AuTechCoM's Step By Step Newair AW-280e guide

[allusred]

You can put wine in these? Who knew!

It's the other way round.
Unless you do want Grape infused cigars...
If you do want such, I believe you can some already so infused.
Save yourself some money, and you avoid becoming a wino too.
Now here is the easiest way to do this.
Do not smoke any cigars that have larger ring gauges,you would either crush them or,
have to cut them down in size, this could well have a negative effect on how they smoke.
Do use only cigars of the smaller ring gauges which you can easily slip into a wine bottle.
Note you need to uncork or unscrew the bottle first.
Caution, if you break off one end of the wine bottle not 0nly will you have to live with the smell.
but the cigar will keep moving about resulting in uneven infusion.
The wine could evaporate before you are ready to smoke that cigar, and you end up with a dried out cigar.
One final tip, if you think the wine bottle is too full to allow the cigar to placed in there before resealing.
Pour some the wine out into an ashtray or other container then discard outside well away from the house.

[bluenoser]

When seasoning did you run the wineador?

[AuTechCoM]

When seasoning did you run the wineador?

No i actually did not even plug it in until my room started to get hot. I almost regret plugging it in now. before I powered it up i was maintaining rock solid at 65%RH throughout the whole thing. now i need to build a fan rig because the top is at 70% and the bottom hits 59%.

[projectsunfire]

No i actually did not even plug it in until my room started to get hot. I almost regret plugging it in now. before I powered it up i was maintaining rock solid at 65%RH throughout the whole thing. now i need to build a fan rig because the top is at 70% and the bottom hits 59%.

that's a fairly large difference. Mine is within 5% from top to bottom

[AuTechCoM]

that's a fairly large difference. Mine is within 5% from top to bottom

It fluctuates throughout the day. The problem that I think is the biggest cause is that where I have been allowed to place it by SWMBO is against the east wall that is across from a window and it puts direct sunlight on it. I notice that in the morning when there is no sun exposure it is a minimal difference.

[Zeede]

Can you put something over it or in front of it to block the sunlight? Maybe you can put something on the inside of the glass.

[AuTechCoM]

Can you put something over it or in front of it to block the sunlight? Maybe you can put something on the inside of the glass.

I have done this and it does help. However my 1 year old son has discovered that he gets a lot of attention when he messes with daddy's humidor

[projectsunfire]

It fluctuates throughout the day. The problem that I think is the biggest cause is that where I have been allowed to place it by SWMBO is against the east wall that is across from a window and it puts direct sunlight on it. I notice that in the morning when there is no sun exposure it is a minimal difference.

I would have to think that direct sunlight is definitely going to make it difficult to keep consistent. You said it was stable at 65 until you plugged it in. So it was still getting direct.
sunlight but that did not make it fluctuate?

When I first got mine setup I was incredibly OCD every time it changed +/- 1%. I still check it every day but as long as its no more than 3% off my target then I don't even think twice. And even then I usually just wait a day and then its back to normal. I have accepted that its just going to fluctuate. Plus unless are are spending mega dollars on a nasa level instrument...these hygrometers are not going to be 100% accurate anyway.

[AuTechCoM]

*UPDATE*

This has single handily been the best investment I have ever made. My wineador had been neglected and not even opened for a couple months and is still holding perfect RH with no signs of mold or any negative affects.

[WNYTONY]

*UPDATE*

This has single handily been the best investment I have ever made. My wineador had been neglected and not even opened for a couple months and is still holding perfect RH with no signs of mold or any negative affects.

So it's still half empty ?