Please help: emergency reprogramming Genesis 1588

[tadimaali]

Thank you so much, hopefully this will be helpful to other`s as well, who, like me, find it all very confusing at first

I think maybe the manufacturer should include a picture instead of the graphic, to show how the switch is off and on, in case any "slow" person like me gets this incubator, hehe.

 

[adrian]

Hello, I was the poster of that somewhat confusing thread.

I think my switches were put in upside down, because everything is backwards on my machine. I think that's what stumped me... I now have eggs in, setting 3 on, and everything is looking good. I decided setting 3 was safest for me, as it reads anywhere from 99.3 - 100F on different thermometers. It holds steady and what I've noticed about this incubator is that opening the lid doesn't greatly lower the temperature. It gets back up to temperature sometimes within the minute, which is much different from my turbofan model.

However, the crappy little thermometer supplied reads 2 degrees too high. I wouldn't trust it when hatching. (It even says so in the manual - it makes you wonder why they supply such an inaccurate thermometer to begin with if they even know it's bad).

Just so you know, when you have the switches backwards or it is not heating up, it will blink three times every few seconds. I think this is basically because you've turned everything off. It was confusing for me, because my switches said that setting 4 was on - just like that picture supplied. Now that I've worked it all upside down, it works like a dream. Go figure.

 

[tadimaali]

So, if I lower the temp, like the manual says, by 0,5-1 degree with switch 1, and then when I am done, switch on only 4 for operation, like the manual says, then am I on setting 4 ? Or how do you get "setting 3" - I thought you can add or take off the temp (with switching them just like the manual says) and then there is the ready-setting of factory.

Hmm, I thought the confusion was over

I still try to get it right, I did lower it but it keeps climbing up to 101 and even more, no matter what I do (it does heat ok), but maybe I do it wrong - I will each time I want to lower it, swith the 1 only once, not toggle it several times, like in the given example on the manual. Yeah, and the factory thermometer is very off.
And on top of that, I think one side is somewhat hotter (the one away from the thermostat).

I am beginning to wonder, what is more damage to the eggs, me taking off the cover to change the settings or cooking with the 101 temp ... Funny enough, the temp was pretty ok since I put in the last eggs and the bator became full ... Though it was more lower temp when totally empty and rose a little, when half full with eggs. Beginning to think that loading up with eggs will raise temp.

 

[DANNY]

First of all 101 will not cook your eggs and opening the incubator for adjustments will not hurt the either relax. It's pretty simple turn 4 off and turn 3 on. You only need one turned on at a time.

 

[tadimaali]

Ok, thank you again, I`ll try to relax.
I decided to settle with 100.5(6) on the hotter side and 100 on the other, and see what becomes of it.
I have partridge and pheasant in there together, strangely I was told by an old-timer that pheasant needs somewhat hotter temps (not to mention the much higher humidity), but since people here incubate pheasant the same settings as chicken and such, hopefully they`ll be ok.