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I figured I’d start a new thread for this. I just got this today. I’m sure most of you guys already have humidors at this point but I know how collections can grow. I decided on this vs a larger wine cooler due to space and obviously this will help control buying cigars once my cooler is full to preferred capacity

Sunoverbeach touched on this topic for me in another thread but I’m curious how some of you guys would approach humidification.

I did use the search function. That led me to buying hx 10 humidor beads. I have plenty of 69 boveda and also 69 percent integra 67 gram which I was using before I knew what boveda was.

Dimensions as I measured them. 12.5 inches deep 11 inches wide 21 inches tall. All internal measurements

In my mind I thought this thing would be just a tad larger but also it’s a bit deeper than I originally planned. I like the look and size of it.

I’m curious how anyone who is willing to reply would set this thing up.

Sunover added he was happier with 65 boveda. I’m still new enough that I don’t know exactly where I want them.

I have 6 of the hx 10 beads. All input is welcome. Thanks I’m advance

Remind me to tell you about my bulk collection of emergency Tupperware

I keep most of my cigars in a cooler and glass jars, they are air tight so I don't have to worry about losing humidity. My humidor depends too much on the weather. I live in mich so it's low humidity in the winter and high in the summer which effects my humidor quite a bit. This time of year, it's 72% boveda packs and in the summer, when I have to store my cigars in the basement where it's cooler, I use 69% and thinking of dropping to 65%. With a wood humidor, it all depends on your ambient temps and humidity. For the most part, I like my cigars between 65% and below 70%.
I'm thinking of retiring my wood humidor all together, too much maintenance.

My suggestion is to pick one of the coolers for aging and one for actively smoking. (Especially if you are aging singles.). For my beads (except for a couple that came in their own sack), I have them tied off in little pantyhose things. Easiest way is to go to a shoe store and grab a few of their “try on” sock things. I then spread the
Title balls of beads out in the cooler. It worked great in a 64qt cooler and now works well in my wineador and humidors.

Good luck.

I have the NewAir CC-100H which seems almost identical to yours but maybe a little smaller. After I seasoned mine I had to put 72% bovedas to keep the humidity 67-68%. Mine also will dry out bovedas a lot quicker vs my tupperdor's. Check my post here about tupperdor's and emergency storage:

http://www.cigarbid.com/...logo-signify#post4563900

Thanks Clint. Currently I’m using the 74 quart iris. Same as the ziplock as you mentioned I. Your earlier post. I’ve got it crammed with 69 boveda working perfectly. I am likely overthinking. I wanted a newaire myself but simply couldn’t find one. I’ve read that some of these need the drain hole plugged. It may be worth looking at. I feel like it should hold up as good as a cooler. I’ve not yet stocked my audew so I really can’t say how well it will hold moisture. It does look promising so far

I love that idea delta. Thank you for sharing

Just a little update. So I took 6 robusta boxes and drilled 1/2 holes throughout the bottom instead of the wire racks. I figure it’s gonna work similar to the same concept. They fit the shelves pretty well Near perfect honestly. I had them laying around so I improvised
I added one hx 10 humidifier in the bottom center. After things stabilized a bit I was a touch too moist at 72 percent. At the bottom. I then added a small mini fridge fan that gently blows air, it runs on two d batteries. If anyone wants to know the name I’ll check it out.

I added multiple cigars. No idea how many but filled top tray and added two boxes of robustos
Then two boxes with the holes in the bottom loosely filled with some five packs

After that stabilized I was looking pretty good. 65 at the top 72 down low for now.

I added a boveda 320 69 percent directly to the top of the top tray. Will check things again tomorrow.

