Humidor in a wine cooler

[K5mow]

Hi Guys,

I want to ask a question about keeping the temperature cool in my humidor. I was thinking about putting my whole Spanish Cedar humidor in my wine cooler and setting the temperature has high has it will go which is 66 degree's. Has anyone done this and is there any drawbacks to it? Will the humidor being in the wine cooler hurt the humidor finish or hurt it or the Cigars? I have left a link to the wine cooler I have.

Thanks,
Roger

http://www.homedepot.com/Appliances-...Id=10053#specs

[grtrx]

what's the ambient temp in your house?

[K5mow]

Well it is about 76 in the humidor.

[Mad Dawg]

The RH in the wine cooler will fluctuate significantly as the compressor cycles. When I was storing cigars in one, I watched it swing from around 72% to around 45% in about 2 minutes when the compressor kicked on. It is very difficult to control those swings in a typical wine cooler.

However, that's precisely what your humidor is designed to do: maintain stable RH against external fluctuations. The finish on your humidor is specifically designed with that in mind; I doubt the RH fluctuations in the wine cooler would damage it at all.

I'd say give it a whirl.

That said, before I built my closet-a-dor, my cigars were typically stored at around 76 degrees in the summer. Maybe I was lucky, but I never had a beetle problem.

[grtrx]

not sure I would do this, it adds variable that don't seem necessary

[xrundog]

Originally Posted by grtrx

not sure I would do this, it adds variable that don't seem necessary

I know people use wine coolers and are happy with them. It solves the high heat problem in a non air conditioned house that gets very hot. But if your house is typically in the 70sF range, I agree with the above statement.

[Briandg]

For a lot of different reasons, some of which have already been cited and others that will surely come up, I disagree with the idea of putting a humi in a cooler.

If you do decide to do so, get a fairly well sealed plastic storage container and use it instead. If you want the spanish cedar lining, order a cedar plank online and see if you can have it cut to fit the container. This would be far better than a wooden humi in your cooler.

[grtrx]

I have no problem using a wine cooler as a humi if you can set the RH and temp. But putting a humi in a fridge, not sure I like that idea very much.

[jazznut]

I would likely only consider placing a humidor (or other cigar container as cited above) in a wine cooler if the wine cooler were of the thermo-electric type (i.e. no compressor). In such a case, the cooler should be more than capable of lowering the internal temperture sufficiently from the ambient temperature outside the cooler while also not introducing any other anomalies such as compressor cycling (along with accompanying vibration) and wide humidity variations.

[thebayratt]

I did exaclty what you want to do and had no problems at all.
I was waiting on my drawers and had to do what I had to do. I had a 100ct in there for about 4months with no issues. I had it on a wire shelf with the lid open and KL in the vino for humidification.