If your humidor were to ever stop working

[svmiiller]

I have a Yohtron 448 L cabinet humidor and I know some of you all have similar style units. The question I have is, what is everyone's emergency game plan if it were to ever stop working? Does anyone know of service for these Chinese made and Chinese imported units? 

[MadridPuros]

If it was an emergency, go get an extra-large tupperdor and put some boveda packs in. 

[Ford2112]

Stick everything in either Tupperdors or a Yeti cooler. 

[NYGuido]

1 hour ago, Ford2112 said:

Stick everything in either Tupperdors or a Yeti cooler. 

Yep. I’d order a ton of 320g Bovedas and stick everything in a few coolers. Cigars aren’t as fragile as we sometimes think they are; get them in a big cooler with Boveda in a few days, and you’re fine in the long run. 

[svmiiller]

I totally agree with the Tupperdor idea and it's definitely on back up. So far no one has made a comment on the second question which was how would you all go about getting the humidor repaired. I look at it like buying a quality refrigerator. These days I don't expect to see it last more than 10 or 15 years. And we all are going for aging. 

Just hoping someone has input on repairs.

[Socrates]

I have a Raching MON2800A which I bought a year ago. I kept my older (but still working) NewAir 1500 humidor and it sits unplugged and empty in storage. If the Raching fails I will just fire up the Newair and stuff all my boxes (or as many as I can fit temporarily in that unit).

[Chitmo]

On 2/16/2026 at 1:52 PM, svmiiller said:

I have a Yohtron 448 L cabinet humidor and I know some of you all have similar style units. The question I have is, what is everyone's emergency game plan if it were to ever stop working? Does anyone know of service for these Chinese made and Chinese imported units? 

I avoided electronic humidors because I didn’t have an answer to that question myself.

[JDoughty]

1 hour ago, Chitmo said:

I avoided electronic humidors because I didn’t have an answer to that question myself.

Same. I was looking at a tower sized Raching or KingChii, then considered the difficulty of having it serviced or sent back for warranty repairs once situated. Bought a new full sized non electric tower and am running Humi-Care Pro + Inkbird monitoring units. Anything goes wrong with the electronics, they weigh sub 3 lbs rather than 200 lbs if I need to send them anywhere for repairs. I have a smallish electric unit for my rare/historical stuff that is old and fragile, if that ever gives me problems I'll just buy another and keep the fragile stuff on a well monitored shelf in the regular tower until it arrives. It is pretty hard for stuff to go wrong on what is basically a piece of furniture. Though mine did show up missing shelf support holes down the entire right side and it's been no fun going back and forth about what they want me to do about it that won't void the warranty. I could take a drill to it myself, but I'm holding off on that until I hear back from the company. 

The main advantage to the electronic units is temperature control. If the unit will be indoors in a temperature controlled room, especially not against an outside wall, IMO the utility of tighter temperature control independent from your HVAC does not outweigh the pain in the ass factor of trying to get an uncommon appliance serviced in your home or worse, trying to ship it or move it to where it can be serviced. 

[Chitmo]

10 hours ago, JDoughty said:

Same. I was looking at a tower sized Raching or KingChii, then considered the difficulty of having it serviced or sent back for warranty repairs once situated. Bought a new full sized non electric tower and am running Humi-Care Pro + Inkbird monitoring units. Anything goes wrong with the electronics, they weigh sub 3 lbs rather than 200 lbs if I need to send them anywhere for repairs. I have a smallish electric unit for my rare/historical stuff that is old and fragile, if that ever gives me problems I'll just buy another and keep the fragile stuff on a well monitored shelf in the regular tower until it arrives. It is pretty hard for stuff to go wrong on what is basically a piece of furniture. Though mine did show up missing shelf support holes down the entire right side and it's been no fun going back and forth about what they want me to do about it that won't void the warranty. I could take a drill to it myself, but I'm holding off on that until I hear back from the company. 

The main advantage to the electronic units is temperature control. If the unit will be indoors in a temperature controlled room, especially not against an outside wall, IMO the utility of tighter temperature control independent from your HVAC does not outweigh the pain in the ass factor of trying to get an uncommon appliance serviced in your home or worse, trying to ship it or move it to where it can be serviced. 

I have a 20+ year old aristocrat I lucked into on local classifieds 5-6 years go. I put a modern 'set and forget' in there and it works like a charm. 

[zacca]

On 2/19/2026 at 3:54 AM, svmiiller said:

I totally agree with the Tupperdor idea and it's definitely on back up. So far no one has made a comment on the second question which was how would you all go about getting the humidor repaired. I look at it like buying a quality refrigerator. These days I don't expect to see it last more than 10 or 15 years. And we all are going for aging. 

Just hoping someone has input on repairs.

So technically the humidor should have a good seal, right? Assuming you’re in a room temperature area (e.g. not in a tropical climate or have the tower against an exterior wall), as a temporary measure I’d throw a bunch of large Boveda packs directly into the tower. Meanwhile I’d be figuring out a game plan with the manufacturer - I would think even worst case scenario with a total failure, it should be a somewhat standard swap out of parts. 
 

if I’m in an area where temp isn’t controlled, then they’re going into tupperdors in the basement.