All grammatical issues are due to makers mark. Figured I’d update for anyone else to tell me how they would adjust or if this helps anyone that will be dope

@jake - keep us updated, I'm interested in the 150ct model but curious how Audew holds up compared to wynther and newair

@king if you have the space the 300 count goes on sale very frequently on the audew website. They were so close in price I’d probably recommend the larger one. Way cheaper than Amazon.
@plowboy. They took my bags away over here in Delaware. That’s why I had to get a cooler. Paper bags now

Bought a old gun cabinet,$20 painted FLEX-SEAL$16 on the inside, let it dry out. Sealed it air tight, put shelves in, use beads (65), looks great,works great,holds at least 400gar's. Put in pen light$5,guage$7,
Weather strip door and better lock$14.
$62total, and it's looks beautiful in the corner.

Now they can set for yrs.

@smooth light. That sounds pretty dope. If I get down that way and you’re still game to have a smoke I’d love to see it

I concur with this. I'm still pissed I didn't go for the 300cnt vs the 150cnt I have now.

How much are the Audew 300's when they go on sale?

@ Clint cigar. I got mine for 220 I think. Somewhere super close to that number shipped to my door. The website never updated my tracking but COVID may have been why. It got here reasonably fast I thought. Maybe two weeks. I’ve heard and seen them with coupon codes and such going as low as 199 shipped

@ cheap prick I’ll check that out in a bit. Thanks for the follow up

Update guys. Unit is on sale today.
Audew website. I checked the code it is working
All caps CGAFCD
209.09 to your door.

As far as the unit itself goes. I may install a thermostat to control the unit
My house is cool this time of year. I work outside so I don’t prefer the house much over 70 degrees. The cooler runs all the time. Just the way it is. I may unplug it for the winter. I’m still happy with the unit. Just want to do some minor mods. I like to tinker on things anyhow. Just an update for anyone interested in buying one

It seems like it’s more of a cooler. It has temperature control but mine seems to run all the time. Or I’m possibly doing wrong. It’s 69 inside my house. But I’m running 63 inside cooler. I turned the temperature up to 69 on cooler

I’ll turn the temperature up higher and see how it goes.

Glad to hear it jsnyder. I could’ve waited and saved around ten lol oh well I’m glad I shared though. I think you’ll like the unit maybe you can add to this thread after you get yours

Jake, I read that a lot of people have seen this occur. When I was brewing beer, I used an Inkbird temperature controller to regulate the temp in a chest freezer. It would keep it +-2 degrees from where I had it set. You might want to consider using one of those. The only downside is that it is a power on/off controller, so if it's not running to cool, it won't give the humidor power. This means your display and light won't work. From what I read, most people just unplug it during winter anyway and it seems to do alright, although you're still faced with the display/light issue.

@jsnyder yeah the power light being off wouldn’t bother me In the least. The ink bird may be an option. As of now. Things are working fine I’ll likely unplug it this winter. I don’t need them cooler than the house is. It still looks fairly nice sitting there. The water container they supply with the unit works pretty well to season things. I think I should have went longer with the seasoning but things have basically stabilized now.
I turned my thermostat up to 74 on the front and inside is in the low 60s now. I’m more than comfortable with that. I’m using one 69 percent boveda 320 gram on top shelf. One hx 10 beads on the bottom. It’s incredibly dry here so I’m trying to supplement. The beads are a bit too much so I’ll keep fiddling with things. Probably two large bovedas would be plenty. The light on the top doesn’t do much once you load the unit. There could have been more. It doesn’t really bother me

I received my Audew on Saturday. Admired it for a few minutes and then opened it up and threw a 320g and 4 60g 84% Bovedas in there. It’s been at a steady 64 degrees, about 3 degrees cooler than my other humidors read, and has slowly worked its way up to 80. Patiently waiting another week before I transition to 69% bovedas. It can’t come soon enough.

What other hobbies are you focusing on MACS? And damn, I was hoping that I would start living by the limitation. I'm not sure why I would think that though, I currently have two emergency ziplocks going waiting for this humidor to be ready. Oh well, what can ya do. Do you still use your cabinet even with the lower capacity?

This is a true statement.

Depends on how cold it is outside.