Homemade "wiggler" idea...PIC HEAVY

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

It's a cover you can buy to go over thermometers. Just thinking here...maybe the finger of a rubber glove would work as well and be more durable. The kind my sister uses for dishes. Maybe.
BTW- those old fashioned mercury thermometers NEVER had the batteries die at 2am Saturday morning!

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

That is very true. OK - next question - how would you read the thermometer in terms of humidity?

Schultz - please come back. You started a great idea!!!

 

[Schultz]

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Sorry I was getting slammed so hard there for a minute I didn't know what to say. Well my thoughts go back to my knowledge of heating and cooling, liquid transfers it's heat energy to everything it touches i.e the egg shell. The gel inside the egg would stay more true to the real eggs transfering the heat to the shell in which the electronic probe sensor will be taped firmly to the surface of the egg. I am going to make two of these and test my theory. One I will put the sensor in the egg and the other one with it taped to the surface and we'll see what happens. Thanks for all the ideas!

As far as the humidity LilRalphieRoosmama, my thermometer/hydrometer reads the humidity from the air inside the bator.

 

[Akane]

Your not reading humidity with it. Your reading the internal temp of an egg so you have a better idea what the embryos are incubating at instead of the air temp around them. You would just leave the 100F mark outside the egg so it could be read or with a probe type thermometer you would be reading off the connecting display.

Only problem with the glove idea is if it's not a tight fit your still going to end up reading closer to the air temp than inside the egg. The air getting down around the thermometer will throw the reading off. You need something that fits tightly around whatever thermometer your using so the gel in the water wiggler is touching it with only a layer of plastic seperating them.

Honestly if you want an easier way just fill a ziplock bag partially with water, fold it over, and stick the thermometer in the fold. Ta da water wiggler. Maybe not quite as accurate as if you got all the ideas in this thread working but much less effort.

 

[Schultz]

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You never know what will work the best until you try different ideas. I'm glad my truck doesn't run the same way an old model T did! Someone wasn't afraid of a little work!

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Well, I've had so many problems with varying temps and humidity that I'm willing to try just about anything. Because of all the problems I did buy a Sportsman incubator but still need to use my LG's and Hovabator.

Please don't let conflicting opinions bother you. Everybody has their own way of doing things that works for them and new ideas are what makes this site so great. I poo-poo'd a bunch of ideas and theories from others but found out they were mostly right after all. Not all, but mostly and I'm very stubborn.

I'm going to try your idea and I thank you for posting it

 

[wings]

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ME TOO!

 

[Schultz]

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You're welcome. We are currently working on making our second bator and it is a cabinet type, we want to have something in addition to the thermometer/humidity guage.
I know we all have our own opinions and will try to take that into consideration when reading posts. It's hard sometimes to have a debate via a forum such as this because you can't see a persons mannerisms, body language or expressions.

 

[carinlynchin]

shultz....I gotta say I kind of felt you were getting slammed too...so it wasn't just you ...but i am also learning a lot....like one question I have is...when you use this "wiggler" thing, no matter which way you do it...do you still measure 99.5 or whatever your egg requires...because for example, my incubator says I have to have 99.5(forced air) for all eggs, well what if the air is 99.5 because that is how the researchers researched this incubation information, but inside the egg its like 98.5 or something (am i making any sense).............so, if i do this wiggler to where it reads 99.5 (inside egg simulation) but the air outside is actually 100.5......

gosh I feel like I can think it, but its not coming out as clear what i am trying to say...so to summarize....do we still use the same temp as if we had a regular thermo. on top of eggs?

 

[macnugget]

great idea but you can get ww at http://www.buycostumes.com/Clown-Fish-Water-Wiggler/24580/ProductDetail.aspx