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Advice about increasing humidity - 11/21/2008 10:54:45 PM

geppetto

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As a relatively new wine enthusiast, I made the mistake of purchasing a dual zone wine cellar from Cosco. I have managed to get about half of the cellar to between 55 and 58 degrees (I monitor the temperature on each shelf). I use the other half (cooler bottom half) for wines that are relatively close to their drinking windows.

At this point, my bigger concern has to do with humidity. I also monitor the humidy on each shelf and have found that my colder shelves are running about 65 percent, but as I move up to the 55 and above shelves, the humidity drops to 50 percent.

I have tried to boost the humidity by adding a large tray of water on the bottom shelf. That had no impact on the humidity any where in the cooler. Then I added smaller cups of water to each self. Still no impact on the humidity. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can boost the humidity???

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RE: Advice about increasing humidity - 11/22/2008 12:54:23 AM

Colonel Lawrence

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What makes you think you really need higher humidity?
http://www.thewinedoctor.com/advisory/buystoremakingcellar.shtml
L.

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RE: Advice about increasing humidity - 11/22/2008 5:26:32 AM

waterdr

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What you are seeing is basic physical science. If you have air at 45 degrees and 65 percent relative humidity and then warm up that same air to 55, the relative humidity will be lower, yet there is the same mass of water (i.e humidity) in the air. This is why on a hot summer day you can have a realtive humidity of 60% at the peak of the day's heat and as the air cools over night the RH goes up until the point that the moisture drops out, causing fog or dew on colder surfaces.

The humidity controls in your cooler will be dictated by the coldest part of the unit.

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