I really like my Brinsea. I spent about 3 months reading reviews and talking to people and decided on my Octagon Eco20. I didn't even buy the turner! NO frills, but it works great, and it's no big deal to rock the machine back and forth. You don't have to open the lid to turn eggs. You just rock the machine forward or backward. There are two channels to put water in. You fill up one channel for the first 18 days and then fill up the second channel for the last and lockdown. Doesn't get much easier than that. It says it holds 24 eggs-- and honestly, that's really not that big. Because when it comes time to hatch, I lay them all down sideways and that takes up a LOT of room. Ideally, you'd want to just incubate in the Brinsea and then have another machine to use for hatching. But I do it all in just the one machine. It works fine, but yeah, later on down the road, I can see myself buying another one.
I bought mine for $99! That is really a great deal. First of all, you can combine coupons with Brinsea. Buy it thru their website-- not off eBay or any where else, you won't get that great of a deal, unless it's used. To get it knocked down to around a $100-- go to the Brinsea Facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brinsea-Products-Inc/140621339296778
THEN... sign up for their Newsletter at the top. When you do that, they will give you a coupon. Then they give you coupons when they are running specials... like for Mother's Day, or whatever it might be. Don't sign up for that newsletter UNTIL you are ready to buy, because it will expire in a week or so, and that's it. They list all of their coupons there on FB, then you can combine the two and get it for cheaper. Anyway, that's what I did at xmas this year. The thing they get you on is shipping-- they charge like $20. But still, not too bad, and it's a super easy machine, and I love how easy it is to turn manually, and that it's easy to look into. It also holds temperature and humidity REALLY well. I can't believe how fast it comes back to temperature after you lift the lid. Humidity is slower to rise, BUT, you can spike it with a wet paper towel if you need to. I do that all the time.
This is the one I bought: http://www.brinsea.com/products/octagon20eco.htm
I have a picture-- a bad one, that shows just a portion of my machine. (I was mostly taking it to get a pic of my eggs, and the machine happened to be in the way--
