Homemade Egg-o-Meter Works!

[bigdawg]

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well if the one i bought doesnt work out in 21 days i will be taking mine apart and finding out .l.o.l.

 

[cbiblis]

if you want to know what i did, here it is. hair gel maybe haven't tried it, but since we are dealing with electronics and any conduction at all will throw the sensor off. i chose to use dielectric grease. you can purchase it from any hardware store. dielectric grease is designed to coat electrical connections to keep them from corroding. It will stay in liquid form and simulate the interior of an egg perfectly. it will not interfere with the sensor reading at all. You have to realize that digital sensors differentiate temperatures with .0001 ohms to read 1/10's humidity alone will throw off the reading. Well anyhow lowe's offers dielectric grease in littler bottles for under 10 dollars. I hope this helps you'll.

 

[speckledhen]

I never would have thought of dielectric grease! I wonder if DH has some in all our supplies here. Probably so.

 

[IncubatorWarehouse.com]

It is fun to see a discussion about our product the Egg-o-meter. We ran out of stock of our original thermometer, and decided it was time for an upgrade. You can see the new Egg-o-meter (tm) at the following link:

The Official Egg-o-meter - A Better Egg Thermometer!

We have introduced a number of new features that make the new Egg-o-meter even better.
- Now has a built in alarm so you can know when the temperature of your egg drops below or goes above a certain temperature.
- Min/Max Memory, so you can see what your eggs have been through since you last checked.
- Choose between C or F
- Battery now included

Happy Incubating! BTW - We used to sell the same therm/hyg that is sold at wal-mart and we have now discontinued it because about 1 in 15 or 20 would be defective in some way.

 

[speckledhen]

Looks like a nice added feature to your Egg-o-Meter!

 

[bigdawg]

i realy like the one i have. but i will be needing another one come spring so i will be getting the new improved model. thanks for the update.

 

[ParadisePoultry]

For those of you wanting to use wet and dry bulb method for humidity, here are two links, one is to a C to F conversion (my therms are C), the other is a humidity converter. You just plug in the dry and wet bulb readings and it tells you what the % humidity is. Cool huh?

http://www.onlineconversion.com/temperature.htm

http://www.ringbell.co.uk/info/humid.htm

Hope these help. I always use lab thermometers when incubating. ( I work in a lab). They are always in Celcius. I don't trust digital. I do use a digital from Wal-Mart to keep track of room temp and humidity.

BTW when I made my egg-o-meter, I used a blown out egg (sealed the tiny bottom hole with glue) and filled with Dawn dishsoap-just to simulate a similar consistancy. Hair gel would work also, but may have alcohol that might evaporate. But that dilectric grease sounds like the best yet.

Cheers, bj

 

[M To The Maxx]

This is interesting Speckledhen! t is cool!!!