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Revitalizer Packs monitor reeds, but you monitor the Packs

Author: ThatPerfectReed
Date: 2014-04-24 17:51

As already well pointed out in prior posts, the Rico Revitalizer Packs, are a technology of Boveda http://www.bovedainc.com/technology/ that were repurposed for the single reed marketspace.

http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=353519&t=353501

This comment is in no way a dig at Rico Reeds, but cudos. They found technologies useful for their business and repackaged them, just like the Lock & Lock 1.5 cup I'm to understand was used as the now discontinued Rico Reed Vault http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/read.html?f=1&i=405047&t=405047.

But I digress.

When I say in my title that you monitor the packs, I'm not referring to your need to replace them every so often--much as this is true.

The reason for this post was to talk about the Revitalizer Pack's ability to control relative humidity, and what this means. I speak for science, not Rico or Boveda.

Relative humdity, as many know, is the amount of water in air, compared to the maximum amount of water that such air, at its current temperature, can hold. Still more, the hotter the air, the more moisture it can hold.

So, all other things equal, if you want to increase the relative humidity of a sealed product sitting out on the counter, merely stick it in the refrigerator.

(By the way, the water that forms outside a cold glass is nothing more than the cool air immediately around the glass unable to hold moisture effectively.)

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The moral to this story is that while clearly, the different relative humidity revitalizer packs differ on when then will absorb or release moisture into the air around them, all else equal, they work as a function of the temperature at which you keep the sealed containers in which they reside.

To point: if your reeds are getting moldy in such an environment, buy revitalizer packs that control relative humdity at lower levels and/or simply air out the container in a dehumdified space, close the top, and stick it in the refrigerator. This coolness will increase the relative humidity and get the revitalizer packs to "take notice" of the water in the sealed container's space sooner.

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