Hank_The_Tank wrote:Looking to finally make the jump to HF beads. Any info someone can provide to help get me started will be appreciated (meaning what to do, start to finish).
Step 1: Get out your wallet and prepare to pay an obscene markup for calibrated sand that the vendor got for a tiny fraction of the price he's charging you, from a secret supplier he'll never disclose.
Quote:For the Boveda packs, do you actually have to replace every couple of months or do they last longer than that?
You have to replace (or even touch) them literally NEVER, if you have another easily-refillable source of humidity in the same container (e.g. a gel jar chargd with PG, or similar). It emits humidity and the Bovedas do "2-way buffering" to smooth it out. You get rock-solid RH, zero hassles, and can refill with distilled in seconds, although with plastic/Tupperware it's necessary only very rarely. As I said, the Bovedas never have to be replaced or even touched.
If you don't even want to pay the markup on the ready-made PG gel jars, you can just make your own with the generic super-absorbent polymer, any plastic jar, and some 50/50 PG solution, all of which are dirt cheap from lots of well-known suppliers, not super-duper-secret suppliers like the bead re-sellers apparently use (and guard the identity of closely).
Lots of guys here look down on the PG-infused gel jars, but if you team 'em up with Bovedas, it's a hell of a great, cheap, low-hassle solution. Yes, yes, everyone says they have a mold problem, but 10 years later I'm still waiting for it, and it hasn't happened yet!