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Old 04-24-04, 05:22 PM   #1
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My new incubator

It's taken ages for me to post this pic, but better late than never. Below is my new incubator, built by none other than Retic (Phil). It measures 48x24x24. As you can see, it has sliding glass doors, with extra overlap to retain both heat and humidity, a Helix DBS-1000 recessed into to the front to control my heat, and a dimmer with LED for the fan, which will circulate the 100% relative humidity air. Unfortunately, this pic is the only one I have, and as you can see, it is not completed in this one, with the edging yet to be added. I can reach my incubation temps of 90 deg. within minutes, and maintain it indefinitely, with no hot spots. Humidity is also maintained at 100% indefinitely. Big thanks to Phil for building me a moisture-impervious incubator, that works as great as it looks.
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Old 04-24-04, 06:04 PM   #2
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Pretty sweet man! So with any luck you'll hatch some ghost in there right?
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Jack took his first meal since he's been here. He wouldn't take anything but live.
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Old 04-24-04, 06:07 PM   #3
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Trevor, no worries, he started on live for me too, but was eating f/t when he went off-feed. And yes, my female burgundy ghost ovulated a week or so ago, and I'm also expecting some killer pastels and some 'top-secret' clutches.....
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some secret clutches.....
I hate secrets! I'll be into pastels next year too. A buddy of mine bought an adult male and we're pairing it with all my females!
2006 will be a good ball year for me.
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what sort of fan do you use with a dimmer without destroying the fan?
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Old 04-25-04, 09:45 AM   #6
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The one I have. I'm not sure what it is, but man is it heavy for a small thing.
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the fan is a 110vlt. from radio shack turned upside down to blow the hot air around the incubator. glad to like it mykee, hope you have great success with it. Thanks Phil
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that is one of the best lookiing incubator ive seen

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Amd it's mine, all mine muahhhaaahhhaaahhh!!!!!
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retic, those radio shack fans can be controlled by a dimmer? Is it one of the computer sized fans?
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ya but computer fans are usually 12vlt tho, they will not work on a dimmer and will not last as long, its better to use 110vlt fan they are 14.99 each at radio shack, also they have way more air flow than a 12vlt. hope this helps you out, also when you use a dimmer on a fan its best to let it wind out all the way then back it off as desired usually around 3/4
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hm... here's the story: I have a computer sized fan, but it's the sort you'd see in radio shack (called Tandy electronics, here) that's been rigged up for mains power (240v here). Probably similar to the ones you've described. When I've used it in my incubator in the past, it tended to heat up the incubator (it produced a bit of heat on its own) and needed to be linked up to a thermostat.


Here's the issue part of the story: I use a dimming thermostat on my incubator and have been told that I can't link a fan to the same thermostat for it needs to be set up with its own on/off thermostat.
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You can't really dim AC induction fans which is what we're talking about with the radio shack type.
Disrupting the phase much more than 10 or 20% will cause them to stall.
You might slow it down a bit, but it will stall out quite easily and be suceptable to stopping after even short power failures.
It's better to simply get a fan of the correct CFM and run it continually across line. You'd want about 25 to 32 CFM for that cubic foot space
And why would you want 100% humidity in your incubator? Its unnessesary and simply rusts and corrodes all the components.
Eggs should be put in secondary containers with the appropriate moist egg media, or a bare container within a container of water if you're using the new non media approach.
Keeping the moisture where the eggs are and out of the temp controlled cabinet is really the way to go, and will prevent damage to the cabinet and the components within.
The eggs need to go in separate containers anyway, to prevent the babies from escaping, so it makes no sense to have high humidity throughout the enclosure.
The unit looks great.... very similar to the mine in fact. I have a closet full of them
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Great post Stockwell! Thanks for the info!
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Old 04-26-04, 09:24 AM   #15
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Roy, that's exactly what I'll be doing. Though everything in the incubator has been sealed for water-resistance, I will stil be using individual rubbermaids inside the incubator for my substrate and eggs. Thanks for the advice.
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