Humidity stupidity?

[Junkmanme]

A friend of mine in Loveland, Colorado invented a humidifier back in the 1970's. It was about the size of 2 cigarette packs and was installed into the ductwork of a house's "forced-air furnace".

It was fed water by a line like you'd use on an evaporative cooler. It had a nozzle that injected microscopic particles of water into the airflow in the ductwork. The water particles were so small that you couldn't see them nor could you see any fog. However, if you put your hand in front of the nozzle, it would come away wet.

This item was marketed for a while, but I don't know if it is still available. You wouldn't really call it a "mister" because there was no apparent MIST.

As mentioned in a previous post, it would probably be "overkill" for a small incubator. BUT, put on a timer or humidistat, it seems to me that it would work well in a cabinet 'bator.

Unfortunately, I can't recall what the NAME of this humidifier was way back then.

-Junkmanme-

 

[ktown55]

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What Is It With These Hovabators? Now I'm Having Troubles Too...But Mine Is To Much Humidlty...After Two Of the Chicks Hatched The Humidity Went Out the Roof....Have You Or Have You Heard Of Anyone Useing A ( Little Giant Air Incubator 9200 ) From Tractor Suppy?
Just Wondering If there Any Better then The Hovabator...the Wife Is Thinking About Buying Me One...Thanks And Good Luck To You And Eveyone...............Ktown

 

[The Sheriff]

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My humidity always goes really high when a chick hatches. It is because they are wet. Mine usually goes back down fairly quickly as they dry off. If I have a few wet ones in there at once I have removed plugs or cracked the lid a tiny bit to get the moisture out. I usually don't do anything unless the windows fog up. I used a Little Giant on my first hatch, then bought a used Hovabator, then finally the Brinsea.

 

[sangel4you]

That is great- what section of wally world was it in? I am ok now with humidity (35-50) but I have the wells all filled and two spnges in there already... I am concerned about getting it high for hatch. Altho I can say mine is not the bator- it's the fact that I live in the basement and my heat source is a fire place so it's dry down here. Oh and to whoever asked, I have an LG 9200 that I bought at tractor supply. This is the first hatch with it, and so far on day 8 15/15 have veining and movement! And it only took me about 4 hours to get it regulated. It does change occasionally depending on temps and humidity in here but I'd say it's only about once a day that I have to adjust it just a touch and it's basically been between 99 and 102 which is fine for a still air or so I understand. I did take one of those turny light knobs and pop it on the temp regulator though just to make it less sensitive. Good luck!

 

[The Sheriff]

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I found it in the pharmacy section right alongside the big humidifiers and vaporizers.

 

[dovecanyon]

Warden- I was just looking at the pic of the tiny humidifier and it looks like there is a sliding switch on it? Is that what it is, or does it just look like it in the photo? Would that be to adjust how much moisture it releases? I am going to WalMart later today and will see if ours has one. I am building my own hatcher, and this looks too cool to be true!

 

[The Sheriff]

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I don't think it is actually a sliding switch but it does sort of stop halfway up and limits the amount of moisture coming out. I thought about taping it in that position of full open is too much.

 

[mstricer]

If you have a turner you could cover with plastic and that should hold in more moisture. (you will see how much you are actually losing) Has anyone else tried this? I was able to maintain humidity at 40% for 8 hr stretches until I had to open bator and turn

 

[RioLindoAz]

If you can get your hands on a humidostat, you'll have an awsome system running.

I've actually seen some humidostats for frog habitats at Petsmart.

 

[leedle1965]

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