Incuview Incubator

[aart]

Quote: That would be ideal...but what do you have on hand that you are positive is 100F?

I used to work in the engineering field using lots of instruments that had to be calibrated,
there were many jokes about the standards they used for master comparison....
...tho it was serious business, because we were collecting data for the FDA and we had to cite our standards source.

Testing at 212f and 32f is easily acquired at home and better than nothing...but you have to use some common sense and not expect exact.

 

[Storybook Farm]

I am curious why you would be thinking about submerging the probe(re-read-----probably for comparing to another one)???

In my opinion----if you are checking/comparing----do so at 100 degree's not 32 degree's or 220 degree's---could be off with each other on the high's or lows---compare where they will be staying at-----app 100 degree's.

Well, this device is a thermometer and a hydrometer, so I want to know about the accuracy of both. In order to test a thermometer, as I understand it, you plunge the probe into boiling water or near freezing water. Either way, that probe is going to get wet, unless you shield it with, say, a baggie. My other thermometer has a submersible probe. I already knew this because we've used in our fish tank for years. I needed to know if this combination device was likewise.

I understand that the test for hydrometers doesn't require submersion. It was only for the thermometers side of things that I wanted to know. Clear as mud?

So, in order to compare at a hundred degrees, I need a control. Obviously the control for a thermometer can easily be 32 degrees using ice, or 212 degrees Fahrenheit using boiling water. What control would you suggest for 100 degrees?

 

[PD-Riverman]

That would be ideal...but what do you have on hand that you are positive is 100F?

Testing at 212f and 32f is easily acquired at home and better than nothing...but you have to use some common sense and not expect exact.

So, in order to compare at a hundred degrees, I need a control. Obviously the control for a thermometer can easily be 32 degrees using ice, or 212 degrees Fahrenheit using boiling water. What control would you suggest for 100 degrees?

If a thermometer is perfect at at freezing----would they also be perfect at 212?? Probably not or at 100 is what I am saying. Being I am going to compare I would want to know how they compare at 100----I do not care how they read at 32 or 212. I know you know Aart I have hatched 1000's and 1000's of eggs and have Never tested my thermometers at 32 or 212. I put them(2 or 3, what ever I got) in a heated incubator side by side----give them a little time---I then choose the middle reading one(as long as they are all close--with-in a couple degree's). I set the incubator up with the "Middle" one. I hatch fresh eggs. If they hatch to on time---good--I would say its Right. To early or to late I make a note on it----(thermometer is reading to high or to low)the next hatch I adjust the temp in the incubator a little to make the eggs hatch closer on time. Once right, I mark it---I put all my thermometers around this one in a heated incubator---mark them with +1/2 or -1/2 or -1 or +1 1/2, etc, etc so I will know how to set-up the next incubator using one of them. This is not what a engineer would do but this is what I do to make my eggs hatch on time. Again I do not care what they read at 32 or 212---I do not hatch at either of those temp!!

You know 1/2 of a degree can make eggs hatch in a different day, so how is being right at 32 or 212 going to make it right at 100???

 

[Leahs Mom]

@PD-Riverman and @aart

Do either of you own the incuview? If so, do you recommend? What has been your experience?

 

[aart]

Quote: Not sure it would, never said it would...just an exercise.
I know I can't test accurately, don't have a 100F standard/control, so I played with it<shrug>
If i couldhave afforded to buy a human baby thermometer I would have, that's probably the best bet for testing incubator thermometers.

I tested my candy thermometers at 212F when I was making candy and chocolate,(chocolate can be touchier than hatching eggs)they were 5 and 10 off.
They were also 5 and 10 off at 32F....so I assumed they would be 5 and 10 off at 100.
I put the candy thermometers and 3 others in the incubator and observed for a couple days, recorded readings and averaged things out as I took readings during incubation.
I made a call on what the readings really were and went from there, had pretty good hatches.

I kind of chuckle on hatching threads when folks talk about 0.x differences in temps.

 

[aart]

@PD-Riverman and @aart

Do either of you own the incuview? If so, do you recommend? What has been your experience?

Nope. Would love to....can't afford it tho......only have a used LG.

 

[PD-Riverman]

Not sure it would, never said it would...just an exercise.
I know I can't test accurately, don't have a 100F standard/control, so I played with it<shrug>
If i couldhave afforded to buy a human baby thermometer I would have, that's probably the best bet for testing incubator thermometers.

I tested my candy thermometers at 212F when I was making candy and chocolate,(chocolate can be touchier than hatching eggs)they were 5 and 10 off.
They were also 5 and 10 off at 32F....so I assumed they would be 5 and 10 off at 100.
I put the candy thermometers and 3 others in the incubator and observed for a couple days, recorded readings and averaged things out as I took readings during incubation.
I made a call on what the readings really were and went from there, had pretty good hatches.

I kind of chuckle on hatching threads when folks talk about 0.x differences in temps.

I have a expensive digital thermometer with a probe----This thermometer is pretty dead-on at 100 with my inubator----just as a "Test" I stuck the probe in between 2 pieces of ice----it was still dropping when I quit at 20 degrees F----how could someone test a thermometer for accurancy when the ice is probably 0 to 10 degree's F?

 

[PD-Riverman]

@PD-Riverman and @aart

Do either of you own the incuview? If so, do you recommend? What has been your experience?

I don't, I think the control/heat is a Plus. I have 2 cabinets that have a control made by the same company looks the same on the outside and they work good. I think the rest of it looks cheap, but I am thinking the clear dome might stop people from opening it during hatching. I am the wrong one to ask because I can and did build my own---so I would Never buy one. I do not know the total price on one but I built my cabinet incubator for around what one cost and a cabinet hatcher for about 1/3rd or less of what one cost. You will have to ask people that have had them for some time and have hatched alot---to see how they are holding up. I have had good luck with a Little Giant which I added a fan to.

 

[aart]

Quote: My LG has fan and turner.

The Incuview's clear dome is the attraction for me...big time.....I've followed this thread from the get go and have to say the company's service seems exeptional.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Does anyone know what to set the humidity to in a plastic incubator for chicken eggs