About a year ago I reviewed the XIKAR PuroTemp Wireless Hygrometer, a wireless system designed to track the conditions within your humidors. The XIKAR system worked, but it was expensive—$79.99 for the base unit, which only included one sensor, and $39.99 for additional sensors. In addition, it was limited to three remote units and the base unit itself didn’t function as its own hygrometer. While I was researching the XIKAR and its competitors I ran across the Ambient Weather WS-10 ($52.99), a wireless hygrometer system that promised to fix many of my gripes with the XIKAR. It was a lot cheaper—a base unit with three sensors was only $60 compared to $160 for a complete XIKAR set-up—and the base unit functioned as its own hygrometer. Furthermore, the system was capable of having up to eight remote sensors, meaning the system could cover a total of nine humidors. The Ambient Weather’s base system shares the XIKAR’s silver on black look, and while the XIKAR looks heavier—largely because of the brushed finish it uses—the Ambient Weather base unit is much bigger and heavier. It uses four AAA batteries, as opposed to the XIKAR’s two, which accounts for the bulk of the weight. The unit ...
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