Converting an old incubator

[rebelcowboysnb]

Nope, of coarse not. But all the parts are an there wired to spec. I do need one more outlet box.

 

[tkalito]

It is a oil or kerosene lamp heated incubator. No not produce steem it just heat up the water in the pipes.It should have a wafer thermostat that control a vent on top of the lamp. the amount of heate can also be regulated by the size of the wick on tne lamp.

 

[redhen689]

Very cool project.
Wow, I was surprised the bubble humidifier didn't work. (Yes the surface are of the bubbles does count as surface area.)
I tend to do things in a more low tech way. I'd try is to place a container of water or two in there with sponges sticking up out of them, and blow a fan over them.
In reality it is way more important to get the temperature correct than to get the humidity dead on.

Is it sealed up pretty tight? If it isn't then you are losing humidity in the room constantly. The heater can compensate, but apparently not your humidifier. Is there a way that you can increase the humidity of the room it is in? Keep it in a smaller room with the doors closed, and run a room humidifier in the room? A thread I read about "dry incubation" said to keep the incubator in a room humidified to 50% relative humidity... the humidity in the incubator would be lower, because of the temperature difference.