I've only had my humidor a couple weeks. I have one of those "pucks" with 65% RH beads inside and my humidity stays between 67-68% so either the labeling of the beads is only a rough estimate of what RH you get or it will take awhile for the RH to drop. Either way I can live with 68%, it doesn't seem too bad and there is not much I can do about it. The humidity where I live is 47% so at least I can let me cigars sit a bit before smoking them.