New Home Incubator...

[aclee]

Eggs were shipped to me accidentially, so we ended up building a really fast incubator with a cooler, a fan, light bulb etc. We just haid our furnace replaced and it came with a new programmable thermostat, so we used the old one as the thermostat for the light. It only goes up to 99 degrees and then it shuts off the light. I bought another little thermostat/humidity thing at Walmart and that is reading the temperature lower than the programmable thermostat is. Right now it seems like the temperature is somewhere between 95/96 and 99 degrees (which is what the programmable is reading) pretty steadily. Humidity is settled between 40-45%...

So I have no idea what temperature is actually correct...if it IS infact only 95-96 degrees in there, will the whole hatch be a bust?

 

[trilyn]

Not necessarily, it just might take longer. They call it a "draggy" hatch.

 

[aprophet]

some of the programable's that I have used at work they have a setup screen while in that screen you can raise or lower the max/min temps and other things as well . if you can find a installers manual for the t-stat you have you might be able to get it to go a little higher.

 

[aclee]

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Yeah, the highest temp it goes to is 99...I guess they figure no one wants there house 100 degrees