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[HarveyBoulevard]

It truly is a matter of personal preference. I run two 150 quart coolers with beads and a 200 count desktop humidor that I smoke from.  I keep my house set between 69 and 73 year round so the outside temperature has little or no effect on my cigars as it is relatively constant inside. I don't keep the house at a specific temperature for my cigars benefit, they just happen to benefit because it is how I like to keep my house. It is true that your AC may be running 24/7 in the summer like mine is but with or without cigars it's running. I also prefer to have my cigars tucked away as opposed to out in the open so it works for my particular situation. I think cabinets are beautiful but I don't find that I particularly need one.

As you will see reading through this forum, there are a million ways to store your cigars. You just find the one that works for you and keeps your cigars how you like them to be smoked and you're all set.

 

 

[Bagman]

I keep my house at 75 when I'm at home and 80 when I'm not during the summer.  If I was to keep my house (which is a larger home) at 72, my monthly electrical bill wound hit well over 200 per month.

[HarveyBoulevard]

Most people think I'm crazy. When it hits 69 in the house the heat comes on. When it hits 74 the AC comes on.  My house is always between 70 and 73 degrees year-round.  Luckily I have solar so my bill is not too crazy.

My highest electric bill is around $400 a month and my lowest electric bill is around $100 a month... even with solar.

It doesn't help that I live in a desert climate where in the summer it gets to 110 degrees.

I also like to keep my pool heated to 80 degrees in the winter. Don't ask me about my gas bill.

[Arctic Dude]

In Northwestern Ontario, with the furnace pretty much running non-stop during our winter months (when over Christmas it got down to -41°C with the windchill), I found it very difficult to maintain humidity in my two wooden desktop humidors (one a relative cheapo, but one a fairly decent Adorini model). They were great in the spring, summer and fall, but just too much fussing with in the winter. One is now collecting dust in a closet while the other one stores cedar-smelling trinkets. I now use a combination of coolidors, tupperdors, and NewAir and Whynter wineadors. No more issues with maintaining 65% humidity (with Boveda packs and HF beads). I'm guessing this may be the same issue for you @FreedomMN?!?

[jtfrizzy]

I had %65 packs in the humidor and noticed I could not raise the RH to %65 percent (calibrated hygrometer with %75 packs) it stayed at a constant %60, so when I ordered the %72 packs it brought up the Rh to %65 %64, any thoughts on that? I used weather strip to seal up the extra space the humidor had on the closing door and was seasoned for two weeks with prior to putting in the cigars.

I am headed to Spain Barcelona in a month and I'm going to try to get singles of Limitada's if they have any. 

In the summer I use 65%RH Boveda and they do the trick but I'm in PA and we have cold winters (not as cold as you do up in MN) so when winter comes and the 65%'s stop keeping up I switch to 69% and that usually settles my humidors out at around 66-67% which is a little higher then you'd want to keep habanos stored at, but I've found in winter the 65% struggle to keep my humidors at 60% at that's just to low. Ideally 63-65% for habanos is about the perfect humidity I've found anyways but I don't think having it at 66-67% will hurt much if it's only for a couple months in the winter. Just try to open the lid a little from time to time and maybe rotate the cigars every now and then and 69% should work. If you find 65%'s work for you and they keep between 60-65% then use them for sure.

 

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[PapaDisco]

7 hours ago, Monterey said:

I never understood the tupperdor thing.  In the long run, it is much more expensive.  

The key is that it requires a space that's "temperature stable." In my case, the 150qt tuppers go in a cellar that hardly moves all year.  So that's the key.

I love the science of active temp and humidity control, but over the course of 10-20 years passive is the ultimate imho.  Mechanical systems can fail, and if you give them enough time it's a certainty.  However, if you're trying to store 50-100 boxes living in Phoenix with no basement (and a really deep basement at that!), well practicality dictates a nice, custom made tall boy, active everything, humidor.   

[CaptainQuintero]

On 28/01/2018 at 1:19 PM, FreedomMN said:

I had %65 packs in the humidor and noticed I could not raise the RH to %65 percent (calibrated hygrometer with %75 packs) it stayed at a constant %60, so when I ordered the %72 packs it brought up the Rh to %65 %64, any thoughts on that? I used weather strip to seal up the extra space the humidor had on the closing door and was seasoned for two weeks with prior to putting in the cigars.

I am headed to Spain Barcelona in a month and I'm going to try to get singles of Limitada's if they have any. 

Something lots of people can overlook of that unless you're spending triple digits on scientific quality hygrometers, anything you have has a margin of error of 2-5% ish. 

[PuffDaddie]

Nice start up collection.

[FreedomMN]

I am going to leave it be for know due to the harsh winter we are getting right now, the hygro is reading %65, i truly believe my humidor has a leak of some sort and tis the season to buy a wineador or some sort.  With the fluctuation of minus 2% or plus %2 I should be ok till the winter calms down and I get into a tight sealed device.  I truly appreciate all the advice I received from this.  

[PrairieSmoke]

Yeah as a fellow MN I’m sort of regretting getting a tabletop a while back instead of just biting the bullet and doing a wineador rig. I already have two desktops, I’m thinking I see a wineador in my future within the year.


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