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Homemade active humidifier?

giannilibrizzi

giannilibrizzi

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Hey guys! I am in the process of building my 2nd cabinet humidor...as the first one is now officially....very very full!!!

I have a cigar oasis xl plus in my cabinet now ( 14w x 14d x 60h ) and it works wonders, no complains whatsoever...

My new cabinet is a little bigger (36w x 15d x 84h) and the little oasis will not be enough. Now it might be me, but isn't a cigar oasis a good quality hygrostat, water container and circulation fan? Has anyone of you ever built himself an homemade active humidification device? That is what I am planning to do,and want to know if you had some tips for me...

Thanks alot,

gianni
 
WOW, it must be some kind of record to have 203 views without a single answer.....At least it means that people are interested in the subject I guess...

Ok...then I will keep on investigating and trying to build one myself and post any update on that matter....

If anyone has any idea please share
 
I have a few ideas but it would require that you know your way around ANSI C and a circuit board. I believe an ideal device to use to control everything would be one of Cypress's PSoC's (Programmable System on a Chip). PM me if you want more details.
 
...it's possible to build your own, but I'll bet you won't come out any less expensive than if you'd have bought a tested, proven solution from Avallo. Here's a link.

While I'm a "DIY" guy by nature, the Avallo solutions are pretty cool and offer a solid system to take care of your smokes.

Regards - B.B.S.
 
I made one. I'll see if I still have pix of it somewhere.

All I did was get a plastic pasta container, an exacto knife and an 80mm fan. I wired the fan to an old dc plug from a phone I wasn't using anymore for the power supply.

I ordered 5# of waterkeep conditioned silica for the humidification media.



I plugged it into a regular light timer with the push timers to go off for 20 minutes every 6 hours.



Worked great! The best thing though was the price. I think I had about $25 dollars in the whole thing. Most of the parts I had lying around the house anyway. I could have hot glued some veneer onto the whole thing to make it pretty, but didn't.
 
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