New incubator build

[19quail]

Well I have had a pretty good hatch rate with the little giant we started out with. But fiddling constantly with the thing is enough to drive anyone crazy. So I'm blatantly ripping off the JJ design and scaling it down for my needs. We'll see how it ends up working.

Ready for water based polyurethane. 1/2 " ply with a 4" return behind the false wall. Top shelf for water tray. Two shelfs for turner racks or hatching trays. Two fans for redundancy and a single 125 watt cartridge heater and digital thermostat from Incubator warehouse. I hope it's enough, I just want to be sure if the thermostat sticks on that it can't start a fire!

Keith

 

[19quail]

Parts are here!

 

[HatchCraft]

Looks good. You are off to a good start. I am rather skeptical of the cartridge heater. I am sure it gets more than hot enough, but may lack the surface area to heat a large volume of air efficiently .

 

[19quail]

We'll its in the testing phase now. I cut out a 4x4" hole behind the false wall and placed the thermostat there.

Then followed the instructions for wiring up the turner, fans, and heating element (very easy btw). Drilled a hole to run the temp sensor on top of the egg turner. And hung the heating element in front of the fans with some bailing wire.

The thermostat took a little fiddling with to get it to hold temp well. It wanted to rocket past the set point and not come back down. I think the heating element gets very hot without much power to it. Turning down the power to the element at the set point solved the problem.

Front view

End result of a few days work and lots of help from the folks here and elsewhere.

Keith

 

[19quail]

Now I'm stuck with the incubator of my dreams and no eggs to hatch until the JMF American Pharoahs grow up. That'll be at least another 6-8 weeks.
I sure would like to see some "tank" eggs in there wouldn't one of you.

Keith

 

[19quail]

We have light!!

And bumped the temp for the bobs.

 

[shmooborp]

Did any Hatches turn out on this?

 

[IncubatorWarehouse.com]

Great Work!