NewAir 250-Count Electric Cigar Humidor Wine Cooler - Stainless Steel with Spanish Cedar Shelves, Thermoelectric Cooling & Digital Temperature Control - Perfect for Home Bars, Man Caves & Cigar Collections

overall: It's great and I am extremely happy with the purchase. I've only had this for about a week now and it works like a champ. My main driver for purchasing this was to have something that keeps a consistent humidity without boveda packs. So far its rock solid on that front. Secondly it was for space and it doesnt disappoint there either. It has a nice cedar scent to it and looks/feels like a quality machine(not cheap.)Assembly:There wasn't much to assemble aside from attaching the door handle and the front grill at the bottom. Attaching the door handle was pretty simple though I somehow managed to screw it up. you peel back the gasket seal, feed the bolts in from the back and attach the door handle.It came with white plastic spacers in the hardware bag but I never saw a step explaining what to do with them. I assumed you put them over the bolt and then tightened the bolt and spacer into the door handle from the back side of the door. Well I did that but I must have over-tightened because the screws were fully seated and the handle was very loose. I happened to have some M4 nuts from another project and they threaded on perfectly to the provided bolts. I use these to MacGyver it by putting two m4 nuts on each door bolt which acted like additional spacers. These had the added benefit that I could lock them in to place any where on the bolt by tightening the nuts against each other. I tightened it all down being careful to not overtighten to where it might break anything and the loose door handle problem was fixed.Noise: It's similar to a small fridge in that it cycles on and off regularly to keep conditions perfect inside. Expect it to make some noise. It's not like a commercial refrigerator but maybe like a little dorm fridge as far as the compressor goes. It also has a little water pump in it that seems like its constantly doing its thing. I had it in the bedroom (mainly since its the room with the least outdoor light) and it was annoying listening to the pump at night. The compressor wasn't too bad but that pump was too much for me . I ended up moving the humidor to a different area of the bedroom and its better. I also have a fan for white noise.The LEDs for temp/humidity are fairly bright for a bedroom at night so I plan to cover them with cutouts of red colored gel light filter film soon. That should help, without completely blocking the LEDs. You need to see them to see current temp/humidity and to set temp/humidity.Features of note:Humidity: set by a button inside at the top (you can kind of see in the humidor picture). It constantly adjusting the humidity in a very tight range(see other picture of the graph from a govee sensor) I started off high set at 72(the red line) to give it a boost of humidity while seasoning and then stocking it. Then slowly turned it down to 69, then 68, then finally settling at 67%.Temp: Also keeps it very close to the set point with tight variance( see other image)I've had that set at 65 degrees and it stays between 64.8 and 65.7. SolidSpace: This thing is very spacious, no complaints at all. Filling it is going to be funOther stuff:The LED lights are a nice touch but I wish they'd stay on just a tad longer. I had to leave the door open to get a picture of them because they'd shut off before the camera could get a shot, if that gives an idea of how short the delay is.Shelves are on ball bearing sliders, what you would see in a piece of furniture and easily slide in and outFilling the water reservoir is tricky (maybe a complaint.) There is a reservoir inside on the bottom. The max fill indicator is impossible to see unless you either take the bottom shelf out (it can be done just like the ball bearing sliders in most furniture drawers, these have a little lock release tab) or you extend both the bottom and the second from the bottom shelf out all the way, then you can see the max fill indicator.In the first week, while migrating cigars from a whyneter Humidor and while also adding newly purchased cigars, I have had to refill the reservoir once. Technically it was only half way down so I didn't "need to," but I did so anyhow since I had the reservoir exposed to check it. I use a measuring 1 cup Pyrex measuring cup to add distilled water, mainly since it has a nice pour spout, as to not spill water all over.. The need to refill will probably slow down once things are stable and I stop adding cigars.If you decide to get one of these remember don't use tap water, use distilled.