Incustat advanced from incubator warehouse

[Ironsights]

Does anyone have any experience with this thermostat? I checked my incubator this morning and the thermostat temp had changed to 108 degrees. There was no reason that I could see for it to do this, such as power going out or surges, (I have a great deal of experience with electronics) After turning it on and off a number of times it allowed me to go into the setup mode and I was able to change the temperature setting to 99.5 but the instructions don't tell how to get out of setup mode. The change won't take effect until I can so if someone has the answer I'd appreciate it.
I'm sitting here looking at $200 worth of ruined turkey eggs so there's no hurry.

 

[Ironsights]

I did contact incubator warehouse about 3 hours ago so to be fair they haven't had much time to respond to my email.

 

[Ironsights]

I did contact incubator warehouse about 3 hours ago so to be fair they haven't had much time to respond to my email.

They sent an email offering the instructions but didn't mention the fact that the temperature spiked to 108 degrees.

 

[coleco]

It says the controller comes pre set to 99.5 degrees so what a crazy thing to have it reset to 108.

Does it display the set point and the actual temp?

Is there any possibility that the incubator just needs more ability to release heat or something is causing the heat to rise in addition to the heating element?

I realized that this was posted almost a week ago, I'm also interested in learning about what was going on. I had never researched this type of controller and i calculated forever to get on/off thermostats to preform at their optimum for me but to use proportional thermostat would have saved me so much work lol.

 

[Ironsights]

It says the controller comes pre set to 99.5 degrees so what a crazy thing to have it reset to 108.

Does it display the set point and the actual temp? 

Is there any possibility that the incubator just needs more ability to release heat or something is causing the heat to rise in addition to the heating element?

I realized that this was posted almost a week ago, I'm also interested in learning about what was going on.  I had never researched this type of controller and i calculated forever to get on/off thermostats to preform at their optimum for me but to use proportional thermostat would have saved me so much work lol.

It worked perfectly for a couple months. Temperatures very steady, 99.5. I was using incubator warehouses 175 watt cartridge heater which is a lot but the proportional thermostat and a fan worked very well. Then came the temperature problem and it's done it twice. It ruined all the eggs so I had to toss them. There were no power spikes or outages. I've not heard of anyone else having this problem so I can't say either way. I always get the unique one.

I'll probably take it out and go with a small fan and wafer thermostat.
I have a hatcher (granted its smaller) with a bimetal thermostat, 75 watt bulb and the fan from a styrofoam bator and it's rock steady. Hard to find the perfect adjustment but once you get it set it stays set.

It does display the temp setting and current setting (on different displays).

 

[coleco]

I use a 100 watt cartridge heater that i purchased online for 4$ connected to a dimmer, i dimmed the heating element to where it's doesnt go above like 114 degrees. That allowed me to successfully keep my temperature from fluctuating too much (or at least within acceptable levels for me.

I used 2 cheap temp controllers so i can overlap the heating and cooling if need be, if it gets too hot the little cooling fan dumps the air from the top.

I guess you could do something similar with a cheap controller and have a limit set. as a backup to cut power to the burner if it gets above 100.

 

[Ironsights]

 I use a 100 watt cartridge heater that i purchased online for 4$ connected to a dimmer,  i dimmed the heating element to where it's doesnt go above like 114 degrees. That allowed me to successfully keep my temperature from fluctuating too much (or at least within acceptable levels for me.

I used 2 cheap temp controllers so i can overlap the heating and cooling if need be, if it gets too hot the little cooling fan dumps the air from the top.

I guess you could do something similar with a  cheap controller and have a limit set. as a backup to cut power to the burner if it gets above 100.

Good idea. I'll just get a wafer therm and put it inline. Thanks

 

[coleco]

Awesome that will give you a rock solid setup. Thank you for giving me the knowledge to look up proportional thermostats. I may try the osPID (open source pid) built on the arduino platform next. http://www.ospid.com/blog/aaaaand-were-back/back-in-stock/