Like so many cigar accessories, hygrometers are judged almost solely on their ability to work and little else. Fortunately, the Western Humidor Caliber 4R ($29.99) does its job of accurately measuring relative humidity; unfortunately, it displays it in a rather annoying manner, almost to the point of rendering that fact useless. And that’s where things start to go all wrong. It’s unlikely you will find any use for this other than cigars, which is fine for our purposes. But the problem extends to cigar-use as well. Humidity is displayed in the following marks: 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60-80, 85 and 90 percent relative humidity—something that is difficult to read. While there is color coding—20-59 and 76-90 are in red, 60-64 and 73-75 is in yellow with 65-72 percent in green—it does little to help get an accurate reading quickly. It also means that for those extremely interested in the humidity, there’s no option to measure humidity to the tenth of a percent, though temperature is displayed down to a tenth of the degree. There of course some very redeeming factors. It’s accurate, even out of the box. It also has a great feature that can display ...
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