I got a free cabinet incubator today!!!

[Cara]

Thanks, I am so pleased with it! I can't imagine buying a place and finding an incubator in an outbuilding!!

 

[twigg]

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The wafers should be replaced every 2 years ..... every year if you use it a lot. They are filled with ether, which escapes eventually. They are cheap.

If you are technically minded, a conversion to electronic temp. control isn't too hard.

 

[Cara]

The wafer looks tarnished.

I had to LOL at 'if you are technically minded', with all the talk of twisty things and L-shaped bits. How was i supposed to know the part known as the adjusting screw was for making adjustments?

My husband thankfully is a lot more technically minded; in our home he's in charge of anything tall, heavy or technical. When you say electronic temperature control, would that be like my R-COM, with digital settings?

 

[twigg]

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Replace the wafers anyway ... then do all the other fiddling and adjusting suggested here before replacing anything else.

 

[jvls1942]

the bator has a solid state thermostat with a wafer high heat back up..

before we get way off the subject.,
did you go through the set up procedure I laid out for you?

are you going to??

did I just spend 20 minutes typing for nothing>?

 

[twigg]

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heh ... well that will make the conversion easy

It's never wasted .... lots of people read and find advice helpful.

 

[Cara]

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Easy tiger, all advice has been duly noted, heeded, and acted upon. I'm waiting for the temperature to rise before adjusting the black twisty thing. Sorry if any offense was caused, this is all greek to me.

 

[Cara]

The L-shaped thing is twisted as far to the left as it will go. The wafer is touching the side of the incubator. When I twist it to the right it moves closer to the other side of the bracket.

The black twisty knob is as far to the right as it will go.

The temperature is holding at 85F.

 

[jvls1942]

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OK then, you have the black knob set at the lowest setting it will go.

turn the black knob to the left.

BTW,does a light come on at an time?

If a light comes on when you turn the black knob that means the heating element is on and the temperature should rise..
if a light is going on and off while the bator is holding a certain temp, that is the light I am talking about..

 

[Cara]

I turned the black knob halfway to the left, and it's currently at 95.4F and rising

The 'heater' light does blink when it's maintaining, and stays on when it's rising (it operates just like the one on my Brinsea).