To Trust Brinsea Temperature Reading Or Not?

[artathart]

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Unfortunately, I found out that the temp reading for the brinsea was not correct. How? with a brinsea spot check.

I now set my Brinsea at 99.9 in order to get 99.5 on the eggs.

Wow....So it cam set at the wrong temp? Is it easy to adjust it to 99.5 if needed. I sure hope mine is spot on because thats why I ordered it so I could stop worrying about temps all the time. Now I fear I will have the same worries if they are not actually coming preset correctly :-(

 

[pete55]

Hi

Had exactly the same trouble with the Brinsea resulting in new temperature control modules etc. Both the Octogon 20 and 40 were out on the digital readout. I used 4 thermometers which had all been callibrated. One digital, one glass with blue liquid, one mercury in farenheit and one mercury in centigrade.

Only one agreed with the Brinsea digital readout

In the case of the Octogon 40 I even had temperature differences between the 2 trays! Brinsea advised cleaning the fans which had already been done but their engineer told me that their digital readouts were accurate to 0.2C +/-

What I have found is that once they are loaded with eggs then they do begin to settle down and my mercury rod thermometer in centigrade (my most trusted thermometer) now agrees with the Brinsea readout!!!!

It seems the fans do cause some variance when empty but now I use one thermometer (the trusted one) and work from that

Was looking at the R-COM SURO and looks to be excellent value with very good features. Would rather buy more of them than one expensive incubator that fails for valuble eggs.