**Home made egg candler. Post your pics**

i just use my iphone. I was gonna build one but the iphone works great with no modification. Just turn on the torch app and put the egg on the little hole the camera flash is in. I can tell whats going on all the way to day 16 and by then i usually know whats good and whats bad.
Wow, this is the best one I have seen and works well, Thank's
 
I need a more powerful light NOW ..... to determine top/bottom of a BCM egg that was perfectly oval.
I made this contraption in 15 minutes from stuff I had on hand. Even with a 75 watt bulb, I could not
tell top from bottom of the egg, so I just put it in to hope for the best. will candle it again in a week.
If it is upside down, I will discard it.


One note to add to the photos ........... I did not need the hard PVC fitting even for the smallest of my eggs.
so the 2" to 1" rubber reducer works great for my projects here.


I will add an inline ON/OFF switch this week so I don't have to unplug it every few minutes ......

HAPPY HATCHING !!!

John in Florida, Where the Palm Trees meet the Ocean
























 
Here's an egg candler that I made using one of the new, cheap LED bulbs. I bought the bulb at Walmart for around $11 and it was probably the only part that cost over $1. I probably only have $14 in the whole thing but I did already have scrap wood, nails and screws. The bulb was a 60w equivalent and I think it was rated at about 650-750 lumens but you can find bulbs rated at over 1,000 lumens for about the same price but it probably isn't necessary. With this bulb you can see plenty!

The bulb comes with a diffusing cover to keep the LED from being too harsh to look at. This needs to be removed. You can see the plug-in bulb socket already attached and it costs about $1.





I used a table saw to make a shallow cut through the diffusing cover.


You can see the 8 LEDs that make this bright bulb work. This cover actually just popped off completely after I cut most of it off with the saw.



I pre-made the box but left the lid off until after the bulb was screwed onto it and centered on the hold that I cut. There is just an extension cord that runs into the box and I went to the probably unnecessary effort to cut the cord and run it through a hole and attach a new after-market plug. The extension cord cost $1 and the after market plug cost $1 but really you could just cut a groove on the bottom edge of the box or even just have the cord run under the box.



Here's the box basically completed. I added a black felt pad to the box to try and block some of the light that escapes around the bottom edge of the egg when it is on the candler. The screw heads stick up a bit because of the extreme angle of the screws but they really aren't in the way. I'm sure there is a better way to deal with this aspect but it works just fine.


Now this photo is blurry because I took it in complete darkness with no flash. If I had used a tripod you could see it even more clearly. In real life, you can really see very well inside the egg. Not only can you see the veins clearly (this egg is about 2 weeks old) but you can even see that the veins are red with blood. There is no trouble seeing veins in a one week old egg. I was able to clearly see the difference between a healthy egg and one with a blood ring (which showed up as a clear, red line...very different from healthy veins).

 
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i just use my iphone.  I was gonna build one but the iphone works great with no modification.  Just turn on the torch app and put the egg on the little hole the camera flash is in.  I can tell whats going on all the way to day 16 and by then i usually know whats good and whats bad.


Just discovered this post from 2012 and gave it a quick try. This is the single most BRILLIANT solution I've ever read! Works perfectly, light is cool to the touch, small enough to work as a candler and super bright! Mattblackburn, I don't know if you still are on this site two years later but bravo! And thanks from my husband who had been given the job of building us one.
 

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