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Step 6How to Increase the Humidity in your Refrigerator

How to Increase the Humidity in your Refrigerator
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Increasing the humidity in the fridge was a simple matter of adding water.  One yogurt container filled with water brought the refrigerator's humidity to 60%, which wasn't much above ambient.  Three containers, as seen in the images, brought it up to my target of 80%.  If three didn't do it, I planned to expose even more of the water's surface area by floating a sponge in the water or using some gravel or rocks.  

When the temperature controller runs the fridge, the humidity usually drops 10-15%, but climbs back up to around 80% in under an hour.  Since it's cool in the crawlspace, the fridge doesn't turn on much at all, and the temperature stays right around 55°F.

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