frustrated with humidity and temp levels!

@penny1960
I'm "confused" .... Ok the Janoel 12 I have just has temp reading which has been right on but no humidity. It does have an alarm setting for humidity.

I put the mercury thermometer in the incubator, temp 100 & humidity 35 - 38%. Incubator was at factory setting 38C/100.4*

I calibrated the hygrometer as learned here, salt slurry in a ziplock bag for 6hrs ... Hygrometer temp read 77* humidity was 71% (I'm in HI). I added it to my incubator with a mercury thermometer that also read humidity (temp 100 humidity 35 - 38%).

Maybe I didn't wait long enough but in a couple of hours, the Mercury was reading the same but the Hygrometer said 102.9* humidity 25% ? I'm thinking the Mercury is more likely correct, maybe the Hygro needs more time to stabilize as it takes 6hrs for testing?

I got this cause the reviews were good, like that it's all plastic & seems easy to operate but I maybe over thinking & impatient with testing the temp & humidity. Any advice you can give me, I would really appreciate. Don't have any eggs waiting, want to get this unit mastered before I even plan on any eggs :) Thank you

You may have more of an issue where you live, you need to leave the Hygrometer and the humidity alone for 24 hours please and be aware that some of this will need to change because of that
 
update: the eggs are doing good. I put them in yesterday. the humidity is around 45% still a little high but its slowly lowering. the temp of one side and all through 3/4 of the incubator is around 101° the other quarter says 90 but that's on for 2 inches. so I put the eggs in the middle were its probuly around 100°. I really hope these hatch cause I've tried two tu.es before this each with around 20 eggs and the first time I got one to hatch but had 3 chicks that died absorbing the yolk. the next time I got one that hatched to a blood vessel and our power went off so I had to crack the eggs. had two alive so I put them down real fast and then 3 or so that gave up absorbing.
 

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