The Remington Lite Electric Cabinet Humidor | 2,000 Cigars

Looks great. Seal is ok

What a disappointment! If you bought this thing cancel the order!! Otherwise move on...dont waste your money and add to your frustration and stress . This product is not designed by engineers. Here are the facts. (1) After 2 months of ownership, I've had to restart this thing a dozen times because control is so erratic that it over humidifies and then overcools to the point where cigars are at 45F and humidity is above 75% depending on where it is measured. It just keeps cycling, endlessly. (2) there is easily a 10% difference in humidity from top to bottom--temperature is generally OK top to bottom (at around 60-70F) unless it is super cold and the cold air sinks. I have a xicar on every shelf and I shuffle them to make sure they aren't flaky too--The humidor is horrible at establishing an equilibrium. (3) there seems to be no actual recirculation fans moving air around. There are fans but they only turn on to humidify -- and there is a humming somewhere in the back that suggests something blowing but hardly perceptible. (3) The humidity control is some tiny little PCB embedded in the wall on the middle shelf--horrible location--represents nothing fairly and is super slow to adjust either manually (when I'm trying to calibrate) or from a detection point of view - its just garbage. (4) The manual looks to be a google translation from God knows what language. Nothing useful--I tried everything it suggested to no avail. (5) No real direction on how much distilled water to add. The manual says add water--so you add a reasonable amount (100ml) -- about 1/8 inch at bottom of fan tray. Customer support says remove the water and add just a little bit--what does that mean ??--why is there too much water when it shouldn't matter as long as the controller is acting in a controlled way? I cannot be squirting water in (with the hand-dandy included squirt bottle) manually everytime I see humidity dropping --its stupid and defeats the purpose of having automatic control. (6) Even with customer support--I doubt anything they recommended is really going help--its a minor change from what's already in the manual--and removing water from the humidifier tray will certainly lower humidity--but it wont help with running the machine automatically like it is supposed to do. (7) I would return this thing if I could --even the prospect of getting $3000 refund its not worth shipping it back--it'll cost a fortune. . My best bet is to turn it all off and put Boveda packs in it and allow my home aircon to keep it at a good temp...maybe add some fans inside to actual recirculate air (no provision for power so need to find a way to do that). I'm really disappointed--I waited a year for this thing-planned on moving my primo cigars into it and now I'm stuck with an upright coffin--just dead weight in my livingroom. What a piece of junk and a waste of my time anticipating that I'll finally have something nice.

The Humidor arrived in great condition but the shipper damaged the box it was shipped in and took an extra week or two to deliver it. I am happy with my purchase but at this price point the quality of shipping is really lacking.

My Remington lite was delivered in perfect condition without any issues. I had major humidity fluctuations using distilled water in the built in humidifiers reservoir. I later mounted a 120 mm usb blower fan on the lower back wall of the humidor and started using humidity beads instead of water. I no longer have issues with humidity fluctuations and have very minimal humidity deviation from the top to bottom of the humidor! I love it and would not hesitate to purchase another. I also had to re calibrate the units built in hygrometer. This was a very simple task after reading the supplied instructions. E Bar was very easy to deal with as well.