Temps are not adding up.

[lawman7]

Hey everyone. I need some advise. I bought a new Turn X 7 incubator and have it all pluged in and checking the temps. This is a spendy tabletop incubator. It had 2 therm's with it both are suppost to be highly accurate and upon opening it one of them (the wet bulb theromo) fell out and broke. I still have the other one and it is in good shape. Anyway, I decided to check it with 2 other's I use in my other incubator and here is the deal... The mercury one that came with the TX7 has a reading of 102 degrees and the egg o meter reads 96 and the GQF reads 97. They have been in since yesterday and all holding steady. I don't know what to think. Any adcise would be a huge help!!!! Thanks.... Jim.....

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Hey everyone. I need some advise. I bought a new Turn X 7 incubator and have it all pluged in and checking the temps. This is a spendy tabletop incubator. It had 2 therm's with it both are suppost to be highly accurate and upon opening it one of them (the wet bulb theromo) fell out and broke. I still have the other one and it is in good shape. Anyway, I decided to check it with 2 other's I use in my other incubator and here is the deal... The mercury one that came with the TX7 has a reading of 102 degrees and the egg o meter reads 96 and the GQF reads 97. They have been in since yesterday and all holding steady. I don't know what to think. Any adcise would be a huge help!!!! Thanks.... Jim.....

Take the mercury one and test it. Get a glass of ice put some cold water in it let it come to temp for about three minutes and put teh mercury thermometer in it. It should read 32F. That way you'll know how accurate that one is and can use it to compare to the digitals.

 

[lawman7]

Ok. AmyLynn. I will try that. I have heard of it before but was not sure how long to leave the ice in the cup of water before I put the thermo in. I am gonna try to hatch some very expensive eggs again this year. Prairie chicken. They are 250 a dozen. tryed last year with 1 out of 12 hatch.. Had a styrofome inci last year and wanted to do it right this time.. I tried them in the styrofome one ad the didgitals were spot on. The new mercury one threw me off and now think I know why I had such a bad hatch last season....

 

[lawman7]

Well that idea won't work. Thermometer only goes down to 75 degrees...

 

[Drewnkat]

How high does it go? Can you test it in boiling water? It should register 212 degrees in boiling water.

 

[lazy gardener]

Test it against a thermometer designed to take children's temps. Most are advertised to be accurate to .2 degree. And you can test it IN THE RANGE that you'll be using it at. IMO, a test at freezing, or at boiling even if accurate at either of those extremes (while recommended by the experts) may have some drift of accuracy at the 100* temp we're looking at.

 

[AmyLynn2374]

Ok. AmyLynn. I will try that. I have heard of it before but was not sure how long to leave the ice in the cup of water before I put the thermo in. I am gonna try to hatch some very expensive eggs again this year. Prairie chicken. They are 250 a dozen. tryed last year with 1 out of 12 hatch.. Had a styrofome inci last year and wanted to do it right this time.. I tried them in the styrofome one ad the didgitals were spot on. The new mercury one threw me off and now think I know why I had such a bad hatch last season....

Well that idea won't work. Thermometer only goes down to 75 degrees...

It's one one those tiny short ones. It makes sense they are incubator thermometers and you don't incubate that low. With $250 invested in a dozen eggs, your best bet would be to take another $20 and buy the Brinsea spot check thermometer and be on the safe side.

 

[lawman7]

I do have it also. But it will not fit into any of the vent holes. I wonder if I could just put the whole unit in the incubator or would that mess up the reading??

 

[AmyLynn2374]

I do have it also. But it will not fit into any of the vent holes. I wonder if I could just put the whole unit in the incubator or would that mess up the reading??

Wouldn't hurt to try.