fluctuating temp in styrofoam bator

[artathart]

Back to the subject at hand.....I am having the same problem you are. I am using both the LG thermometers and a digital one as well. Same brand as yours from Walmart per instrcution from another BYC member. I have 5 total, All different and it is driving me nuts. My temps will be fine for a few hours and then spike. I didn't sleep a wink last night and once I got it at a steady 100% I went to sleep and wok up to 102 degree incubator. So I went and bought a NEW digital one this evening and I cannot get it to raise about 97 degrees when my LG one laying on top of the eggs is reading 100-101 degrees. So I think I am going to return both the digital ones and just say to helck with it. I will use the ones that came with the incubators and hopefully all will work out. If not, I will be getting a new digital incubator because this just seems like a lot of work for temps!

 

[ramhatch]

Let them sit for several hours to level out. I have 2 in mine sometimes they read the same and other times there is a 2 degree diff. Some take longer to register the current temp so then the other one passes it up. My acurite digital sensor is run through the hole in the top of my LG and hangs at the top of eggs.
In a 10 hr period the min is 99.2 and the max is 102.2. So it averages 101.2 at the top of eggs. I have no fan in my bator. I also have a digital on the table beside the bator. Min is 68.2 and max is 70.6. They are due to hatch the 11th. We'll see what happens.

 

[maidstonefarmky]

We're doing our first hatch with our new styrofoam Little Giant incubator. It took about a day but the temperature is holding steady. We're just using the two thermometers that came with the incubator and egg turner, one on top of the eggs and one on the empty side of the incubator. They're never the same so I'm going with the one on the eggs. We're trying to hatch our Bantam Cochin hen's eggs, hopefully it works out!

 

[youngbiddy]

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Do not trust the LG thermometers. They are lying little GDLGSOB's. They read several degrees too high and they will destroy your hatch if you trust them.

 

[artathart]

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I just changed the position of my Acurtie digital sensor as well. Now its hanging in the red plug hole in the back of the incubator just at the top of two eggs. I am holding steady at 101.3. I think this is the best unintended advice I have received so far! I think at last I have reached the right temp in my LG Incubator.....but was it to late? I placed the eggs 24 hours ago. Will wait and see.

 

[ramhatch]

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I just changed the position of my Acurtie digital sensor as well. Now its hanging in the red plug hole in the back of the incubator just at the top of two eggs. I am holding steady at 101.3. I think this is the best unintended advice I have received so far! I think at last I have reached the right temp in my LG Incubator.....but was it to late? I placed the eggs 24 hours ago. Will wait and see.

I think they will be fine. It takes a good while for the inside of eggs to heat up. Iv had spikes up to 106 before and still had a good hatch. Good Luck.

 

[lucky123]

I have bought 8 different temp gauges and the white digital ones that read temp and humidity were off by as much as 3 degree's. I bought the new one that just came out with a prob that reads both temp and humidity, and it was way off on both. The ones that come with them are junk. The most accurate one i have found is the spot check by brinsea. If you have the fan model you will get a inaccurate reading right under the fan. I put if off to the side at egg level. If you check it at one minute after the light goes out this will be your highest reading, with your lowest being right before the light comes on. The temp will fluctuate in all of them at least 1 degree or more.

 

[kstaven]

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I just changed the position of my Acurtie digital sensor as well. Now its hanging in the red plug hole in the back of the incubator just at the top of two eggs. I am holding steady at 101.3. I think this is the best unintended advice I have received so far! I think at last I have reached the right temp in my LG Incubator.....but was it to late? I placed the eggs 24 hours ago. Will wait and see.

Eggs tolerate fluctuation better than most people assume. Consider that a hen gets off the nest to eat, drink, etc... all the time and the eggs do not suffer. The biggest factor we commonly see when people incubate eggs is to much humidity.

Have hatched in everything from homemade boxes with a bulb to the Brinsea Ova-Easy 380 we use now.

 

[bburn]

OMG....we are all doing the same thing....running out and buying thermometers like crazy people.

I have bought 6 just this week!! Good thing DH is out of town working!

I am trusting and average at this point and I am going to leave the dern thing alone. The last thermometer I bought was the fish tank one. The digital with the probe was off the charts.

Am just gonna keep my eggs nice and warm and stop worrying!! I have candled a few....there is another hard one. Before lock down I will check them again. I did find one blood ring that I am going to toss.

We are all gonna be nuts!

 

[kstaven]

Hate to tell you all this but all I ever used was the cheapest humidor digital thermometer/ hydrometer on the market. $10.00 About the size of a silver dollar and sat on the egg turner tray.