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Homemade Incubator

Discussion in 'Incubating & Hatching Eggs' started by pigeonhigh7, Mar 22, 2009.

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  1. Mar 22, 2009 #1
    pigeonhigh7

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    Help i put a water heater thermostat in my incubator it heats up to 100 but it drops all the way down to 80 before kicks back on is this ok i would like to hatch chickens and ducks eggs
     
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  3. Mar 22, 2009 #2
    gabrielle1976

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    try the hatching / incubateing part of the forum [​IMG]
     
  5. Mar 22, 2009 #3
    al6517

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    Try drawing the thermostat away from the wall it is mounted on, add some sort of a spacer to the back of it, that is where the sensor is. Just don't block the sensor.

    AL
     

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