Humidity too high with new Binsea Ovation

[ndgeller]

I just purchased a Brinsea Ovation 28. I set it up, using the default setting. On the digital displays. Temperature is fine, but humidity shows 75. They both say okay. But 75 is high, isn't it? I tried opening that thing up more, which is supposed to help, but it hasn't.
And they are Ayami Cemanis... so stupid to put such expensive eggs in the first time I have ever tried to incubate eggs. Just too excited. Should have waited and done a test batch of eggs which are a little less expensive first
I tried calling Brynn's I, but they are in Florida and their phones aren't working due to thehurricanes.neither is their Internet

 

[Pork Pie]

Yes, it is too high. Not sure which model you have, but I'd have thought that you can programme the humidity settings Take a look at the accompanying guide and see if that's possible, would be my advice.

Have you tried mailing Brinsea in the UK? They have always been pretty good at responding to me.

 

[Egghead_Jr]

Get another hygrometer and check if that Brinsea number is even accurate. You've taken all water out of unit right? If that's the case and it's still reading 75 RH then clearly its broken. If you haven't taken out the water then do so and see what your base RH is. Likely it's good for incubation and you now know where to add water for hatching RH. I'd still check the unit with a salt test calibrated accurite or other cheap hygrometer from walmart.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

How long did you have it set up and running before you added your eggs? Once you added the eggs did you give it chance to settle?

 

[Miss717]

Get another hygrometer and check if that Brinsea number is even accurate.

X2

 

[ndgeller]

I think I was looking at the wrong display. Now I have scrolled to rh. It says okay, but when I open it, it says 20% EX only. It is not an ex, though. Should I adjust it to 40%? I have searched all the literature, and I am still baffled. No response from Brinsea. Any ideas? Should I leave it and trust that the default settings are correct, or adjust it? FRUSTRATED. My poor eggs

 

[ndgeller]

How long did you have it set up and running before you added your eggs? Once you added the eggs did you give it chance to settle?

Yes.
I realize I was looking at the wrong part of the display. But... when I went to "the rh" it said 20% EX Only. I don't have an EX. Change it to 40%, or trust the default it came set with?

 

[Egghead_Jr]

The EX model self regulates the humidity to your setting. That 20% means nothing to you nor would changing the setting change the humidity. The manual shows the incubator display while running. It has a T and an H for temp and humidity. What does it say for H? And do you have any water in there or is it running dry?

If you have both of the water containers filled with water and the H reading is 75% I'd say that's fairly accurate. As suggested before take all water out and determine what your humidity is. It's very likely you won't have to add any water until day 19 to fill up the two water pans and let it be for hatch. If I'm understanding you, you now have water in both pans and are running 75% RH. That's far to humid for incubation but great to know you can get good humidity for hatch time. The eggs need to loose moisture during incubation to grow the air cell. Take all the water out of unit so they can do that.

 

[ndgeller]

Thank you very very much for taking the time to answer, and for that information I really appreciate it. I'll tell you how things come out...

 

[ndgeller]

You are a genius; you were EXACTLY right...
No water for at least 3 weeks. Water emptied out. All is well. Just hoping the first 3 days of drowning my eggs in 75% water didn't hurt my eggs. We will see.
Thanks again