Still incubation

[myers4]

I have a little giant still air incubator with a digital thermometer. It is very touchy. Any advice on regulating it better?

 

[scflock]

I have a little giant still air incubator with a digital thermometer. It is very touchy. Any advice on regulating it better?

AmyLynn will see this in a minute. She can help you out. She's pretty good with the LG

 

[dheltzel]

1) add a 12 volt fan from an old computer and an old cell phone (or other device) charger.

2) replace the thermostat with an STC-1000 digital unit for about $20.

 

[sideWing]

1) add a 12 volt fan from an old computer and an old cell phone (or other device) charger.

2) replace the thermostat with an STC-1000 digital unit for about $20.

I would like to know more. How does the STC connect to the heating device?

 

[dheltzel]

I use one in a cooler that I converted to a hatcher. I mounted it in a electrical box (like they use inside walls to hold electric sockets or a light switch. You would need to remove the original thermostat and wire the existing heating element directly to the terminals of the STC-1000, passing the wires through the back of the electric box. Place the sensor from the STC-1000 inside the incubator where the eggs will be, fixing it at approximately the height of the top of the eggs and under the fan, if possible.

Doing this will drastically increase the accuracy of the incubator. I would also invest in a good thermometer or 2, so you can check the temperature independently and adjust the setting of the STC-1000.

 

[WalnutHill]

The STC1000 is a relay switching device. You connect 120v AC across the inputs, then a load across the outputs. You connect all the neutrals together, and only the hot is switched by the STC1000.

There are also replacement solid state controls for foam incubators.

http://www.rockytopgen.com/catalog/incubatorbrooderparts.html offers a couple of retrofit boards.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

AmyLynn will see this in a minute. She can help you out. She's pretty good with the LG

Thanks....lol Mine isn't a digital though. I am still stuck in the olden days with my basic lg (plus the fan kit). Is it the 9300 or 10300 that you have?

 

[jlbiggs]

I have a lot of issues with my still air staying regulated also. Very frustrating!.... But in all honestly, my very first hatch last year the first week had a spike to 115 for possibly 8 hours. Figured for sure my duckies were goners, and especially figured it was be done after a drop down to 80 after a power outage, believe it or not I have 100% hatch on my very first hatch ever!! I couldn't have been happier. This years first hatch I had the same issues and I just constantly smudge it up or down little by little when needed and I had 36 chicks out of 40 hatch. But I'm thinking about upgrading to the digital with auto turner and using my current still air has a hatcher. After these last two years I'm a lot more faithful in chicks hardyness.

 

[myers4]

Mine is a 9300

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Mine is a 9300

The one with the stupid probe. Lots of people have problems with that. I've seen where it was attatched to a golf ball (or other object) to be stable at egg level and held in one place as it seems the movement of that probe has a lot to do with the heat fluctuations. But I myself have no hands on experience with that model. Just what I read on the little giant experiment thread.