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Easyryder01

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I have the 5 stick Xikar travel case I carry 3 churchills ranging from 50 - 58 ring and then I like for those short moments I'll put in 2 nub size 58- 60 ring. In the middle of the 4 grooves I have the Xikar gel that is the size of a Churchill in there. I also pour some distilled water in the humidifier that is built in too. Is that over kill or it wont do any harm? I was told I shouldn't use the xikar gel tube it doesn't need it, to just use the built in humidifier. Any thoughts on that?
 

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Overkill. What kind of built in humidifier is in there? If it's the foam deal I would probably use the gel tube instead. Preferably, I'd ditch both and go with HF beads. You can empty out that gel tube if it's the right size and fill it with HF Beads. Same form factor, much better humidification media (it controls both ways instead of just one-the gel only outputs moisture, it doesn't take it in if the RH is high). The other question is, how long are you keeping your smokes in the travel humidor? If you are just talking about throwing some sticks in to take to the local B&M or whatever, I wouldn't even worry about humidification. So long as your sticks are well kept in your humidor and well acclimated to the RH within said humidor, these travel humidors typically have great seals and you shouldn't see any issues with them keeping for short periods. Really, if you've got the travel'dor packed full with well acclimated sticks and the seal is rock solid, they should go just about indefinitely without humidification needed. They might dry out just the slightest bit as some moisture will evaporate so that the environment within the travel humidor is in equilibrium, but so long as we are talking a packed 'dor, it won't be much.

Hope that long winded explanation helps. :rofl:
 
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I have a 10ct xikar and use a HF Bead tube and it works great. Matter of fact, I leave on vacation this weekend and trying to decide what to take w/ me. :)
 

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I’m JW on this. If your smokes are normally kept in a good environment, they will be fine in a 5 stick travel box without any humidification for a week or even more. A tiny bit of moisture will evaporate from the cigars and will hold a nice environment in the 5 ct humi. Now if you are going to open it every 15 minutes to make sure you cigars are still there, then yeah they may dry out depending on the ambient R/H. If I am leaving for the golf course or even for the weekend, I will not use anything for humidity. If I am packing up the 18 ct for a longer term, I will use a Boveda pack under the bottom tray. Actually it stays there all the time, keeping the trays humidified all year. For your situation 2 different humidity sources is overkill in a 5 ct humidor. Again on a 5 day trip, with one smoke per day, you could pack 5 sticks, no humidification and be fine.
 

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Have been searching for a good travel case for 10+ sticks that isn't huge... Any great options out there?
 

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Ive only seen the otter box that everyone puts their name on but anything with more than 5welcome they all get bigger and bulkier or wider like a tablet.
 
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