NR 360 Humidity

[CollieCountess]

I have having a horrendous time with my new NR 360 and humidity.

For context, I'm in south Texas with 80% humidity, however this incubator is inside.

I am struggling to maintain a constant steady humidity. Every time I refill even a tiny bit, it swings up to 60% and then a few hours later it's down in the 30s. I do have a thermopro in there and I'm taking the readings off of it.

The vent is halfway open, and I've tried just closing it more without adding water, and that tends to take the humidity into the 60s again, but then it will also drop it back to the 30's 4-6 hours later.

Suggestions and help would be appreciated. I know a lot of people have great things to say about this incubator, and I'm positive I'm doing something wrong.

 

[Debbie292d]

I used one of those for a year. I made it work as we're in the same situation as you, high humidity outdoors, but inside it's kept to 40%. That doesn't seem to work for an incubator though, as with no water in it, it falls far below that.

There are two red port covers. I found myself using both ports most of the time to try maintain between 40-50% for longer periods of time.

At lockdown, if I filled both ports to overflowing, that would do it. My goal was 70% and it would nearly get there.

There are some posts about making wicks to draw water into it, but I never tried those. What I did if I took the lid off to candle was ball up a wet paper towel and throw that in there when I was done so it didn't take long to get back up to upper 40s.

Now with three Brinseas that have automatic humidity, I set what I want, and it keeps it there.

 

[Windy136]

Dealing with this right now myself. I did my first dry hatch with the NR 360 because I was so sick of dealing with the humidity it was either too low or ridiculously high. We live in TN so my humidity has stayed around 40%. You can fold up a piece of a paper towel and put it under part of the lid where it doesnt close all the way. This has helped me some in the past to lower the humidity by around 5-10%.

 

[SweetieChicken234]

I use my NR 360 to dry incubate. I'm in Florida with horrendous humidity. Inside when I run it dry it stays around 30-35% humidity. I add water at lockdown and it stays around 55%. Chicks hatch great.