Incubating and discouraged

[RosieR]

My new bator is built! Doing testing now

 

[cosmosue]

Sorry about the little one Rosie

 

[le_bwah]

My new bator is built! Doing testing now
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Looking good! Are those gel packs for heat retention?

 

[RosieR]

Looking good! Are those gel packs for heat retention?

Yes they are there for heat sinks. I figured it would be a good idea in case of a power outage or something.

 

[RenegadeSkate3]

In case of a power outage I have a handled brake generator the side of a lunch box... I crank that baby 55 times and it gets me 5-7 hours of energy! (I use it for camping) but it’s my back up for power shortage!!! Good luck RosieR

 

[RosieR]

In case of a power outage I have a handled brake generator the side of a lunch box... I crank that baby 55 times and it gets me 5-7 hours of energy! (I use it for camping) but it’s my back up for power shortage!!! Good luck RosieR

Good idea!

 

[Erkenstein]

Looks great. Are you testing the temperature in all parts of the incubator? I'm curious as to whether that fan is circulating evenly. If you find that it isn't, you may want to play around with adding curves to the facing wall (something corrugated on the far wall?).

 

[RosieR]

Looks great. Are you testing the temperature in all parts of the incubator? I'm curious as to whether that fan is circulating evenly. If you find that it isn't, you may want to play around with adding curves to the facing wall (something corrugated on the far wall?).

I need to do that still. I plugged it in last night to see if it would run well. Tonight’s task is to check for hot and cold spots.
I could easily add another fan if needed, but we’ll see.

 

[RosieR]

I need to do that still. I plugged it in last night to see if it would run well. Tonight’s task is to check for hot and cold spots.
I could easily add another fan if needed, but we’ll see.

My thermostat still needs to be calibrated as well. It’s got a short temp range but the thermometer I have says it’s running hot so I’ll play with that as well.

 

[RosieR]

Looking good so far. I’ll move the thermometers around and see how consistent the temperatures are throughout.