Need help!! Home made incubator temp is too hot!!

[JFA Consultant]

Where did you not get educated at? "Haters"?, what are you talking about? I was trying to be polite!

Thermodynamic is a fact of nature, taught in High School Physics.

If you are going to give advise you should at least know what you are talking about.

 

[bahamabanty]

I agree a thermostat would help a lot. Without it I find I have to keep an eye on it every couple of hours to avoid temperature spikes above 102 degrees.If you dont have that time get a thermostate.

 

[Aphrael]

There are people who have used a dimmer switch and made it work for them. However, it is going to be far more time consuming and labor intensive. By just setting a dimmer switch, the incubator has no means to react to changes in the external environment, or to changes in the internal environment. (As chicks grow inside, they begin generating their own heat, raising the internal temperatures.) I doubt you could get consistent hatches with this setup. Many people have made water heater thermostats work pretty well. They take a good bit of fiddling to find the right setup for your bator with them though. Set up correctly, I think it would be lightyears better than the dimmer switch. As mentioned above, they can be purchased for under $10. You can look up tutorials for how to set them up in the incubator pages here or by doing a search on YouTube. Someone also mentioned the STC-1000 digital controller. This is what I use and it is a champ. I found a tutorial in the homemade incubator pages for setting it up and it was really quite easy. You can get these from $18-$29 on ebay or amazon.