Anyone ever gut a refrigerator and put a dehumidifier in it and use it to dry and cure buds. I feel like this would work

it would tear up your trichomes unless you really designed it well. see all the time and effort and engineering and choices by cannatrol and vcure. you are stuck in a little segment of homegrower doohickeys and wumbo jombos. cannatrol does retrofits and custom fabs for any size facility lol. their home unit is a gimmick as a 'show mad love' to the community and let them access what the top ~10% of cultivators have switched to commercially. for all the hate they get for their price, they could flip 1000 units tomorrow and still have it be a dwarf of a revenue stream on the Q compared to just consulting much less retrofits or custom fabs.... @00110001001001111O , margins dont work that way. i think you meant a different word. and if you did,and I doubt the cannatrol costs less than ten bucks to make. if you wanna throw shade on someone getting theirs in the industry, i dont know how you could possibly come for someone more homegrown, organic, and for the people. the patents are available to google and you can copy whatever you want at your house. i did it before buying, and im glad i didnt talk nonsense about it before grasping how it functioned. there is certainly a reason that no matter what anyone on here wants, cannatrol is now a noun in their common vernacular and they should understand why it redefined the post harvest industry and how. future is now. I would also strongly point out for every response on here about 'show me the studies' when the topic is clearly something without evidence, here is your topic with reproduced academic and industry papers... cannatrol has double digit increase in trichome integrity, from their patent (not a wine fridge or somebody wouldve already had it, right...right...) and therefore a commensurate increase in secondaries in finished product. they have this by manual counting of gridded off slides and a novel mass spec method...

Hey... Saw something like that on YouTube. You might want to try a search there.

Probably suck all the terpenes from the buds. You need air exchange, not just low humidity. I would advise against doing so.

Refrigerators already naturally remove moisture as a side effect of cooling; that's how they work. The problem is making it stop once they reach perfect RH%. Cutting power to control humidity creates operational problems, don't want to mess with compressors, so make sure there is a time delay before on/off's. Much easier just using the cripser drawers with an RH metre in it, open them to let moisture escape (low humidity) or close them to trap it (high humidity). Slide to find the perfect %, bingo.

just light proof the room and control climate. the tent or fridgerator isn't providing anything useful other than something to hang buds from. The gas exchange and climate control of a small volume of space with a lung room, when working properly, will result in same evaporation rate - maybe even faster off surface if there's a constant breeze vs enough less direct circulation in a room to even out rh. keep it simple. if you wanna go fancy, buy a wine cooler that doesn't use a compressor and with a thermostat that reaches the proper temperature... then some large 2-way boveda packs relative to the amount you can stuff in there. Got yourself a ~500 USD cannitrol, or whatever those things are called. Or, buy a cannitrol with a 10,000% margin, lol.

I think the consensus on dehumidifiers in any closed environment with the buds is not advised. Usually dehumidifiers are used in a “lung room” essentially the room outside of your drying environment eg. a tent. I have a dehumidifier outside the tent at all times the tent then sucks in the dry air. If you could use a PC fan for intake and exhaust. Probably just better to bite the bullet on a separate small drying tent 👍