Desiccant (Page 2): When it your in the pink, your good to go.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

JD345 wrote:

Mmmm, fresh baked.

When's the last time you baked your desiccant?

When it your in the pink, your good to go.

Tracy B. Loc: Indiana

I'm having the opposite problem. Not enough mositure. In my office where my equipment is stored it show 27%. It's recommended to be abot 30-45%.

NormanTheGr8 Loc: Racine, Wisconsin

I've got the whole fam damily saving them when they open a pill bottle or box wirh electronics in than I throw them into a large ziplock with my camera when I come in from the cold winter weather . I just toss them after the 3rd or 4th winter hike. Sometimes, I wonder if they can be recharged but as of now I haven't made the effort,
As far as smells coming from my kitchen this is day 2 of my homemade sauce for tomorrow's Lasagna ! The house smells sooooo good, someone should make a Italian kitchen candle scent .

dbfalconer Loc: Salida CO

Newbie here. Never heard of keeping desiccant in camera bag or baking desiccant. What size packet is needed? Is a little 1" pouch (like comes in a shoe box with new shoes) enough? Or do I have to buy at a camera store?

camerapapi Loc: Miami, Fl.

I use DampRid, a granulate I buy at K-Mart or Walmart and change it periodically as it collects humidity.

MidnightManiac

Use the 40 Gram Silica Gel Canister in my camera cabinet. When traveling use silica gel packets in my camera bag. I've only had to recharge my canister once. I put it in the oven at 250 degrees for a couple hours and it comes back to life...You can pick up the canister on Amazon very reasonable. Keep those lenses dry!!!!

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

MidnightManiac wrote:

Use the 40 Gram Silica Gel Canister in my camera cabinet. When traveling use silica gel packets in my camera bag. I've only had to recharge my canister once. I put it in the oven at 250 degrees for a couple hours and it comes back to life...You can pick up the canister on Amazon very reasonable. Keep those lenses dry!!!!

A silica packet in a camera bag is useless. Too much moisture from the air getting into the bag renders the packet useless against moisture after the first hour are so. These packets are designed to be used in sealed areas. Like a new factory sealed boxed camera or in a safe. A camera bag is not sealed and therefore it is extremely hard to keep moisture out. Once you open the bag, your done, and probably long before that.

JD345 Loc: Wisconsin

dbfalconer wrote:

Newbie here. Never heard of keeping desiccant in camera bag or baking desiccant. What size packet is needed? Is a little 1" pouch (like comes in a shoe box with new shoes) enough? Or do I have to buy at a camera store?

When we got a dog the amount of hair/dust in the house increased by about a factor of 1,000,000. So I put my lenses in sealed containers. Since the air in the container was stagnant, I had to keep it very dry. I went the reusable desiccant route, but as you see in the responses there are many ways to accomplish the same effect.

graybeard

Are those little plastic things you get in your RX bottles Desiccant? Would they serve the same purpose ??

joer Loc: Colorado/Illinois

JD345 wrote:

Mmmm, fresh baked.

When's the last time you baked your desiccant?

It is effective when freshly charged and put in the right container, but of little or no value in a porous bag. They are just taking space.

EdR Loc: Gig Harbor, WA

The way I use to dry my hearing aids desiccant is to rejuvenated in the microwave in a glass container as I was instructed to do by the VA.

wj cody Loc: springfield illinois

desiccant, desiccant mucho, each lonely dream would depart and my life would be through.....