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Hey Mrai,
First off, check out this post on relative humidity, it's pretty helpful and explains why the RH percentage is not always the value to go off of. http://www.cigarbid.com/...-and-Cigars#post4575097

Second, have you properly seasoned your humidor? I have had issues with this in the past and I have found that purchasing the 84% Boveda packs, 1 for each 25 cigar capacity of the humidor, works really well. Just set them inside the humidor, close it, and no matter how much you want to check it, leave it closed for two weeks.

Third, invest in a digital hygrometer that can be calibrated. for 20 bucks you can pick up a digital hygrometer and a Boveda calibration kit. This is key to knowing what the RH is in your humidor.

Finally, If you're using Boveda packs in an airtight tupperware, it should be able to maintain +- 3 % of what the Boveda is rated at. I use 4 69% 60g Bovedas in my tupperdors that each have around 80-100 cigars in them. The temp is usually around 66 degrees F and the RH hangs from 66-67%.

I hope this helps.

Screw wooden humidors unless you really want to spend time maintaining it.

Well-sealed containers with a Boveda, just trust the pack. Forget the hygrometer. I keep my cigars in a Pelican case with a dozen 65% Bovedas and a pound of heartfelt beads, gave up on hygrometers, just let the beads and Bovedas do their thing. When the beads turn all white, I saturate them completely and the excess ends up swelling the Bovedas. As long as I see changes in the beads and packs, I'm happy.

I have a fancy ass desktop humidor. Not China crap, a proper handmade desktop humidor. I treat it like the Pelican case with beads and Bovedas, but it does require a lot more attention, at least monthly I have to resaturate the beads.

Anyway. Bovedas are a reliable two way system. If you eliminate air leaks, they'll do their thing. Forget the meters, gauge by how chit smokes. Once you got it dialed in, in a sealed environment, you're golden. No more worrying.

Well said Dan I still keep my wooden one full but it’s just to stop me from opening my sealed units
I always have to add somthing to the wooden one. It’s 20 to 30 rh in my house now so keeping humidity up in the wooden one takes patience

Second this. I have two of these, and they just work. Bovedas and Sistema. You can get them on Amazon for 22 bucks. Almost all of the reviews are from people who use them as humidors haha.

I have the 74 qt iris it’s pretty fantastic.

^ If you buy them for me, I'll send you some REOs.

Plain old green foam humidifiers have worked better than anything else I've ever tried.

uh??

(edit: I'm gonna assume this is a joke)

Borndead, You know there is a sarcasm smiley you can use. Haha

I'm not joking. I've tried beads, those jars with little blue/black balls in them, Boveda packs, water pillows, errthang. I eventually came back to the plain old green foam humidifiers in my desktops, Humi-Care EH plus electronic humidifiers in my wine fridges. Guess what those electronic humidifiers have in them? Green craft foam. I don't even run them most of the time. I take the fan part off and just leave the box in there. Checking my fridges now, one of them is at 64% humidity and the other is at 62% humidity. Perfect.