DIY humidity pump?

[SheaLoner]

I'm picking up a NR 360 next week. I've been looking into work arounds for problems I figure I will have with it.
We heat our house with wood so during winter our ambient humidity can be 10% or less. Knowing myself as I do I'm afraid I will miss a topping of the reservoir.

I came across this on reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BackYardChickens/comments/3syalo

Its an aquarium air pump with an airstone, placed in a bottle of water. A 2nd hole with tubing is pushed through the lid and sits above the water line. The 2nd tube is then fed into the incubator. With the 360 it would be fed through the A or B slot.
With the pump on, the stone will bubble and force moist air up through the 2nd tube and into the incubator.
If you find a way to heat the bottle, mini aquarium heater? It shouldn't cause any temp swings.


As a low tech alternative I think you can use a container of water above the incubator. Feed a piece of airline tube from the container to the incubator A slot. Place an airline T-valve in the line and set the valve to allow a slow drip. Adjust drip as needed.

Edit double picture.

 

[kandyg_99]

Please Let Us Know How It Works For You .

 

[SheaLoner]

Will do. Might try both.

 

[BlueBaby]

I have one of those NR 360's. I use one of those turkey baster's to add water when needed.

 

[SheaLoner]

I have one of those NR 360's. I use one of those turkey baster's to add water when needed.

I'm more worried about forgetting to fill it and the humidity dropping to nill for a few days.

 

[BlueBaby]

I'm more worried about forgetting to fill it and the humidity dropping to nill for a few days.

How could you forget for a few day's that you have a hatch going on? I'm always checking mine several time's a day, or at least in the morning after I get up, and then again before going to bed.

 

[SheaLoner]

Set up and incubating for the Easter hatch along, already missed filling the well once. The incubator is in a not well lit area I only pass through twice a day.

So I rigged up the drip version of a humidity pump. Has been going 3 hrs now and maintaining RH at 43%. Will let it go overnight and adjust as needed.
It is set to aprox 1 drip per min.

 

[SheaLoner]

It works. Has been keeping RH steady at 46% with vent at 3/4. Did have to increase the drip count a bit more am trying to find that sweet spot.

 

[Iluveggers]

 

[SheaLoner]

Had another idea for a drip system. If there are any nurses around an IV drip would serve the same function as my airline hose.

The aquarium airline tube and airline valve should be readily available at a local walmart for $5ish. Or if you have a local tropical fish store around, they may have extra bits and pieces they may just give you.