Controlling temps?

TRAVIS

So I read through most of the recent post and I see lots of post about what temp is best. My question is how do I get the temp down? I hover around 78 degree's and it is in the coolest dark room I have. The humidity stays around 71% (finally) Anyways, I was wondering if the mini fans are the best bet? It is a 100 ct humidor with about 80+ sticks in it.

Thank you in advance

phobicsquirrel

The best way to control the temp would be to get a wine fridge, or a little fridge. That way you could control the temp. Other than that I'm not sure.. My house can get warm as well and that is why I had to move my cigars. I actually had mold growing off of my humidifier. It ruined some cigars that had no wrapping. Though everything else was okay. I never really knew how to properly clean it, though all I could do was to wipe it down with distilled water.

Lasabar

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Big Dan

wats a tobacco bettle? how do you know if you have it? and how can you raise the humidity?

rusirius

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rusirius

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rusirius

kuzi16

well... as pointed out before, most of the higher end cigar makers already fumigate, freeze, or vaccuume. i cant speak for the capt, but i dont worry bout beetles that much. my temp and rh are in the safe range and i only have higher end sticks.

dutyje

Fourtotheflush

Im new here, so I want to hear Maddy's story, unless it is too difficult for Maddy to tell!

TRAVIS

phobicsquirrel

Fourtotheflush I love to hear homer when he says that line! cracks me up all the time.

Big Dan

ok well i hope i dnt get them haha i dnt even wnt to smoke them its messed up

jihiggs

I have only ever once had problems with mold, or with tobacco beetles. the mold issue was solved by getting rid of the crappy green humidifier. the beetle incident was brief and insignificant. during my last move, by circumstance I ended up homeless for a couple days and stayed at a friends house with all my stuff in his garage. there wasn't any place to keep my 3 humidors and 1 large coolerdor without his kids seeing and becoming intrigued (something he did not want to deal with) so I left them in the garage for a couple days, left my under charged beads in and the temp got easily 90 degrees for a good 6 hours of the day. When I moved into this place it was during the worst heat wave I have ever seen up here (95 degrees lol) I was worried about my cigars and began inspecting them and expecting to have to throw a good portion of them away. I opened one box and a single beetle flew out. I never found a damaged stick. I think you will run into problems if you have consistent heat problems, in my case it got down to 70 quickly after the heat of the day.

BigDan.

haha well i defeniatly dnt want anything flying out of my humidor, im ordering a 150 ct glass top humi right thts on its way, i expect my cigars a lot on my little humis but im hoping all will be fine. the only problem ive had is that my cigars seem to be hardening

rusirius

CvilleE

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CAcigarguy007

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CharlieCordus

How dry do those beads need to be to soak up the extra humidity? I tried that this summer by throwing in a bunch of the humicare pillows we get from CCOM and it didn't seem to work very well. They were flat so I thought they were 'dry' I was thinking maybe even a little moisture in the pillows was too much.

kuzi16

CharlieCordus:

How dry do those beads need to be to soak up the extra humidity? I tried that this summer by throwing in a bunch of the humicare pillows we get from CCOM and it didn't seem to work very well. They were flat so I thought they were 'dry' I was thinking maybe even a little moisture in the pillows was too much.

those are not humidity beads. those are pillows. they are a very different medium. they let out rh up to a point then stop. they dont soak it up from the air.

CharlieCordus

well that would splain things!