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 Post subject: Incubator temperature spikes
PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 7:41 am 
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Just a warning to anyone running their incubator over the the warmer months.
I have tried to explain this elsewhere before but people still can't seem to accept why incubator temperatures spike so high on hot days.
A fan in an incubator is a heating device. Almost all the electricity it uses ends up as heat in the incubator. The science of this is simple and well accepted. Electric motors are inefficient and generate a lot of heat to begin with and even the friction of the moving air eventually creates heat. If the fan in a smallish incubator draws say 40 watts you can be sure that it would have the heating equivalent of an electric element of at least 35 watts. Add to this the considerable amount of heat created by developing embryos in later stages of incubation and it is no wonder temperatures climb to the mid forties.
On a hot day it is best to turn off the fan and open the incubator lid.


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 Post subject: Re: Incubator temperature spikes
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Good advice doggo makes perfect sense to me :-D




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 Post subject: Re: Incubator temperature spikes
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I have found the same on 2 occasions mine has gone to 105 but lucky the eggs still did hatch


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 Post subject: Re: Incubator temperature spikes
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Great advice. I've had to actually turn my incubators off completely over a couple of the days where temps reached 38 degrees inside the house where the incubators are and the incubators were overheating.


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I was told to over come the problem run the incubator in the house at a constant 24dg but to do that I would need to run the air con and the power bill would be higher than the national debt


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I have trouble with my bellsouth 100 it jumps up high in warm weather and its hard to control that so I turn it off also


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 Post subject: Re: Incubator temperature spikes
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Trouble is you would have to be there to turn it off and back on again when it needs to?


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 Post subject: Re: Incubator temperature spikes
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andy nelson wrote:
Trouble is you would have to be there to turn it off and back on again when it needs to?

Yes that's true but it would not be hard to run the power supply to the incubator through a separate thermostat set at say 38 or 39 degrees. That would at least shut down the fan.


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Sorry not a sparky or even a home handyman so how do you do that please?


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 Post subject: Re: Incubator temperature spikes
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This would probably do the job http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Digital-Ther ... ffa&_uhb=1
If set at 38c it would cut the power at 39c and switch it back on at 37c. Plug the incubator into the thermostat,place the probe on top of the eggs in a fan forced incubator.
If unsure of any of this it would be best to get someone to set it up for you.


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