For those with wineadors

[jrfoxx]

What do you use for humidification?

Distilled water in a container, Bovedas, Heartfelt beads?

Also, where do you place your humidification device(s)?

Bottom, top, middle, scattered around every shelf?

Looking at getting a 250ct and dont know a lot about them when it comes to humidification

I friggin love cigars

[josh lucky 13]

At 1 point I used an old broken wine fridge (didn't cool anymore). I used kitty litter (poor man's beads) and Bovedas. I would have a container on the bottom with kl and randomly spread boveads throughout.

Now I have a end table humidor basically same setup and the top shelves stay a bit higher in humidity but top to bottom 4-5% and works good for me.

[jrfoxx]

At 1 point I used an old broken wine fridge (didn't cool anymore). I used kitty litter (poor man's beads) and Bovedas. I would have a container on the bottom with kl and randomly spread boveads throughout.

Now I have a end table humidor basically same setup and the top shelves stay a bit higher in humidity but top to bottom 4-5% and works good for me.

Yeah, thinking of going with 3, 65% 320gr Bovedas as they are the most trustworthy humidification device on the market, and 3 should be plenty as it says 250ct, but nothing ever actually holds as much as they say, so I should be plenty good there.

Yeah, I know humidity is always higher at the top, so thinking that putting one in the top to absorb extra moisture, the spreading the other 2 in the lower 2 drawers is probably the way to go.

I friggin love cigars

[Nature]

Same as @josh lucky 13 ; . Using a shell of a wine cooler. Kitty litter crystals (non-scented) for humidity control. About a 1/2 - 1 cup put into a few empty small cigar boxes or open top plastic containers. One is on a upper shelf and one is on a middle shelf.
Same setup in my large tupperadores, except in an open top plastic container on the bottom with trays of cigars or boxes stacked on top.


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[WNYTONY]

I have 3 wineadors. I use Heartfelt beads in an old cigar box bottom in the bottom of the wineador. I put a 69 Boveda on top of the beads and have a 4 holder and use 4 65's in that. During the winter I'll throw another Boveda in the middle drawer for extra humidity but only during the winter when the ambient humidity is so low. But... mine are 28 bottle wine coolers and probably hold 500-600 all stuffed full AND I have some fans wired in to circulate air from the bottom up the back and around to back down the front. Your setup will be different.
The Bovedas alone should be fine but you'll need a few extras to swap out when you need to recharge them.

[jrfoxx]

I have 3 wineadors. I use Heartfelt beads in an old cigar box bottom in the bottom of the wineador. I put a 69 Boveda on top of the beads and have a 4 holder and use 4 65's in that. During the winter I'll throw another Boveda in the middle drawer for extra humidity but only during the winter when the ambient humidity is so low. But... mine are 28 bottle wine coolers and probably hold 500-600 all stuffed full AND I have some fans wired in to circulate air from the bottom up the back and around to back down the front. Your setup will be different.
The Bovedas alone should be fine but you'll need a few extras to swap out when you need to recharge them.

Mind mentioning which brand(s) of wineadors you have?

Why the need to add an extra Boveda in the lower rh winter? Has your wineador proven to not have and airtight seal, or heating and cooling to maintain a stable environment completely isolated from the outside?

Just for reference, this is what I'm looking at:

NEEDONE 48L Electric Humidor 300 Counts Cigar Cooler Humidor Humidifier Box with Temp-Heating 3 Spanish Cedar Wood Shelves & 1 Drawer

Found a place that makes spanish cedar slat bottom (for airflow) drawers to replace the shelves with, as it seems easier and safer, and more likely to fit close to the actual 300 vs trying to stack loose cigars on a shelf.

Will have 4 freed up 65% 320gr Bovedas to spread out from the bottom and in each shelf to the top, so it should have equal rh at every level, especially with the circulation these have.

Also, anyone see any problems with using some stain + poly pre-mix just on the very front of the drawers only to spruce the unit up a bit?

I can get the shelves with veneers on the very front of the same color stain I'm looking at, but frankly this is a cheaper option and I have a little more control over how light or dark they come out doing it myself. I have stained many items, so I'm well practiced, lol

[WNYTONY]

Mind mentioning which brand(s) of wineadors you have?

Why the need to add an extra Boveda in the lower rh winter? Has your wineador proven to not have and airtight seal, or heating and cooling to maintain a stable environment completely isolated from the outside?

Just for reference, this is what I'm looking at:

NEEDONE 48L Electric Humidor 300 Counts Cigar Cooler Humidor Humidifier Box with Temp-Heating 3 Spanish Cedar Wood Shelves & 1 Drawer

Found a place that makes spanish cedar slat bottom (for airflow) drawers to replace the shelves with, as it seems easier and safer, and more likely to fit close to the actual 300 vs trying to stack loose cigars on a shelf.

Will have 4 freed up 65% 320gr Bovedas to spread out from the bottom and in each shelf to the top, so it should have equal rh at every level, especially with the circulation these have.

Also, anyone see any problems with using some stain + poly pre-mix just on the very front of the drawers only to spruce the unit up a bit?

I can get the shelves with veneers on the very front of the same color stain I'm looking at, but frankly this is a cheaper option and I have a little more control over how light or dark they come out doing it myself. I have stained many items, so I'm well practiced, lol

I have Newair 281 wine coolers - there is a thread on my wineador build under the Cigar Accessory forum if you are interested in the specifics.

I have them in my basement which is naturally cool all year so I don't even have them plugged in as they always stay at 70 degrees or less. The ambient humidity will get up in the 60's during the spring thru fall, but in the winter it will drop to about 15-20 so the open and closing pulls in that dry air and the Bovedas need to work harder to maintain. It's what works for me, in my setup. You may not need to add anything, you'll figure that out as you get it set up and maintain it.

Wine coolers typically have a drain hole for condensation, which is where I fed my wiring thru to the inside for the fans. You can plug those, but I did not as the wires take up some of that space and I wasn't concerned about them being perfectly sealed. You do need some air flow occasionally, which is why it is recommended that you open coolers and tuppers every week or so to get some fresh air in. Wood humidors breathe and you want to simulate that in anything else you use.

That's a nice looking unit and you can always use empty boxes to stack in there and help with organization and storage.