Best Electric Humidification for desk top humidor

I have a 150 cigar desk top. I have had many problems keeping it at the desired humidification. I am plunging into the world of Electricity. In your opinion, what do you think is the best option for my desk top Humidor?????

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  • I have been looking at the Humi-Care EH (not sure if its to much for the size of the humidor)

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,918 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Your problem appears to be with a leaky humidor, get a tupperdore, crate, or cooler with Bovedas or find and season a better humidor.

    It's crazy to consider an electric humidifier for a humidor that small.

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  • If you have a few minutes please take me through the steps. What humidifier would you use on going? What Hygrometer do you like? Why not just get a Humi-Care Turbo and call it a day ?

    Thank you in advance for your help :-)

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,237 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why not just get a Humi-Care Turbo and call it a day ?

    Why not just accept the answer given; get a Tupperdore, crate, or cooler with Bovedas, or find and season a better humidor?

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  • Rdp77
    Rdp77 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I see you tagged “glass”. Does that mean you’re using a glass humidor???

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  • rsherman24
    rsherman24 Posts: 7,772 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JMackShrewsburyMA said:
    If you have a few minutes please take me through the steps. What humidifier would you use on going? What Hygrometer do you like? **Why not just get a Humi-Care Turbo and call it a day ?
    **
    Thank you in advance for your help :-)

    If you already know the answer you are looking to hear, why ask the question?

  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,918 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm a simple guy, I get something that won't leak and use Bovedas. I have but don't use hygrometers because there's no real need as long as you occasionally check your Boveda packs.

    I suppose if you're really sold on that glass lid humidor that the humidifer might work, you'll have to keep an eye on the water tank and deal with a ribbon cable for power snaked out of your humidor. I'm thinking that they sell replacement ribbon cables for a reason, they'll wear out eventually.

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,781 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A nice wooden humidor looks better than a 300 cigar Tupperware, so there's that....

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,118 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JMackShrewsburyMA said:
    If you have a few minutes please take me through the steps. What humidifier would you use on going? What Hygrometer do you like? Why not just get a Humi-Care Turbo and call it a day ?

    Thank you in advance for your help :-)

    @JMackShrewsburyMA .... fellow MassHole. I'm on the North Shore

  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,774 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm on the south shore. Bovedas and an airtight container. For a hygrometer, zederkoff is pretty good, and affordable.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,781 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cape Cod here, don't need a humidifier most of the year.

  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 20,726 ✭✭✭✭✭

    North shore, South shore, the cape....lots of peeps from taxachusettes on this forum. I'm from NNFMA myself.

    EFF these guys. Stick with your wood box if that's what you like.

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    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 20,726 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited September 2024

    I have something similar to that unit you're looking at. It works pretty good on a sorta leaky wood box.

    You can also make one for a quarter of the price with a computer fan, a plastic box, and a humidistat.

    (and some beads)

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    @ScotchnSmoke still sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • dirtdude
    dirtdude Posts: 6,293 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks for the reminder to water the beads in my leaky wood humidor.

    A little dirt never hurt
  • Not sure if this would fit the desktop bill but I found this on fb the other day... Looks fairly small. Don't ask me what its called though! Maybe someone here will recognize it

  • memento_mori
    memento_mori Posts: 5,707 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @robertwallace684 its affectionately called a ‘winador’. Looks to be the small version from Whynter?? They work exceptionally well with some Bovedas. No power needed.

    Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.

  • Robear
    Robear Posts: 100 ✭✭✭

    If you have a wynter. Keep an eye on it. Mine was not working properly. My fan was just shooting the condensation out. Ruining the cigar in the back and cause mold.

  • memento_mori
    memento_mori Posts: 5,707 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Lower the temperature in the house or more specifically, the area where the whynter is located. It should not be running long enough to sweat the coil.

    Regarding a cigar, the pipe and the open road, go forward without hurry, learn the essence of things through frequent experiences, taking advantage of every occasion.

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,963 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Funny how one's mind assigns certain images to phrasing. When I hear "Desktop Humidor" I see a small humidor that holds maybe 20 cigars. Why on earth would I need electronic devices for that when a simple Boveda pack will do the trick for 6 months at a time? I guess some people have bigger desks than I imagine as well.

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  • Robear
    Robear Posts: 100 ✭✭✭

    @OutdoorsSmoke_21191 I don't know how to to reply to a message.
    This happen within 5 minutes of plugging it in. I was testing it to see what was the problem.
    As in where it was. It was in my living room. We don't turn on the a/c unless someone out there.
    But I got this unit so I don't have to worry about outside temperature.
    So I don't know

    On another note
    Anyone looking for a self humidifier
    electronic humidor hit me up

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,963 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Boveda

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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,963 ✭✭✭✭✭

    More...boveda

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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,963 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Bovedas sold here @Cigar.com.

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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,963 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Flag me down a pack of Bovedas

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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,963 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Flag thissss........

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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,963 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 7

    😂

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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,963 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,963 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Boveda

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  • d_blades
    d_blades Posts: 4,612 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Big Bovedas with holders

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