What CFM?

[Big Stick]

Im going to install a axial Fan in my 6.1 cu. ft colidor
Was thinking of going with a 55 cfm
Setting the timer to go on 1 or 2 minutes every 24 hours?
Ok here's where you guys come in
Is 55 cfm the way to go?

 

[DePasta]

Sounds like an awful lot. Don't want too much air movement it can dry out the cigars. I think you would want a small fan. I put a 2 cfm fan in my 7 cu.ft. cabinet and it works well and doesn't take up much space.

 

[Big Stick]

Ive used 2 oust in the past
But they dont move shit

Edit: I used the search function but didnt have much luck

 

[Rob_k]

Im going to install a axial Fan in my 6.1 cu. ft colidor
Was thinking of going with a 55 cfm
Setting the timer to go on 1 or 2 minutes every 24 hours?
Ok here's where you guys come in
Is 55 cfm the way to go?

I have an old 80mm computer fan on a digital timer...fires up twice a day (7am and 7pm) for 15min...my coolerdor is 65%, 65 degrees rock steady...a 55CFM fan is way too powerful.

 

[Big Stick]

Ok how about 30cfm

I found this on the net

No air circulation
"A further problem is that even in such a small air enclosure as a humidor, dry zones and damp pockets build up because there is no air circulation in the humidor. This causes massive variations in humidity within the humidor. "

 

[AKmik]

I am putting a wine cooler together, the two fans I have ready to install are two 80mm DC computer fans,25cfm. A light breeze is all you want to move the air. I think 55 may be a bit much.

 

[NullSmurf]

frankly, 25cfm is too much for most. You don't need to blow it around, you just need to stir a little bit. You do NOT want fans blowing on your sticks, even indirectly. If you must use these muffin fans, you should baffle them down with a bit of foam.

Cool, humid air will settle. Place your fans so it will draw on the bottom of your cabinet. You don't even have to point them up. My next air change will include a 2" muffin fan drawing from the bottom and a linen tube that runs up the back side of the humi. Air will exhaust very gently the entire length of the tube.

 

[CoventryCat86]

I wouldn't recommend using any kind of fan at all.

 

[Big Stick]

Thanks All,

Ill put the nixa on the whole fan idea and just stick with the oust's that I currently use

Justin

 

[theorangeman]

I wouldn't recommend using any kind of fan at all.

Why would you recommend this? The reason that I've never used a fan in any of my humis is that I just don't think it's necessary. However, if you have a large cabinet, that's probably another story (or a wine cooler for that matter).

 

[Shooter]

I have a 80cfm fan running nonstop, works like a champ. My humidifier fan runs nonstop also, just when the humidity drops the one fan kicks on blowing humidified air in the path of the other two fans. I keep all of my smokes in boxes so I don't know howw this will dry a cigar out. Also if you are blowing 65% air on a stick how will that dry it out or be bad for it.

 

[Big Stick]

Well, ended up going with this after all
I ll cycle it five minutes every 24 hours
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/productIndex.

Thanks for all the feedback

Justin