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Yay! Congrats!!! Note to everyone: Sally is awesome

lol that sounds like me. My DH is very "just wing, it doesn't need to be perfect and it SHOULD work". While I am very precise needs to be exact. I drive him nuts lol. That measurement works for me but Im sure Sallys and others may be slightly different.

So my hatch for my test run cooler eggs is complete. I set 18 eggs, 14 made it to lockdown and 12 hatched, 3 on day 20 and 9 on day 21. I still have the last 2 eggs in the bator just incase on day22 but Im pretty much calling it done. I am very satisfied.

I didn't get an exact measurement of my bottom vent hole but it is roughly 1.25 inches by 4.5-5 inches. again that is roughly. I can go find a tape and actually take a measurement. Ok my vent hole is 1.5 x 5.5

Update on my cabinet cooler incubator. Eggs went into lockdown late last night(night of day 19) and today day 20 ONE chicks just hatched and 4 others have pips. I feel very confident in saying that the cabinet cooler incubator is accurate, reliable and a SUCCESS!!!

My cooler bator eggs go into lockdown today (day 19 one day late). I will keep you posted on the hatch. Im pretty confident they are doing well. I even put eggs that were already incubating in my hovabator into the cooler bator to finish up the incubation process.

Thank You! Marans and Cream Legbar, They lay my most favorite eggs!

I can see how by back ups of everything will come in handy. I think I should buy a few extra things to have on hand just in case.

I candled my cooler bator eggs this morn, today is day 4. 9 light brown eggs were set so I could see best for my test run and 7 of the 9 show veining! I think the other 2 were refrigerator eggs which is why they are showing veining(at least not yet). I had also set Marans eggs in with them...

Oh smart thinking! I just did that and it read 98.8-99.0 Im guessing that's good.

Im gonna go ahead and correct myself from when I said that the walmart acurite thermometer is accurate, well because ITS NOT. I just got my new Brinsea Spot check. I put the probe in through the side vent hole and the cooler was reading 104 Acutrite thermometer was reading 100. I also made...

So I made no further adjustments to the cooler bator after removing the metal tape from the lower shelf in the cooler and my temps seem stable and even. I moved my thermometer around the entire inside of the cooler to get reading and it is reading 100 degrees everywhere, except the lower shelf...

So far I find my acurite to be accurate and reliable also temp not humidity. We will see though when I compare it to the spot check. Thanks for the positive review on the spot check.

So here is what I did so far. Instead of removing the lower shelf completely, I decided to start with just the seal around the lower shelf so I removed all the silver metal tape that was sealing the edges of the lower shelf. I had the thermometer on the top level and the incubator is now reading...

Very good thought! I will try that first before I go fussing with the vent hole or different shelf sizes. I will take it out now and run it like that and give feedback on this in the morn.

Oh I didn't drill the ones on the top since I have no places to hatch in it. Im pretty sure the back vent area is sealed well. I will mess around with the vent holes and adjust the bottom shelf also and see if that makes a difference.

exactly the same as yours.

Oops sorry!

I did lower the bulb wattage significantly and the temps stay the same at each level, which is why I am thinking the air isn't circulating enough to make the heat even through out. But I am new at the cooler bator so Im not too sure.