that is bad luck . Sorry you went through all that .Lots of good homemade incubators out there . Been through the losing turner motors . Both in my cabinets and my little Styrofoam's . Motors you can get from incubator warehouse . They also have build kits . Or you can also get turner motors off ebay .This was a forced air incubator that came with an auto turner, that the AT went kaput within the first 24 hours.... and this was our 3rd incubator on this batch! Definitely having bad luck with incubators.... grrrrr..... so, we're going to build a bator... but just need to get through this hatch!!!
Setting lower makes a lot of sense.... definitely gonna let the tinys have a couple of days extra.