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Expert: - 1/12/2010


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Sir, I have a large Aristocrat  humidor that is insulated and conditioned. I have filled it with cigars in the last 6 months. Humidity is 70%  and temp. is around 71 deg. Location of humidor this winter has it with surrounding air temp. at64 to 66 degrees. My cooler continues to run to keep temp stable at 70 . Are the cigars giving off heat as they mature or is something else going on. Thank you for your knowledge and time, Thomas Fisher

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I have never seen the cigars aging affect the temperature that much.

First, is the Digital hygrometer reading correctly?
But in a well sealed cabinet humidor the electric humidity control motor is warming the cabinet slightly.  

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Mike  

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Retailer of cigars and acc. since 1979. Cigars - I've smoked most including Cubans. Humidors- Testing humidors all the time. Selling humidors for 30 years. Pipes - I imported Briar and Meerschaum also repaired them in the 1980's. Lighters- Zippo distributor 30 years, expert in repair of old and new lighters although I haven't repaired an antique lighter in 15 years. Repaired thousands of butane lighters.

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30 years importing and selling retail and wholesale Pipes lighters,cigars and humidors. Designed and developed the only state of the art refirgerated mobile cigar humidor and the largest mobile cigar store in the USA. Repaired 50,000 pipes and lighters in the last 30 years. BR>
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2 years Fullerton jr college

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