Haha well sorry that previous post was about worthless with the spelling errors. I actually meant it was at 75%. I wasn't surprised at this because the temp in my room is around 88 degrees (no ac). I will get beads in the future b/c this is annoying as crap. the cigars i had were kept at 68% on the dot in a smaller cigar box. If it helps, i took the sponge out of the humi and this also caused it to jump super high. i have some extra spanish cedar planks in the humi for help. I also have to humidification options, the pg solution foam, or the pg crystals in a drymistat tube. I assume they are both the same, but maybe the crystals work both ways like the beads? Anyways i appreciate your help guys.