Low Humidity?
Low Humidity?
Recently I purchased a Transtherm wine cabinet (model name-loft) and have noticed that I have been getting very low humidity readings. At times the readings have been as low as 25% and only as high as 58%. As the loft model does not have its own humidity gauge I have been using a temp/hygrometre that I was using in a small cellar I had. I have recorded 5 days of readings on a data logger that Transtherm sent down to me in case my gauge is incorrect but I will not know the readings for a couple of weeks as the fellow I am dealing with is on holidays. I am curious if anyone else has had similar problems. Thanks
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Anonymous
Got exactly the same problem. I have monitored humidity readings for some time and hardly get above 50-60%, usually around 30%. The cabinet is installed in my living room, so no extreme environment could be blamed for. I have just reported the issue to Transtherm's hot line (also used your post to back-up my claim), awaiting the answer still. Have you possibly found out anything on the subject? Any way to get humidity right? Or Transthem means Loft to be a poor-man's version of their proper quality line? BR Zib
No, still the same. I received the information back from the data logger which showed the humidity never over 60% and as low as 30% which seems to be when the motor is running. Was told that this is normal. As now I have some super premium bottles stored I am quite concernd. I have tried putting a small amount of water in a dish placed in the bottom of the unit but no real difference. Seems thats the way they are. Interested to hear your latest comment.
Wine cabinets
If you want reliability and guaranteed true readings Liebherr is your best bet - German dependability, huge range. I got mine from Winnings in Sydney. They are at Andico oz-wide. Really valuable wines deserve the best protection, Liebherr has the BMW Porsche Mercedes Kraut reliability, design and quality. Search engine Liebherr for the mega range. Eurocave is next best.
Ditch your cheap copy on ebay and buy a decent brand with great support.
Ditch your cheap copy on ebay and buy a decent brand with great support.
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Cloudy wrote:If you want reliability and guaranteed true readings Liebherr is your best bet - German dependability, huge range. I got mine from Winnings in Sydney. They are at Andico oz-wide. Really valuable wines deserve the best protection, Liebherr has the BMW Porsche Mercedes Kraut reliability, design and quality. Search engine Liebherr for the mega range. Eurocave is next best.
Ditch your cheap copy on ebay and buy a decent brand with great support.
I smell a scam somewhere and a very cheap advertisement here.
Alan - this is not scam.
As owner of two Liebherr 196 Bottle (single temp.) cabinets I can support Cloudy's view of the Liebherr units and the service they provide. I had a minor problem with the first unit and they sent a service person over two days later to sort it out; the fluro didn't work properly. Acquaintance of mine bought two of those units at the same time and he is very happy with them as well. Reason for buying Liebherr -v- Eurocave = $1,300 each unit.
Humidity is in the 70% (+) range most of the time, varied between 65 - 80% over the last few months since I began monitoring; 72 right now. Both units are full, temp set at 13 but the temp can vary by a touch over 1 degree between the top and bottom of the units. All up, temp varied from 13.1 to 14.2 degrees. I am more interested in the temp than humidity. Units are located centrally, no abutting external walls with airconditioning running at 24 during the day.
I started with the K-Mart 34 bottle Minstrel units and encountered the same problem with humidity being consistently around 30%. Even after adding a tray of water I couldn't get the humidity above 50%.
As an aside, there are about 100 bottles in screw caps - not a single problem with them to date. And my desk just got knocked three times.
As owner of two Liebherr 196 Bottle (single temp.) cabinets I can support Cloudy's view of the Liebherr units and the service they provide. I had a minor problem with the first unit and they sent a service person over two days later to sort it out; the fluro didn't work properly. Acquaintance of mine bought two of those units at the same time and he is very happy with them as well. Reason for buying Liebherr -v- Eurocave = $1,300 each unit.
Humidity is in the 70% (+) range most of the time, varied between 65 - 80% over the last few months since I began monitoring; 72 right now. Both units are full, temp set at 13 but the temp can vary by a touch over 1 degree between the top and bottom of the units. All up, temp varied from 13.1 to 14.2 degrees. I am more interested in the temp than humidity. Units are located centrally, no abutting external walls with airconditioning running at 24 during the day.
I started with the K-Mart 34 bottle Minstrel units and encountered the same problem with humidity being consistently around 30%. Even after adding a tray of water I couldn't get the humidity above 50%.
As an aside, there are about 100 bottles in screw caps - not a single problem with them to date. And my desk just got knocked three times.