Originally Posted by
DanTheBluesMan
I keep my acoustic in its case with a humidor system. We air condition the house during the summer and maybe 2 months a year it is sufficiently humid enough to leave a guitar out. Been watching it get lower and lower the last couple of weeks. That reminds me, I need to replace the packs. I've been using the D'Addario system. I have a new one waiting to go in.
My house gets so damn dry, I have to use two 'whole' house consoles and struggle mightily to achieve 33-35%, it's usually hovering around 30%. The filters in the humidifiers get caked from our water so quickly they basically need to be replaced every month, pretty much from Oct or Nov to April. Miss a fill up and it will drop to under 20% like it was nothing and take 12-18 hours to recuperate most of the way. If the filters get dried out you might as well replace them because you'll never get back over 30% again.