Hygrometer Calibration

[ssbs]

I wanted to check and make sure my hygrometer was correct.. I followed the test instructions and it actually said 72%, but I am wondering if the temperature in the room was too high for that to be correct.. The temp in my house is 81, would that make the test inconclusive??

Thanks

 

[ssbs]

Anyone???

 

[Denninmi]

It should work at any temperature within its range -- the manufacturer should indicate what the working range is, but generally if it was designed for indoor/outdoor use it should be accurate from like -20 to +140 F.

 

[ssbs]

Okay, thanks for letting me know.

I wasn't sure because the instructions I've found said to test it at room temperature, which is normally about 70.

 

[Denninmi]

Well, you know, the thing about it is, the accuracy is also going to be a function of the quality of the instrument. I bought 3 separate cheap thermometer/hygrometers back in May to put into my incubator as a safeguard -- well, all three gave different readings when set side by side in the center of the incubator. It was frustrating. They were off by as much as a couple of degrees and 6-8 percentage points on the humidity.

So you have to take it all with a grain of salt anyway.

 

[ssbs]

Yeah, that is true with anything.. I hatched 8 out of 23 eggs with the hygrometer/thermometer that I've got.. 10 of the eggs didn't have any veins or anything in them, but I guess the thing can't be too far off since atleast some of the babies survived.

The problem that I ran into 3 days before hatch day was the power went out, I had to move the cooler-bator to a office building. In the process the bowl of water spilt out, when the babies started hatching I wasn't here. I lost two to drowning, there was one that piped on the wrong end and suffocated. There were two that were slightly less developed and died it the shells. I guess they died due to the temp flux during the outage.