If you do it right, the salt test is dead accurate. The beads should be really close. Hygrometers can be as right or as wrong as any other piece of digital junk. Be guided by the laws of physics, and do not trust the machines - your smokes are too important, too valuable, to be lax on this one. 13% IS a lot, but I have seen almost as much before. And the analog ones can be worse!
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