Wireless humidity meter for gun safe

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REM1

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Can anyone recommend a good Wireless Humidity Meter for monitoring from outside of a gun safe?

Thank you.
 
No. We ordered two gun safes for our company and getting ready for installation. I couldn't find IDK on the net. Could you please provide a web link?

Thank you.
 
In my experience, if you have central heat and air, there is not really a problem. However, you may be in an area with extremely high humidity and that could have more effect. Again...IDK.:D
 
Besides being in a humid environment the rooms are kept cold for electrical equipment and we want to monitor for above reasons.
 
You might just consider getting desiccant packs from McMaster Carr and see how those do.

Its been a while but I think they have ones that change color when saturated and you can cook out the moisture and use again.

You could buy a Hygrometer and put in the safe and check the level once in a while until you establish you are ok and then base the re-fresh on how the media is doing and trend is going. Establish a safe (pun) time period that is under the high limit you want and just change it based on that.

Your environment definitely calls for precautions.

You would have to drill a hole in the safe for the antennae though as no wireless is going to make it thorough steel.
 
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If the room is kept cold all of the time it should not present a major problem as it would with changing temperatures. I have kept guns in several places with varying temps and never had a problem so you situation will not be difficult to handle.
 
Thank you RC20 & SHOOTNIRON. The temps fluctuate. A Hydrometer with close monitoring seem very logical. I will be placing a new order for the safe tomorrow. We are also on an island. I will be ordering a Liberty Safe heating wand and one of those Remington Model 500 Wireless Mini Dehumidifiers. I will also look at the desiccant packs from McMaster Carr as well if the humidity is unmanageable. These are duty weapons so we coat them with oil and then wipe them completely dry once a week.
 
Yes I was thinking the same thing. That is why I originally posted. After the post I found some rather powerful commercial grade ones, but I don't think I want that in a home environment. I'll just leave one inside and check it now and then more often until I know what to expect. Though the wireless with an alarm would of been nice.

Thx for posting.
 
If you have a decent digital multi meter, you can get UEI or FieldPiece attachments that will work with it to give humidity readings. I have a UEI meter that runs the Fieldpiece Humidity head for it, which was 40 bucks at my local Johnstone Supply (which are everywhere and an HVAC supply house). I did have to buy a set of new leads for my multi-meter that had removable lead tips which plug into the meter and the Humidity head. Not something that you would want to leave on in your safe, but very accurate and reasonably priced for occasional monitoring.
 
I used to use something like this from Radio Shack for my guitars. Not the same unit I have but roughly the same price. I had a couple of the small units in the cases to watch the humidity levels in the cases when I had them stored.
 
Forgot to mention the the Fieldpiece humidity head does also do temperature.

That unit from Radio Shack looks ok. I've bought a couple different table models before and have been asked many times to confirm customers tabletop Humidity monitors and I have found some to be right on the money and some total junk. It's kind of hit or miss there. If you have a buddy in the HVAC field ask him to confirm your tabletop model with his equipment for you. Or you could ask the heater/A/c guy to if you have one in your home for a furnace service ot A/C estimate etc.

There doesn't seem to be a correlation between price and accuracy. I have seen the 8 dollar units right on the money, and the 30 dollar ones similar to the RS model linked to, to be way off. So as I said, it's hit or miss there.
 
Thank you Edward429451 & Bumnote. I am going to look at the radio shack unit and also research the field unit with Johnston Controls. The UEI units appear to be veruy accurate to check calibrations. Thank you again.

REM1
 
Something to keep in mind is that the electronic Hygrometers are iffy for accuracy. You can't get inexpensive electronics that are truly accurate.

The best ones are the old fashioned analog ones.

Don't get me wrong, we use the electronic ones, but I use the analog hygrometer to confirm the true humidity and in my system I can put in an offset value into the electronic unit that gets them correct (plus or minis and often 5% or more) (my humidity units in the computer room while stand alone not only allow you to, but insist you use a analog or sling hygrometer to confirm humidity and then put in the right offset).

http://www.lufftusa.com/tools/categoryitems.cfm?catid=518

I think they were $150 or so.
 
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