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I want to add a wineador to my Saigon office. It's too difficult to do any sophisticated mods over there so I have to work with something stock. I was thinking I'd just buy a stock wine cooler, leave the drain open, and then store each box (or two or three) in a freezer ziplock with a 65% or 70% Boveda. Here's the problem: electrical power is still unreliable in Ho Chi Minh City and every week you get at least one outage that can last from 10 minutes to an hour or two. The 10 minute outage is no problem, but in 15 minutes your office space can quickly go to 85-90F. Getting the best insulated wine cooler I can find is a first defense, but after that, I need to find a way to deal with cigars in ziplocks that are cycling up to 90F and then quickly back down to 65F. It's the "quickly" part that's the problem. If this cycle happens in the middle of the night I can't be there to turn the thing on and off, or open the ziplocks to minimize condensation from the cooling air. Any ideas?