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Ill let you deside If I fit the bill. I have had 2 years of construction tech in high-school which was 90% electrical. Wired several houses. Half my collage time was electronics an wiring. Working as a firemen for 13 years I took every fire related class that was offered in the state. I also drug every bit of information I could get out of the state fire Marchall at every fire he investigated a fire here.
As I said, every time you put electricity somewhere there is some fire danger. Without knowing the wattage, a crock pot has pretty much the same set up as a cheep incubator inside it. It also has to be tested to the fail point. If it cant be ran 24/7 and fail in a safe manner it would not get UL approved. If the outside is not getting to hot I say its safer than the foam incubators we all leave running in our houses all the time. They have an open element that gets several hundred degrees hanging an inch under a flammable foam case. My only issue is weather the case of the crock pot gets to hot which can only be known by running it. None of us can rate that issue from our keyboard. Its really about the same as putting a bulb in a cookie tin. Judge your risk an make an informed decision. We have to do that with every thing we do. Even something as simple as the "deep litter method" has a fire hazard risk to it. My barn may burn down from that tomorrow, ya never know.
Ill let you deside If I fit the bill. I have had 2 years of construction tech in high-school which was 90% electrical. Wired several houses. Half my collage time was electronics an wiring. Working as a firemen for 13 years I took every fire related class that was offered in the state. I also drug every bit of information I could get out of the state fire Marchall at every fire he investigated a fire here.
As I said, every time you put electricity somewhere there is some fire danger. Without knowing the wattage, a crock pot has pretty much the same set up as a cheep incubator inside it. It also has to be tested to the fail point. If it cant be ran 24/7 and fail in a safe manner it would not get UL approved. If the outside is not getting to hot I say its safer than the foam incubators we all leave running in our houses all the time. They have an open element that gets several hundred degrees hanging an inch under a flammable foam case. My only issue is weather the case of the crock pot gets to hot which can only be known by running it. None of us can rate that issue from our keyboard. Its really about the same as putting a bulb in a cookie tin. Judge your risk an make an informed decision. We have to do that with every thing we do. Even something as simple as the "deep litter method" has a fire hazard risk to it. My barn may burn down from that tomorrow, ya never know.
