Is this a good incubator or did I made a mistake?

[silkiechicken]

Speaking about humidity... I don't monitor it or raise it at the end. Just sits around 50-60 the entire time, with some days in the 30's when I let my tray dry out if I feel the air cells are not growing fast enough. Temp regulation is much more important.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Heres the pictures.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...1voaxr4%3D&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MEWNX:IT


Now it works.... I think.

 

[pascopol]

I do not want to hurt anybody's feelings, but I would not pay over 300 bucks for bator like this.

Cabinet looks solid and nicely finished, but heating with only one bulb close to upper egg level and then lower eggs level being farther from single bulb on side wall is rather primitive solution for a "cabinet incubator".

Upper eggs will be hotter due to bulb radiated heat, and lower eggs are shielded from the bulb by upper eggs. One fan will not make up for this basic design flaw.

Cabinet incubators have a wall dividing heating compartment from incubation, then 1 or more fans blowing the air forces the air to go down through assuring even temperature distribution for 3 or more shelves.

I bet this bator will run a significant temp difference in temperatures between upper and lower shelf and through various spots on turners.

This perhaps can be fixed but some work and desing changes will be required.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

I disagree. This incubator has the same top shelf devider as all the other big incubators. They all are colder at the bottom than the top. I also think its a flaw but no worse than all the others. The placement an heat type is not wrong, just different. The light side will be slightly warmer than the thermostat side when the light is on but probably not enough to be an issue.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Looking at the pictures again an can see the fan in the back actually blows down so the heat from the light would be pulled to the center before being pushed down threw the incubator. Should be pretty stable side to side an probably top to bottom set up that way.

 

[flyweed]

I gotta agree with Pascopol....you could buy the materials and build this exact same setup for probably less than $100.00....a sheet of 3/4" CDX plywood will run ya about $27.00, the GQF thermostat under $30..a light socket, light bulb, fan and a few generic egg turners and you'd be all set.

Dan

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Could you build an incubator like that for around $100? Maybe, If you assume you already have a fully equipped woodworking shop, cabinet making skills, electrical skills an a understanding of thermodynamics an incubation.

In reality tools cost money. Time is money. Knowledge is money. Skill is money. Because of this everything cost more than the sum of there parts. Otherwise a new car would be around $200.

Besides, somethings worth is always a combination of what someone is willing to sell it for an what someone is willing to buy it for. So just by the fact that bids pushed it to sell for over $300 proves its worth is over $300.

 

[aprophet]

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you need at least AC plywood cdx delaminates horribly with the least little bit of moisture. The top shelf is too small for my tastes need to be 3-5" taller. I am using heating elements and light bulbs in different bators I do not see any difference at all. Except light bulbs are cheaper and readily available see how that works when your heating element burns out on Saturday night Me I just go to the store and buy a light bulb

. With a fan of the right size blowing all the time there is no layering of the air ( hot on top cold on bottom) most bators I have seen draw the heated air over the fan you would think this would shorten the life of the fan I turned the fan around on my latest bator so the fan blows across the heat source it will be neat to see if it matters I use a lot of thrift store cast off for materials so fans here might cost me 2-$3

 

[aprophet]

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Using angle brackets and such it can be built not too cabinet grade specs but a much more utilitarian grade and it still works just fine if someone wants furniture my way is not acceptable me I just want to hatch not Impress

 

[Liamm_1]

You do realize this is a home made job built out of plywood?

ETA: I posted this without reading through the entire thread first

Am I reading the list of 7 bids correctly? One person bid it from $265 to $320 by themselves?