Hi Charles. Howzit goin'.
Well we had prob (5-6 degree temp variation) with our thermostat on our home made "cupboard" incubator, and have put off buying a new one until today. Yay. Problem is, the previous one was a plug'n'go job, the new one is a wafer capsule and micro switch - hmmmm - totally lost here. Have a friend who has made their own with the same set up. Any ideas? Or should I just ask them.
We have 2 small holes at one end to push the thermostat sensor through into the incubator space, the other to push the thermometer sensor through, that's on the far side of the incubator. The other side has the light/moisture/fan, which pushes the heated air through the incubator space. Here's the link to piccy's. viewtopic.php?f=39&t=5281&start=20
OK questions . . .
1. Does the actual wafer need to go into the incubator space, or outside.
2. What does the micro-switch do?
3. Does the microswitch detect the temp. and switch of/on accordingly?
4. How do we join the wafer capsule and the microswitch together? There are three button thingys on the microswitch.
Eeek, I'm confused. Oh also the guy at Kewpie (where I got the thermostat from) recommended keeping the wafer in the fridge to stop the thermostat wearing out when it wasn't in use, a more steady temperature I'm guessing.
Have been pretty busy with life and haven't had a lot of left over time for chickens - except for collecting eggs of course.
Cheers for now and hope you are well.
Ann
for showing it