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Okay the Fungus Amungus thread bought to mind a problem I encountered with my cooled cabinet. I was wondering since Tom and Louie have cooled cabinets if they encountered this issue.
As some background on the subject of cooled cabinets, I have an Avallo, DDD cooled cabinet that I put on-line in January of 2007. I set it up at 65 degrees and 63% humidity. The cabinet ended up in the basement and not in my den as originally intended as the second floor gets pretty warm in the summer even with central air. The basement is always cool and in the winter is rarely goes above 61 degrees. So in the winter the cooling unit rarely goes on and the humidity in the basement stays around 45% humidity with a forced air heat system with an Aprilaire whole house humidifier. By the way the humidifier is the best thing I did when I replaced the furnace and added central air.
So my issue was this summer towards the end of the summer. I had runaway humidity. The whole house humidifier is turned off during the summer months. The basement stay around 56-60% humidity and the temp stays about 65-68 degrees. The humidity in the unit kept on creeping up and got to a max of 80% humidity. I proceeded to take all the water out of the canisters and the wicks turn the humidity down to 55% and the temp at 67 degrees. All told it took me three weeks to gradually get the humidity down, including leaving the doors slightly ajar for a few days. I checked all my cigars and found three cigars with early stages of mold, so I put those cigars aside and they were burned to avoid contamination. I since have added two pounds of beads, half pound on each shelf and everything is under control and has been since September
My question to those of you who have cooled units is; have you seen major up swings in the humidity level in the summer? Where is your cabinet located and what issues have you encountered?
As some background on the subject of cooled cabinets, I have an Avallo, DDD cooled cabinet that I put on-line in January of 2007. I set it up at 65 degrees and 63% humidity. The cabinet ended up in the basement and not in my den as originally intended as the second floor gets pretty warm in the summer even with central air. The basement is always cool and in the winter is rarely goes above 61 degrees. So in the winter the cooling unit rarely goes on and the humidity in the basement stays around 45% humidity with a forced air heat system with an Aprilaire whole house humidifier. By the way the humidifier is the best thing I did when I replaced the furnace and added central air.
So my issue was this summer towards the end of the summer. I had runaway humidity. The whole house humidifier is turned off during the summer months. The basement stay around 56-60% humidity and the temp stays about 65-68 degrees. The humidity in the unit kept on creeping up and got to a max of 80% humidity. I proceeded to take all the water out of the canisters and the wicks turn the humidity down to 55% and the temp at 67 degrees. All told it took me three weeks to gradually get the humidity down, including leaving the doors slightly ajar for a few days. I checked all my cigars and found three cigars with early stages of mold, so I put those cigars aside and they were burned to avoid contamination. I since have added two pounds of beads, half pound on each shelf and everything is under control and has been since September
My question to those of you who have cooled units is; have you seen major up swings in the humidity level in the summer? Where is your cabinet located and what issues have you encountered?
