Don't plug it in. Easy as that!

Not sure that will be an option (using a compressor model)... This might not work for me at all, I live in South Florida. We keep our house between 71 (night) and 76 (day), so temp/RH/BUGS are a concern for me. I had a breakout in my desktop a while back because I was a bad cigar owner, don't want to ever see those things again...

I read through the other post, but if there was something in there about using a compressor model I must have missed it.

I am hoping that I can keep the temp and RH swings tighter than that.

Ok, observations after 12 hours. Tried playing with temp control last night some, but it was all over the place (didn't help that I was impatient). Left unit off over night with a tupperware and sponge soaked in distilled water. Temp this morning was 75.1 and RH was 99%. Turned the unit on with the temp at the first setting this morning. I can hear it running over there, but resisting the urge to check it out at least until the coffee maker is done... Interested to see what temp the first setting settles on and where the RH will level out at this morning, then see what swings I will have when the unit cycles.

Depends on how that swings and how long it stays at 76.

I am in South Carolina.

used to keep a coolidor in back of a 1/2 basement walkin closet, the coolest place in the house - in summer.

In winter, would move it up on a landing where easier to get to, and get cigars and check temp, humidity, etc.

Worked well for years, till I got lazy one year and didn't take it down in the summertime.

OOPs, bugs - lost it all.

I doubt it was over 76 degrees on the landing where it stayed.

We had a brutal summer that year, and if you are in and out of the house multiple times - while the A/C is capable of pulling it down to 72, going from 72 to 97 or 98 is somewhat of a shock to your system so we had the air higher that summer but we really never set it higher than 76.

Don't recall specifically, and that was several years ago.

But, I do recall being surprised. Thankfully, I didn't have a bunch of nice stuff like I do at the moment.

Bottom line, use 70 degrees as your guideline to be safe.

My wineador usually sits on 68.

I just leave my wineador on it's highest setting of 65 degrees and that usually is 68/69 calibrated degrees, inside.

Heh, heh.

Leave the t-stat at 68 in winter and the wineador doesn't come on much. Leave the t-stat 74/75 in summer, but it and while it comes on more often doesn't seem to come on much unless it's brutal outside.

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Well, it holds humidity just fine. With the amount of distilled H2O in there is should be at 99% RH when not cycling and it does, and returns to that relatively quickly after cycling. The problem now is the sensitivity of the thermostat. It's just not that sensitive. Now watching it to see how much is needs to cycle to stay at between 65 - 72 degrees. With it unplugged it's about 75.5.