhole humidifer can only provide 30% what the??? NOW I NEED 2 humidifers, one in soundhole and one in case. so now im thinking of getting this Case humidifier
I guess there is always the possibility of some conspiracy between the humidifier manufacturers and the digital hygrometer industry.
Actually I think finding an accurate hygrometer for less than $1000 is pretty difficult, I wouldn't mind knowing the error range on the little guys.
EDIT> From what i can find it looks like all these mini digital hygrometers are spawned from the same source in the industrial wastelands of China, they claim an accuracy of +- 4% to 6% which ( if you can believe it ) is plenty in the ballpark.
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