I have an Octagon 20 Advance with the humidity pump, and I really like it. I set it at 45% then 70% for hatching chicken eggs and it works a dream. I weigh my eggs to check correct moisture loss but hardly need to with the
Brinsea and my own eggs, cause it is so steady. I really like not having to check humidity and swap water dishes around and fuss about with surface area etc...
The only problem I've had with it has been in the last week when I was trying to get the humidity up to 80% for lockdown with some duck eggs. I set it at 80%, but humidity in the bator just wouldn't rise above 75%, so the pump kept turning and turning and drawing more and more water into the bator to try and get the humidity up, and eventually it overflowed the two water wells and leaked out the bottom of the bator and made a giant puddle underneath. Which I didn't mind very much, but I WAS rather annoyed I couldn't get it up to the humidity I wanted. I had to turn it down to 75% to stop the overflow problem, and now the only duckling that made it this far is shrinkwrapped and I'm having to help him out.
I think this is more a problem of me not knowing how to manipulate conditions in my bator rather than the bator & pump combo being faulty or a poor design, as Yinepu on here has a
Brinsea Eco and manages to get humidity up to 80% easily, with just some scrunched up paper towels in the water wells. I've only had the bator a short while and I've probably got some stuff to learn about it yet.
Basically, I'd totally recommend the pump!
