Buidling a new Wineador, have questions

[CEJFNP]

I have the Frigidaire 8 bottle wine cooler and am converting it into a wineador.  I have already ordered the shelving and given it the baking soda treatment.  Per the website I am currently using a half pound of Heartfelt beads or humidification.  I have calibrated a Xikar digital hygrometer, read a perfect 75% using a boveda calibration kit.  My question comes from this.  I am getting wide swings in humidity readings, from 80-95% and have tried putting the hygrometer in different sites.  I dont have the shelves yet to put them in, the wineador is pretty much empty at this point.  Anyone have any suggestions or is this expected?

[Christmas Cigars]

It's going to swing a lot unless there is some wood to hold the humidity. The shelves will help maintain the humidity as well as if you have any boxes that you are going to put in there. I would just make sure there are no holes in the back and if there are just duct tape them shut.

Once you throw the shelves in there the humidity should hold pretty good  :bigup:.

[CEJFNP]

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It's going to swing a lot unless there is some wood to hold the humidity. The shelves will help maintain the humidity as well as if you have any boxes that you are going to put in there. I would just make sure there are no holes in the back and if there are just duct tape them shut.

Once you throw the shelves in there the humidity should hold pretty good  :bigup:.
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Thanks, will try that.  I also purchased a fan to circulate the humidity inside to see if that helps too.  I already plugged the drain hole up, so im hoping when the shelves come in, it levels out.

[purpleloki]

I turned my Koldfront 28 bottle cooler into a wineador and went through the same thing. I used a Hydra humidifier and couldn't keep the rh stable. What I found is that the cooler just flat out [u][b]makes[/b][/u] humidity?! I removed the Hydra and threw a 1/2 lb of bone dry humidity beads in the bottom and viola, pegged at 68% rh! The answer in my case was to made a [b]de-humidifier[/b]. Hope that helps and good luck.  :bangin:

[TheGiver]

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Thanks, will try that.  I also purchased a fan to circulate the humidity inside to see if that helps too.
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Get rid of it. You won't need it. It will cause more problems than you need. Trust.

[Spad31]

just put together a Wineador (NewAir 28 bottle) myself. Quick note for future builders, JIC you missed the detail, a compressor-driven fridge will create moisture/humidity. Better to go with a non-compressed model, IMO.

Mine works like a champ. Wineador.com has a great bit of custom-built cedar shelves, drawers, etc. Give Forrest a try.

-Trey

[Fireant]

thanks for the info, taps. doing this myself with a 30 bottle igloo cooler. gave it to a buddy to do the woodwork, we'll see how it turns out, LOL.

[CigarFreak]

taps, i'm surprised yours holds so well without plugging the hole.  mine have a hell of a time and are constantly dropping rh.

[srob7001]

I also did not plug my drain hole and it holds humidity just fine. Hell, in my whole 28 count wineador I only have 1 65% puck at the bottom and 1 69% boveda pack at the top. When I did have my beads in it from my coolerdor the humidity would sky rocket to the mids 80's.

I'll see how it acts once my drawers from Forrest show up. Saturday is week 4. Right now it is just full of cigar boxes with cigars in it.

[whatadam]

I heard some stories of moisture or pooling at the bottom, I'm curious on how that occurs? Just want to prevent it from happening in mine. Thanks for any help!