Quote Originally Posted by DogRockets View Post
I gave up on stupid hygrometers a while ago. I went exclusively to a Boveda only humidification strategy. As long as they keep their normal shape, I know my humidity is sitting at 65%. I could never get an accurate reading out of my stupid little machine. So into the trash it went!
^^^ This!!! Except for I didn't throw the useless things away, they are still in there for what reason I don't really know.

I've ended up with this...
I have Heartfelt 65% beads for my reservoir; a tube and a puck in my little cheapie humi and a decent sized rectangular thing in my bigger cheapie humi. I also have a 65% Boveda pack in each one of them. I add water to the beads when they all turn white so that the Boveda lasts longer. Only reason is it's easier to recharge beads than it is to recharge a Boveda pack and these cheap humidors leak humidity pretty good. Now I don't want to hear all the hubbub about how you're not supposed to squirt water on Heartfelt beads because they shatter and blah blah blah. I know all that. I do it anyway. Yes, they do shatter. Who cares. When they all turn to dust I'll get new ones.

In my good little Diamond Crown humidor (my 'good cigar' box) I have one Boveda pack and that seems to keep everything just fine. Plus it lasts forever because a) it's a good humidor that doesn't leak, and b) I hardly ever open it. I seldom smoke a 'good' cigar. I'm too cheap so I just end up hoarding them

Each humidor has a hygro but I seldom pay attention to it. Last time the batteries died in one of them it was 6 months before I got around to replacing them. They're still there because they were there before - pretty much no other reason. Maybe they're there because there's a neat little frame on the lid with a cutout that looks like it should have a hygrometer in it.

In my 5 gallon buck-a-dor and my ammo-canidor (both 'seal it and forget it' storage) and also in my pickle-jaridor, I only use Boveda packs. Those also last virtually forever. I probably recharge them once a year. None of these even have a hygrometer in them.