New Humidor Setup

[Sr Mike]

Originally Posted by stewshi

Sounds like the wife just gave you permission to fill this thing up.

Very nice setup very jealous ... do you know if Aaron purchased the Vino unit seperate to place on top or was this whole setup store bought?

Yes, she did give me permission.

Not store bought, I was able to find a source for these Vino coolers at around $100 refurbished in Long Beach, CA. These are originally designed to be placed inside the cabinets, but it takes up so much space, and the unit does get warm on one side that setting it up on top seemed more logical to me.

[lbowles2]

Originally Posted by stewshi

Sounds like the wife just gave you permission to fill this thing up.

I was thinking the same thing

Very nice cabinet. I hope to oneday have something like that and a decent manroom to put it in

[dwoodward]

Looks good, couldn't you have just 1 bag of beads on each shelf tho?

[Sr Mike]

Originally Posted by dwoodward

Looks good, couldn't you have just 1 bag of beads on each shelf tho?

Humidity rises

[maverickdrinker]

nice setup man. Lookin good.

[smokin5]

Here's a photo of them loading it into Mike's Truck:



Took several Inmates just to lift the sucker!

[Ogre]

Originally Posted by Sr Mike

I jumped on the opportunity to take this massive humidor cabinet off of the hands of a fellow BOTL. It needed a little bit of finishing work done. Here are some of the specs.
74"T x 48"W x 22"D (actually 18"D due to the 1.5" thick insulation in the back).
It needed seals, I added new door locks, and new handles.

The cooling unit is a Vino Wine Cooler, the exhaust is in the back and it blows air downward, so I cut a hole in the top of the cabinet, added foam seals and placed it up there and out of the way. At first the Vino was only producing room temp air, which was not good. I was concerned that the unit needed freon, this is a closed system.

I opened the unit and found that the unit was mixing the hot exhaust and cool air in the same compartment, separated by removable foam inserts. To fix that, I pulled out the silicone and sealed it all up. Now the unit is keeping the entire cabinet at a perfect 70 degrees.

For humidity, on the bottom shelf you can see the beads I had in my cooler which I bought from Scott a couple of years ago, and a small bowl of water. Under the bottom shelf in the doors below I have a large bowl of water and I just added a 4" fan circulating the air on the bottom of it all because the humidity is higher a couple of degrees on the top shelf holding at 70%, maybe I will use the top shelf for aging. I am still experimenting, I have only had this up and running for about 5 days now, I will have this figured out within the next couple of weeks.

The wife told me I need to get more cigars, as you can see I am lacking. I do have about 15 empty boxes I have collected over the years that I keep inside to help maintain the humidity.

Aaron, thank you brother!!!!

Sweet project brother!! Gonna have a blast fulling that one up