The spinny thingy was stuck.
Thanks Cowchick! Fingers crossed cuz I'm going to start it up today and see if it holds. Our TSC doesn't have any. That's the first place I checked. I have a feeling it will be okay. It was pretty dusty in the bearings part of the thing. (technical terms are not in my vocab.)
Thanks! Very good to know.
I cover the back half of mine with a towel and put it in a room that stays as close to 70 degrees as possible and I don't have very much temp. fluctuation at all in my still air LG. I've recently switched to the dry hatch method where you keep the humidity low until lockdown and then you raise the humidity to 60% or so. I've just had the best hatch I've ever had. Before I started using the dry hatch method I was getting a lot of dead in shell chicks...3-8 per hatch and with this hatch not one single dead in shell baby!Now that winter is here some people have asked about keeping the LG temperature more stable. This is what I do. I put a towel over the incubator and it hasn't affected my hatches at all. This is when our power went out last winter and the temp outside was in the 30's. When we lost power, I was 2 weeks into incubation. The temp in the incubator was 78 degrees when I discovered it. I put the incubator on a battery pack with an inverter and brought the temp back up. I was really worried but I still had good hatches.
