me personally in my cabinet I have a small bowl of distilled water with a fac that bends over the top of the bowl blowing the humidity right up where all the cigars sit....those cigars never have dried out yet so i dont think it would effect it.
I'm pretty confident that a fan blowing directly onto cigars will cause them to be drier. Now, whether it would dry them out to the point that will cause some problems, I don't know. But my point is, I think those cigars will be drier than your other cigars that don't have air directly blown at them. It's a simple matter of convection where the "wind" will cause water in the tobacco to evaporate at a greater rate. I think it'd be best to redirect the flow of air from the fan so that it still performs its function, that being circulating the moisture so that the humidity between the upper and lower layers of your wineador remain the same, but also so that every cigar is experiencing an equal degree of convection.
I'm pretty confident that a fan blowing directly onto cigars will cause them to be drier. Now, whether it would dry them out to the point that will cause some problems, I don't know. But my point is, I think those cigars will be drier than your other cigars that don't have air directly blown at them. It's a simple matter of convection where the "wind" will cause water in the tobacco to evaporate at a greater rate. I think it'd be best to redirect the flow of air from the fan so that it still performs its function, that being circulating the moisture so that the humidity between the upper and lower layers of your wineador remain the same, but also so that every cigar is experiencing an equal degree of convection.
+1. If you think in terms of "micro climates" in gardening it is the same situation. The side of a house can help increase heat, lower wind effect, raise and or lower humidity depending on sun exposure etc. The fan blowing directly on the sticks would cause them to dry out more then sticks which were just exposed to the RH of your humidor without the fan. Can you redirect the flow of air up the side or along the bottom so the it circulates from top to bottom and back?
hey bro could you send some pics of your setup, I've been kicking around getting a wineador for myself and would like to see what the finally product looks like set up.
I hate to say it, but it sounds like you thermoelectric cooling unit went out. Unfortunately, it's not uncommon with those types of coolers. Search around Google a bit. I believe there are ways to fix it instead of scrapping the whole thing.
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