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[ChickenCanoe]

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you have the STC ?

@ChickenCanoe Paddler can you please help with this placement? I use wafers. or @dheltzel I swear I took note of your comment but cant find it now!!! sorry!

Are you referring to the location of the sensor or the heat element/lamps?
With a fan, I'd put the sensor in the midst of the eggs and heat sources far from the eggs. Perhaps at opposite corners. You just don't want hot spots and cold spots.

The little things that frustrate me... I pride on the spelling of words, and I go to Hoovers Hatchery and they have Ameraucana spelled Americana. They should at least know how to spell their own chicken breed names.

Agree, kind of like Orphingtons.

There is a learning curve to the Ameraucana, Araucana thing. In both cases, the au is before the cana.

 

[daxigait]

The little things that frustrate me... I pride on the spelling of words, and I go to Hoovers Hatchery and they have Ameraucana spelled Americana. They should at least know how to spell their own chicken breed names.

That is the one thing I saw, but it is closer to an EE since it does multiple colors. The rest seemed fine.

 

[dheltzel]

you have the STC ?

@ChickenCanoe Paddler can you please help with this placement? I use wafers. or @dheltzel I swear I took note of your comment but cant find it now!!! sorry!

STC-1000's have a waterproof sensor on a long cord, I recommend putting the actual unit outside the incubator and the sensor wire, plus the 2 power leads for the element through a hole to the inside. In my coolerbator, I just put them through the drain hole. On the inside, tape or otherwise attach the sensor wherever you want, but presumably in the airstream in front of the fan and heating element. One nice thing is that you can "tune" this my easily moving the sensor. With regular thermostats, you have to move the entire unit if you aren't getting the right temp control.

 

[chicken hawk 33]

how are u this morning.

 

[attimus]

STC-1000's have a waterproof sensor on a long cord, I recommend putting the actual unit outside the incubator and the sensor wire, plus the 2 power leads for the element through a hole to the inside. In my coolerbator, I just put them through the drain hole. On the inside, tape or otherwise attach the sensor wherever you want, but presumably in the airstream in front of the fan and heating element. One nice thing is that you can "tune" this my easily moving the sensor. With regular thermostats, you have to move the entire unit if you aren't getting the right temp control.

thanks I was planning on mounting the control into the box but was having a hard time figuring out how the wires would connect to the lights. As they would be outside and box would be going in.

 

[attimus]

2 inches from top of outside of box to interior lights to be mounted just under that and to the sides of viewing window. I now understand to mount my control on the outside of box. There are currently no holes for any purposes so the sensor node will get its own hole as well as the fan and Turner.

 

[Chaos18]

STC-1000's have a waterproof sensor on a long cord, I recommend putting the actual unit outside the incubator and the sensor wire, plus the 2 power leads for the element through a hole to the inside. In my coolerbator, I just put them through the drain hole. On the inside, tape or otherwise attach the sensor wherever you want, but presumably in the airstream in front of the fan and heating element. One nice thing is that you can "tune" this my easily moving the sensor. With regular thermostats, you have to move the entire unit if you aren't getting the right temp control.

Do you have a pic of the sensor location in your coolerbator?

 

[tao chick]

Pavlovskaya #2 is the first with an external pip that I can see.

 

[attimus]

Do you have a pic of the sensor location in your coolerbator?

id also like to see this and it's relation to the wiring for the lights, trying to keep my build as clean as I can.

 

[gotro17]

oh whites, you did in fact bring your A game today.  

Told you!