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  1. So, it's been a bit, and I'm just now getting a chance to do this as an update. I had put some info and pics in a thread that I started about a custom humidor cabinet that I built, along with some further coolerdors: "CanuckSARTech's Custom Humidor Cabinet": http://www.friendsof...howtopic=102883 Therefore, I'd like to share some further thoughts and observations on the above, as well as other items like RH Beads' performance, replacing the reservoir sponge out of your Cigar Oasis / Hydra unit with superabsorbent polymer crystals, and cigar freezing and/or vacuum bagging. Firstly, some further observations of the custom humidor cabinet's performance.... After over two years in use now, my custom humidor cabinet has been running like a top. For those who may have been on the fence about doing something like this yourself - go for it. With over two years passed now, and including two cold and dry winters under it's belt, this thing did great. For the three months or so over winter that the temps outdoors are sub-freezing, my house has anywhere between 22% to 40% RH inside on average. So, the sealing system has performed well in the methodology that I explained earlier about the construction of that cabinet to be able to perform in keeping the humidor interior at the wanted 64-66% RH level. Inside, there are two 8-oz (1/2 lb) mesh bags of RH Beads (65% RH), and one Cigar Oasis Plus XL (now with the reservoir having the green florist's foam sponge replaced with superabsorbent polymer crystals), as well as an Oust fan running. Over the spring/summer/fall, and just from general observations, the Cigar Oasis unit appears to turn on once or twice a day maybe as an average (in the more humid summer months, sometimes only once every few days). Over the winter, the unit turns on more frequently as the air gets dryer as we get further into the winter, up to about two or three times per hour. Regarding refilling the Cigar Oasis with distilled water, it's been fairly good. In the spring, I'm re-filling the approx. 6 oz reservoir about twice for the season (home RH in the 40-55% range); summer, I'm refilling it either not at all or only once per the whole season (home RH in the 50% to 70% range); fall, I'm refilling it about once for the season (home RH right in the 50% down to 40% range); and then in the winter, I'm refilling it about once every month-and-a-half or two (home RH in the 20% to 40% range). The RH Beads are not / have not been re-saturated at all in the two years that they've been in there - I solely have them in there as a buffer for the more humid summer months, and to help level things out throughout the year. With all of this, and using calibrated Xikar hygrometers, my RH has generally stayed at 64-66% RH throughout the year, with the main area of that cabinet sometimes straying up into the 67-68% range right at the end of summer (generally, right near the end of summer's higher RH level, as well as after the Cigar Oasis unit has been refilled, which is placed in that bottom area). But things are nicely levelled off throughout the cabinet by the Oust fan being placed just below the upper drawer, and helping to cycle the air throughout the cabinet 24/7, even when the Cigar Oasis unit's fan isn't running. Similarly, with my coolerdors.... I have three 8-oz (1/2 lb) mesh bags of RH Beads (65% RH) in each of them, as well as an Oust fan running in each one also. The three 100-quart coolers that I now have help give me lots of added storage space for stuff that isn't currently in my main rotation - stuff that isn't in my cabinet, due to a need/want to age them for a number of years yet, or even just due to being a once-in-a-while treat, and therefore not needed to take up prime space in my cabinet. Using this humidification, and as described in my other thread with this (with regards to how/where these coolerdors are placed, and the home temperature particulars), these things have been great as well. The temperature level has generally stayed in the 64 to 67 degrees Fahrenheit range. But, the humidity has been a bit more sloping - from a low of 61% RH, up to right at about 70%. That's a bit of a range there. But that, I'm somewhat attributing to the material of the coolerdor being unable to absorb excess moisture, as well as the occasional addition of new/fresh boxes from overseas, so there's usually a slight spike in RH that I notice afterwards, as the cigar acclimatize to the new environment. But with the added cedar floor base to these coolerdors, there's a minimalization of that now, as well as a minimal variance of RH from top to bottom, with the cedar on the interior base of the cooler being the "buffer" between the cool-spot of the base of the cooler on the cold cement. All told, between the Cigar Oasis in the cabinet, and then the RH Beads throughout all coolers as well, I’ve just today finished up a 4 litre / 1 gallon jug of distilled water that I purchased just a bit after I finished up my custom cabinet. So, about two years of usage on that single jug of distilled water on all this storage. Working good so far!

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