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Sportsman is an excellent design wheter you like it or not, Mr Dickey who makes famous handcrafted bators made of wood did not try to outsmart Sportsman desing, he copied Sportsman making it of wood not lousy particle board.
Speaking of wafer thermostats, they are passe. Old technology. Vulnerable to changing atmospheric pressure.
Would you bother with oil fired bator (XIX century) technology? It belongs to museum. So does wafer thermostat.
For about $25.00 you can get plug and play no wiring necessary very reliable thermostat: Repti zoo med 500R
http://www.google.com/products/cata...og_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ8wIwAg#
I have 2 of them, they outperform any "electronic" or no "electronic" or wafer or water heater thermostats, or any thermostat used in styrobators.
Once you get one of those "you will never go back"
I even improved commercial bator performance (Brower top hatch TH120) using this thermostat.
Again no wiring necessary.
Also I found using those thermostats (I have 2 now) no matter what the room temp is even if your bator has not the best insulation, Repti 500R will cut the temp off at set temperature. No more spikes and cooked embrios.
Will also cut in within .3 to .5 F range (depending on your bator design).
Nedless to say it will outperfoem in my case Brinsea 20 thermostat under vastly varying room temperatures.
Meaning if room temp is stable 5 deg F difference, Brinsea will keep set rock solid temperature.
But if my room temperature varies 10 degrees F (common in Fl winter) the Brinsea will go down little bit with the room, but Repti 500 will keep oscilating between 99.5 - 100 or whatever I set it for no matter what the Room temperature is.
I didnt say sportsman was not a good incubator. I have one. But there not perfect. If I built my own to sell they would not be a sportsman clone. But then Im not the person using this thread to hate in someone elses product. This whole idea that if your not using the latest greatest electronic doohickey then you have junk is a load of hooey. You can build a great incubator useing a wafer. I have. You can also build a great incubator using a water heater thermostat. I have done that to. (Not that I would build an sell one with a WHT.) I have also built them using close to a dozen other thermostats from home built to the repti 500 an it predecessors. I actually do have a lantern powered incubator in the works to. Why? Because I dont assume anything is better or worse, right or wrong, works or don't until I have done it my self.
No incubator is perfect, agreed, you said you can design and build better incubator than Sportsman, does it have just 1 lightbulb to power it?
Sorry, Mrs Dickey has more credibility since he did not try to reinvent the wheel, he just built the best quality bator he could using best material (wood) and his bators are tops in the business.
I understand there is still demand for wafer thermostats since there are some hardcore oldtimers who refuse to use anything better than it.
But current technology do not use wafers to control temperature in the space shuttle, or residential airconditioning, or ovens, or ranges, or microwawes etc.
Why?
Cause there is better and cheaper technology available now.
Openminded people know that and take advantage of it.
Sportsman is an excellent design wheter you like it or not, Mr Dickey who makes famous handcrafted bators made of wood did not try to outsmart Sportsman desing, he copied Sportsman making it of wood not lousy particle board.
Speaking of wafer thermostats, they are passe. Old technology. Vulnerable to changing atmospheric pressure.
Would you bother with oil fired bator (XIX century) technology? It belongs to museum. So does wafer thermostat.
For about $25.00 you can get plug and play no wiring necessary very reliable thermostat: Repti zoo med 500R
http://www.google.com/products/cata...og_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ8wIwAg#
I have 2 of them, they outperform any "electronic" or no "electronic" or wafer or water heater thermostats, or any thermostat used in styrobators.
Once you get one of those "you will never go back"
I even improved commercial bator performance (Brower top hatch TH120) using this thermostat.
Again no wiring necessary.
Also I found using those thermostats (I have 2 now) no matter what the room temp is even if your bator has not the best insulation, Repti 500R will cut the temp off at set temperature. No more spikes and cooked embrios.
Will also cut in within .3 to .5 F range (depending on your bator design).
Nedless to say it will outperfoem in my case Brinsea 20 thermostat under vastly varying room temperatures.
Meaning if room temp is stable 5 deg F difference, Brinsea will keep set rock solid temperature.
But if my room temperature varies 10 degrees F (common in Fl winter) the Brinsea will go down little bit with the room, but Repti 500 will keep oscilating between 99.5 - 100 or whatever I set it for no matter what the Room temperature is.
I didnt say sportsman was not a good incubator. I have one. But there not perfect. If I built my own to sell they would not be a sportsman clone. But then Im not the person using this thread to hate in someone elses product. This whole idea that if your not using the latest greatest electronic doohickey then you have junk is a load of hooey. You can build a great incubator useing a wafer. I have. You can also build a great incubator using a water heater thermostat. I have done that to. (Not that I would build an sell one with a WHT.) I have also built them using close to a dozen other thermostats from home built to the repti 500 an it predecessors. I actually do have a lantern powered incubator in the works to. Why? Because I dont assume anything is better or worse, right or wrong, works or don't until I have done it my self.
No incubator is perfect, agreed, you said you can design and build better incubator than Sportsman, does it have just 1 lightbulb to power it?
Sorry, Mrs Dickey has more credibility since he did not try to reinvent the wheel, he just built the best quality bator he could using best material (wood) and his bators are tops in the business.
I understand there is still demand for wafer thermostats since there are some hardcore oldtimers who refuse to use anything better than it.
But current technology do not use wafers to control temperature in the space shuttle, or residential airconditioning, or ovens, or ranges, or microwawes etc.
Why?
Cause there is better and cheaper technology available now.
Openminded people know that and take advantage of it.
