Anth87 Posted July 20, 2015 Posted July 20, 2015 Hi all, I REALLY want one of these, to be honest really not that way inclined with building / ordering / tinkering (I'm a Chartered Accountant lol) Does anybody know where a REALLY easy to make one can be found? (I've searched the guides on this forum, not my cup of tea) OR - Anybody wana make a bit of cash l o l ? AC
Anth87 Posted July 21, 2015 Author Posted July 21, 2015 Any in Australia? Shipping would be killer :/
NCPANTHERZFAN Posted July 21, 2015 Posted July 21, 2015 Google Whytner. I'm sure they should have some closer to you.
jimsta10 Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 The issues living in Oz. We dont have all the perks that our mates over the US have (besides Cubans). I have had success with Dome wine fridges, rigged with a temperature controller system + CPU fan installed manually. i have one running for 4 months and one running for 1 week...stacked on top of each other.
Dimmers Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 3 easy steps : 1. buy a thermo wine fridge like this (I have the model below its great): http://www.deluxeproducts.com.au/CyberCool-DP32C-Dual-Zone-Thermoelectric-Wine-Cooler---32-Bottle-Dynamic 2.,buy 2.5 pounds of beads such as in link below (again I have these HCM beads, they are great): http://www.cigarbeads.com/ 3. source a few cheap digital hygrometers (ie from ebay or HCM link above). Throw the beads/hygrometers in the fridge, set temp to 18C, store in a cooler area of your house. Rock solid humidity. Fire and forget. 1
Havanaaddict Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 If you are just looking for a Wine Fridge here are a few places!!! Try The Good Guys. Vintec is Australia's leading supplier of wine cabinets.
Jeremy Festa Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 3 easy steps : 1. buy a thermo wine fridge like this (I have the model below its great): http://www.deluxeproducts.com.au/CyberCool-DP32C-Dual-Zone-Thermoelectric-Wine-Cooler---32-Bottle-Dynamic 2.,buy 2.5 pounds of beads such as in link below (again I have these HCM beads, they are great): http://www.cigarbeads.com/ 3. source a few cheap digital hygrometers (ie from ebay or HCM link above). Throw the beads/hygrometers in the fridge, set temp to 18C, store in a cooler area of your house. Rock solid humidity. Fire and forget. I second this. I do exactly this also. Plus my fridge has this wicked black reflective glass on it. And I have a tower humidor that just fits inside it. So it's like boxes within drawers within a box within box. Sent from my iPhone 1
jimsta10 Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 3 easy steps : 1. buy a thermo wine fridge like this (I have the model below its great): http://www.deluxeproducts.com.au/CyberCool-DP32C-Dual-Zone-Thermoelectric-Wine-Cooler---32-Bottle-Dynamic 2.,buy 2.5 pounds of beads such as in link below (again I have these HCM beads, they are great): http://www.cigarbeads.com/ 3. source a few cheap digital hygrometers (ie from ebay or HCM link above). Throw the beads/hygrometers in the fridge, set temp to 18C, store in a cooler area of your house. Rock solid humidity. Fire and forget. Hey mate, Does the digital temp reset itself (to default) when the unit is powered off/on?
Dimmers Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 Hey mate, Does the digital temp reset itself (to default) when the unit is powered off/on? yup resets to 12C if there is a power outage (which is one annoying aspect of the Cybercool). But just needs a quick check of the bezel temp display every day or so if concerned. And its a thermo, so its always operates within +/- 10C of your room temp anyway. 1
jimsta10 Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 yup resets to 12C if there is a power outage (which is one annoying aspect of the Cybercool). But just needs a quick check of the bezel temp display every day or so if concerned. And its a thermo, so its always operates within +/- 10C of your room temp anyway. Cheers. My are two second hand Dome thermo cooler with manual controls. Downside to these things is that the temp is quiet hard to manage, that's why installed a digital controller in each. Nothing is bullet proof I guess.
Anth87 Posted July 22, 2015 Author Posted July 22, 2015 Thanks for all the input - what about the shelves? Do you not need cedar shelves?
Dimmers Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 Thanks for all the input - what about the shelves? Do you not need cedar shelves? Not necessary, only if you want to. But if you end up getting the cybercool model I linked to above, I can give you shelf dimensions + name of a chap who I had make my shelves (all credit to Clive (Miner) who helped me with sourcing shelves )
Fuzz Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 Thanks for all the input - what about the shelves? Do you not need cedar shelves? Shelves take up valuable box space. Spend enough time here and you will appreciate all the hours playing Tetris when you were younger.
muzz Posted July 22, 2015 Posted July 22, 2015 3 easy steps : 1. buy a thermo wine fridge like this (I have the model below its great): http://www.deluxeproducts.com.au/CyberCool-DP32C-Dual-Zone-Thermoelectric-Wine-Cooler---32-Bottle-Dynamic 2.,buy 2.5 pounds of beads such as in link below (again I have these HCM beads, they are great): http://www.cigarbeads.com/ 3. source a few cheap digital hygrometers (ie from ebay or HCM link above). Throw the beads/hygrometers in the fridge, set temp to 18C, store in a cooler area of your house. Rock solid humidity. Fire and forget. This is the one I hav and have been running for a few months...well, not even running as I havn't needed to turn it on to cool yet and it has sat arround 17 degrees. I have 2lb of beeds in it and so far have a rock solid humidity. Mine also came with cedar shelves as I bought it second hand from Miner who had posted the data logger results in another thread, "you can go a bit crazy". Very happy so far but ran out of room. I have a second compressor fridge, also off at the moment. I have tupperware containers with bolveda packs inside to maintain rH.
Deodato Posted August 5, 2015 Posted August 5, 2015 I bought a Eurocave humidor here in Melbourne and have been really happy. It heats as well as cools and I had no problems maintaining temperature and humidity in the hot Melbourne summer or cool winter. In both cases I went away for a few weeks and so the house heating / air-con were switched off. No getting away from the fact that it is expensive but I have been really happy with the quality and set-and-forget controls. http://www.eurocave.com.au/wine-cabinets/cigar-humidor/
Anth87 Posted August 6, 2015 Author Posted August 6, 2015 Muzz - thinking I'm going to bite the bullet and do as per your advice - thanks question - how many boxes does it hold and do u need cedar shelves or just remove exisiting ones? I'm in QLD and worried about temperature
Anth87 Posted August 6, 2015 Author Posted August 6, 2015 Ok so wineador ordered - goddamn my beloved hobby has cost way too much this month ? how many 69rh bovers packs do you think I'll need for 5 boxes? Thanks
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