Second homemade incubator attempt......pics

barkerbeau

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Oct 29, 2011
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a few months ago i cruised this site and got ideas from several of the homemade incubators. I built one from an old ice chest that worked better than i could hope for. So far it has hatched 11/12 eggs on first hatch. 8/10 on second hatch. and currently has 40 quail eggs due to hatch in a few days. Well, that got my confidence up and i tried it again. This time i cruised this site again and made a large cabinet with a false back. Im showing off a little bit but I am also asking if anyone can see any glaring mistakes I made that i missed. rough specs are.
36" high, 16" wide, 16" deep.
false back 2" from the back to allow air flow opened about 2" at the bottom for airflow
120mm computer fan blowing into the false back with the top heated by at top 100 watt bulb.
i got some pictures of both bators but since this is my first time posting pics....im hoping i get this right

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Looks good, right now Im working on a small fidge, converting it into a incubator, with false back, & thinking about useing the heating element out of a 1602n hovabator insteed of the light bulb setup, & useing a wafer thermomstat, anyone ever used this type of heating element in a bator this size, I tried it once & it worked good in a wine cooler.
 
The incubator looks great.
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My husband wants to build me a large one like yours, but my question is how well does the light bulb on the top work? Since heat rises would it would better on the bottom?
 
Thats why you put a false back in it, that fan draws the hot air in at the top & blows it out the bottom so the air is never setteled its always moveing.
 
150 watt bulb only gets temp to 92. What other budget options for heat source? More lights? Also, I live in south louisiana so humidity is not a problem. Also, I have temp fluctuations from 92 on top shelf and 89 on the bottom. Could this be from too much or not enough airflow?
 

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