Hi all! I just upgraded to a Brinsea Ovation 56 EX and I'm trying to prep it to transfer eggs from my little POS to this one and I've got a problem! I can't seem to get the humidity up over 33-34%. I set it for 40% and it's been faithfully dripping water into the auto reservoir, and it's full now. I decided to manually add water to the other reservoir, and did, but it's only gone up by a single percent. I'd love some suggestions. Considering how hard it is to keep the humidity DOWN in my cheapie, I'm shocked that two full reservoirs aren't doing much to this beast. Running a humidifier isn't an option, it's actually pretty humid in the house right now and I'm not looking to make the household moisture issue worse.
I do have the vent as closed as it will go.
I know it comes with the little fluffy paper evaporating block to add to the reservoir if needed, but are there any alternatives to those? They're pretty expensive for single-use items and shipping them here adds quite a bit to that total, too (I'm in Alaska). Crumpled up paper towel in the reservoir? Sponge? Accordioned cardboard?
I'd read that getting humidity up at lockdown can be a problem in these, but wasn't expecting to have issues just getting it to regular 1-18 levels!
I do have the vent as closed as it will go.
I know it comes with the little fluffy paper evaporating block to add to the reservoir if needed, but are there any alternatives to those? They're pretty expensive for single-use items and shipping them here adds quite a bit to that total, too (I'm in Alaska). Crumpled up paper towel in the reservoir? Sponge? Accordioned cardboard?
I'd read that getting humidity up at lockdown can be a problem in these, but wasn't expecting to have issues just getting it to regular 1-18 levels!
