Hello Fellow Aficionados,
Last week I bought an electric humidor a brand called Bogino 250 cigars (only relatively good priced I could find in my country, and recommended by a few friends)...
I seasoned it using the Wipe Down method for 4 days, getting the RH to a stable 90% and then put two 320g 72% Bovedas in it for 2 more days.
On the day before I was planning on putting my cigars in, the electric current cut and I noticed that the humidor was reading 40F temp!
I researched a bit and found that when current cuts the fridge resets to lowest temp.
Of course this fluctuation in temperature caused the RH to drop to 60%.
I turned it off, bought a UPS and let the temp re-stabilize to the desired 65F (max setting), then turned it back on and let it go for another day to make sure it is stable, which it was.
Yesterday I decide to put my cigars in, by the end of the day the temp was down again to 45F and by this morning down to 38F! And of course humidity down to 58%!
I left the cigars in and turned off the fridge and will check it in a few hours.
I don't know if this is all normal? Is there anything I can do? Is the device faulty?
The supplier is as confused as me, he is not being evasive and trying to be helpful, but I think this type of situation is not something he has faced.
I thought I'd reach out here before giving up completely on the machine..
Thanks.
Last week I bought an electric humidor a brand called Bogino 250 cigars (only relatively good priced I could find in my country, and recommended by a few friends)...
I seasoned it using the Wipe Down method for 4 days, getting the RH to a stable 90% and then put two 320g 72% Bovedas in it for 2 more days.
On the day before I was planning on putting my cigars in, the electric current cut and I noticed that the humidor was reading 40F temp!
I researched a bit and found that when current cuts the fridge resets to lowest temp.
Of course this fluctuation in temperature caused the RH to drop to 60%.
I turned it off, bought a UPS and let the temp re-stabilize to the desired 65F (max setting), then turned it back on and let it go for another day to make sure it is stable, which it was.
Yesterday I decide to put my cigars in, by the end of the day the temp was down again to 45F and by this morning down to 38F! And of course humidity down to 58%!
I left the cigars in and turned off the fridge and will check it in a few hours.
I don't know if this is all normal? Is there anything I can do? Is the device faulty?
The supplier is as confused as me, he is not being evasive and trying to be helpful, but I think this type of situation is not something he has faced.
I thought I'd reach out here before giving up completely on the machine..
Thanks.