Incubator lost power

[gtaus]

...My incubator lost power today...Any suggestions.

Have you considered getting a computer uninterruptible power supply (UPS)? If you lose power, the UPS immediately switches over to battery backup and sounds an alarm. My UPS backups are rated to handle about 600 watts and can keep a computer running for about 30 minutes. I can't imagine an incubator using as many watts as a computer system, so it should protect your eggs for quite some time. Also, the UPS alarm will wake you from a dead sleep. My alarm will not stop unless the power comes back on, or I manually turn off the alarm. Either way, I know it needs attention. Anyway, it's something to consider for the future.

I hope your eggs were not lost.

 

[curliegirlie89]

Thank you to everyone who has contributed with advise and suggestions. I can happily report that all 5 of my eggs have survived! I took the advice to wait until they warmed up and candled them tonight. All have a great web of veins and there is a lot of movement.

 

[Knighstar679]

Thank you to everyone who has contributed with advise and suggestions. I can happily report that all 5 of my eggs have survived! I took the advice to wait until they warmed up and candled them tonight. All have a great web of veins and there is a lot of movement.

Yay so glad to hear.

 

[curliegirlie89]

Have you considered getting a computer uninterruptible power supply (UPS)? If you lose power, the UPS immediately switches over to battery backup and sounds an alarm. My UPS backups are rated to handle about 600 watts and can keep a computer running for about 30 minutes. I can't imagine an incubator using as many watts as a computer system, so it should protect your eggs for quite some time. Also, the UPS alarm will wake you from a dead sleep. My alarm will not stop unless the power comes back on, or I manually turn off the alarm. Either way, I know it needs attention. Anyway, it's something to consider for the future.

I hope your eggs were not lost.

Thanks for the suggestion but it may be a bit much for my little incubator. It’s a Brensea Advanced Mini II. It only holds 7 eggs at the most. If we ever decide to scale up, I will certainly look in to a UPS alarm.

 

[jolenesdad]

 

[Ebony Rose]

My UPS backups are rated to handle about 600 watts and can keep a computer running for about 30 minutes. I can't imagine an incubator using as many watts as a computer system, so it should protect your eggs for quite some time.

My incubator holds 41 chicken/duck eggs or 118 quail eggs and only uses 40 watts. So your UPS could probably keep my incubator running for about 7 1/2 hours.

 

[gtaus]

Thanks for the suggestion but it may be a bit much for my little incubator. It’s a Brensea Advanced Mini II. It only holds 7 eggs at the most. If we ever decide to scale up, I will certainly look in to a UPS alarm.

To be clear, I was suggesting those small $40 UPS units used for home computer systems.

Glad to hear your eggs survived.

 

[gtaus]

My incubator holds 41 chicken/duck eggs or 118 quail eggs and only uses 40 watts. So your UPS could probably keep my incubator running for about 7 1/2 hours.

Well, it would probably keep your incubator running much longer because a computer uses constant wattage while turned on, while I imagine the incubator turns itself on/off depending on the temp. At any rate, it's a cheap way to ensure an alarm sounds if the power goes out while still providing power for the heat, and gives you extended time to correct the issue. I don't have an incubator yet, but if I do get one, I'll just use the UPS I have on my front room TV while trying to hatch eggs. That way I can sleep well at night and don't have to worry during the day while at work.

 

[curliegirlie89]

Update #2: One egg has stopped developing, so I’ve had to cull it. But the others are still going strong and look like they will hatch on time (I think).

 

[Knighstar679]

Great news.