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I live in an apartment without central air. In the summer the house temp ranges wildly. We see temps in the house north of 85 degrees F in the summer. I bought a half chest freezer and hooked it up to an ITC 1000-F (https://www.amazon.com/Inkbird-ITC-1000F-Temperature-Controller-Fahrenheit/dp/B07R46D44T) Boxes, singles, and a data logger go inside various Sterilite storage bins with boveda packs of appropriate size in them. The bins go in the chest freezer. The temp controller cycles the chest freezer on and off. For the most part the temperature is within +/- 1deg F of what I tell the temp controller to be in the summer. I think a massive reason this works out so well is the container in a container setup I have going. I wouldn't thing things would be so great if I just put boxes or trays in the chest freezer. I have often wondered how it would work out if I built a cedar box to go inside the chest freezer. Would that buffer the temp swings within in the freezer as well as my tupperdors seem to be? I do not have a heating unit in the freezer and just pull the bins out and put them in the house during winter. This is when the bins experience their biggest swings in temp and RH (my wife wants the house at 70 during the day, I want it at 65. Married men know exactly what I'm talking about). My wife is accepting of the eyesore of the chest freezer largely because I keep it isolated in the single closet I've been allotted for personal storage. I'd like to get some kind of reliable heating in the chest freezer to smooth out the winter swings. Not sure what I'd chuck in the unit to accomplish that as of yet. I'm bringing all of this up because the chest freezer and temp controller were very inexpensive, have lasted a number of years now (8-ish years) and minus my total lack of solving the heating issue, seems to be doing pretty alright on the cheap.

Ah. Unfortunately my deep freezer is used with a temp controller as a humidor.

"We" being the folks around here, perhaps. But I can confidently say there are people out there who are not beyond that. I know people who have boxes in their houses right now with bogues serials/repeated microprinting, etc. I buy here exclusively, so I'm not worried personally.

Did anyone see/does anyone remember the poll RE: freezing from 24:24? I personally haven't been, and don't recall every opening my freezerdor and having reason to panic. My mind can be changed, of course.

Just popping in on this (young old thread) to point out: If you're asking RH% questions and looking for help you have to include temperature with your RH% reading. IE: I was reading 65% at 66 Degrees F, and now I'm reading 69% at 59 Degrees F.

I've been reading here and wondering why there can be a lack of "let me walk you through this".

My eye still can't pick up things like the font. I have to go off of "sensible" things like the serial and code matching chronologically etc. There are SO many people out there who don't even know about the basics like the microprinted serial.

One of the clues here being the white boxes having no gap betwixt the gold band and the white boxes, correct?

A portion of this has to have something to do with the reality of "I am working as hard, today, as I did yesterday."

One of the real shames is if you didn't know, you wouldn't know.

Here's what I would do, personally: Wait, observe, and smoke something from the humidor in the next few days. The cigars themselves are humidity buffers, of a sort. If the humidor starts ticking up and the cigars are smoking well: Joy If the humidor does not start ticking up and the cigars are smoking well: Medium joy, and consider checking the calibration or your humidification/humidor setup. If the humidor does/does not start ticking up and the cigars are smoking poorly: more rigorous investigation into the humidor and your humidification method itself comes on the table. I use a large coolerdor with an HTC temp controller wired to a chest freezer and a data logger. The above is my thought process for maintaining my stock; Data is good, but I contextualize it against what's going on with the cigars as well (are the cigars happy/or sad?).

If you've added 50 cigars and a cabinet to your humidor there's potential for an adjustment period, depending on how the cigars and cabinet were kept. What are you using as a humidor? If the temperature is stable, and there's a known quantity of "water" in the closed humidor things are going to level out.

Have their been any temperature swings? I'm guessing it's reading "consistently" at the RH you mentioned, but at what temperature? Was the RH and Temp reading consistent before the move? Did you move the humidor after adding the cigars/cab? Did you add 25 singles and a 25 cab with 25 additional cigars in it (for a total of 50 new cigars in the humidor)? What are you using for humidification? And certainly adding cigars could cause some fluctuation. Sorry for the string of questions. I'm waiting for Pig to pop up. The good news is it's all going to be fine, pretty much regardless.

There is an awful lot of winning going on in this. I had seen it around the internet but hadn't watched it yet. I'm glad I let FoH have the distinction of bringing this to me.

+1 Internets to you, Sir.