Im making a homemade cabinet incubator but I'm confused about where to position the fan to fully circulate air with heat around the areas in the incubator..please help, any suggestions on where to position the fan??
Im making a homemade cabinet incubator but I'm confused about where to position the fan to fully circulate air with heat around the areas in the incubator..please help, any suggestions on where to position the fan??
Coturnix corner has a pretty good design for a cabinet incubator... heres a link to his video
My GQF incubator is laid out similar. You have the fan and heating elements on a top shelf, extrenal vents at the top and bottom to control humidity. Here's a couple pics of the GQF cabinet.
This is looking at the back side with the back removed....
Here's a couple of the front. There's a shelf in the top the fan and heating elements are on. The shelf doesn't extend all the way to the front and back, there is a couple inch gap at the front and back so the air will circulate...
I was going to build one and had already purchased a few of the items when I ran across four of these incubators on craigslist.
To build a VERY good quality cabinet, it was going to cost me well over $300 (you can do it for cheaper). The most expensive part was the plywood and the 3 egg turners. Well I ended up buying these GQF cabinets instead for $250 each and sold two of them to a friend.
Unless you are dead set on building one or are planning to build one on the cheap I would look very hard for some used GQF cabinets. They work great...
