Hi brothers. I recently made the move to a wineador for storage of my collection. My main reason was temp. control as this past summer my coolidor routinely made it into the middle 70s, and I just wasn't comfortable with that. I received this wineador for Christmas: http://www.amazon.com/Whynter-CHC-251S-Stainless-Cooler-Humidor/dp/B00KO90H6Y . Picked it up for $265 shipped from Best Buy. The reason for starting this thread is I'm having trouble getting to the rh that I prefer. Here's the process I followed:
-pulled all the shelves and drawers out and gave the inside a good wipe down.
-installed a ETC through a 1/4" hole I drilled in the back of the unit.
-plugged the ETC wire hole and drain hole with odorless silicone.
-I set the ETC for 69* with a dif of 1*
-Filled 3 Tupperware containers about halfway with distilled water and placed them in my wineador (top, middle, bottom) along with my 2 Caliber IV hygrometers.
-After about 2 days both hygros were reading around 78rh. At this point I pulled out the containers of distilled water and replace them with Mimi Litter. One 6" squared tupperware on the top shelf, one 3" x 2" plastic container that came with the unit on the middle shelf, and a Pudgy Monsters box on the very bottom.
-Around a day later(this past Thursday) the rh was reading 65% on top and 66% on bottom. At this point I moved my sticks into the wineador placing a 69 Boveda on each shelf and in each drawer and 3 humidity gel tubes top, middle, bottom. This was at lunchtime, and by that night hygros were reading 60% top and 62% bottom.
-Same reading Friday morning, so I took each KL container out and gave them 2 sprays of DW.
-No improvement in the readings Sat morning, so I repeated the process. By Saturday night it was at 61% top and 63% bottom, so I sprayed the containers again. Woke up this morning to no change.
I'm starting to get a little frustrated that I can't seem to bring the humidity up to where I want it (65%-67%). I've also noticed that each time the unit kicks on, the rh seems to drop on the hygros around 2% I just wanted to run it by y'all and see if there's something I'm missing, or if I'm just being impatient. I spent a lot of time reading different threads and I didn't get the impression that it should be taking this long to settle in to a good rh if the proper preparations were followed. TIA.
-pulled all the shelves and drawers out and gave the inside a good wipe down.
-installed a ETC through a 1/4" hole I drilled in the back of the unit.
-plugged the ETC wire hole and drain hole with odorless silicone.
-I set the ETC for 69* with a dif of 1*
-Filled 3 Tupperware containers about halfway with distilled water and placed them in my wineador (top, middle, bottom) along with my 2 Caliber IV hygrometers.
-After about 2 days both hygros were reading around 78rh. At this point I pulled out the containers of distilled water and replace them with Mimi Litter. One 6" squared tupperware on the top shelf, one 3" x 2" plastic container that came with the unit on the middle shelf, and a Pudgy Monsters box on the very bottom.
-Around a day later(this past Thursday) the rh was reading 65% on top and 66% on bottom. At this point I moved my sticks into the wineador placing a 69 Boveda on each shelf and in each drawer and 3 humidity gel tubes top, middle, bottom. This was at lunchtime, and by that night hygros were reading 60% top and 62% bottom.
-Same reading Friday morning, so I took each KL container out and gave them 2 sprays of DW.
-No improvement in the readings Sat morning, so I repeated the process. By Saturday night it was at 61% top and 63% bottom, so I sprayed the containers again. Woke up this morning to no change.
I'm starting to get a little frustrated that I can't seem to bring the humidity up to where I want it (65%-67%). I've also noticed that each time the unit kicks on, the rh seems to drop on the hygros around 2% I just wanted to run it by y'all and see if there's something I'm missing, or if I'm just being impatient. I spent a lot of time reading different threads and I didn't get the impression that it should be taking this long to settle in to a good rh if the proper preparations were followed. TIA.
