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That's great your temperature and humidity sound just right your humidity is what most people recommend however I end up running mine a little higher then most people to get good results. Number 8 is zipping now I'm very pleased with my hatch rate considering I receive these eggs here in Kansas shipped from Arkansas.
 
LLranch said:
That's great your temperature and humidity sound just right your humidity is what most people recommend however I end up running mine a little higher then most people to get good results. Number 8 is zipping now I'm very pleased with my hatch rate considering I receive these eggs here in Kansas shipped from Arkansas.
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To is Just day 0. So we have a few weeks to adjust humidity thankfully. And that's awesome! Half of our eggs were shipped too so I'm hoping for the best but expecting a low hatch rate.
 
So I've built a controller using an Inkbird itc-100 VH it works well as a controller but has a lot of internal settings and adjustments, some which help and some that took some time to figure out. Such as the differential which was set for 3 degree swing, but that was adjustable to 0, I chose .1 degree. Any way its all adjustable and works well. My plan was to use it to run my little giant 9200 incubator. The original setup of the 9200 swings quite a bit so I was going to turn it on full and run the power supply through a SSR controlled by the Inkbird controller. The SSR was a NO relay wich is the most common used and there is slight power bleed through the switch side when off. So come to find out I need a NC relay and to run the controller in reverse which the Inkbird controllers do.
Its a good controller as far as I can tell so far I'll let you know how it goes with the other SSR, if that doesn't work I'm going to get a common mechanical relay and see how that goes.

Good luck.
 
Nekatlla said:
So I've built a controller using an Inkbird itc-100 VH it works well as a controller but has a lot of internal settings and adjustments, some which help and some that took some time to figure out. Such as the differential which was set for 3 degree swing, but that was adjustable to 0, I chose .1 degree. Any way its all adjustable and works well. My plan was to use it to run my little giant 9200 incubator. The original setup of the 9200 swings quite a bit so I was going to turn it on full and run the power supply through a SSR controlled by the Inkbird controller. The SSR was a NO relay wich is the most common used and there is slight power bleed through the switch side when off. So come to find out I need a NC relay and to run the controller in reverse which the Inkbird controllers do.
Its a good controller as far as I can tell so far I'll let you know how it goes with the other SSR, if that doesn't work I'm going to get a common mechanical relay and see how that goes.

Good luck.
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As of now, We have the Inkbird ITC-1000 (I think) Controlling for our Coolerbator. So far it's been working wonderfully. On the test runs and with the eggs as well. I couldn't quite figure out how to wire it since the order is different on it from most other diagrams. But Luckily my husband knows what he's doing with electrical and had it up and running in one try. I was still reading diagrams and he was testing it out already. Go figure. Lol. But I chose to use it on C just because it seems to work better. Tomorrow we are adding a second light source to help it run smoother.
 
I woke up this morning and thermometer in the incubator said 93 Degrees. Of course I went into full panic mode and my husband calmly suggested that we run to Ace to grab a Wall Thermometer. So we got it and came back. The digital saying 92 when we arrived. But the Wall thermometer is dead on 99.5ish. So the Ink-bird is doing it's job, But my thermometer is off for some reason. I will just use this one use the other to gage humidity levels. Now I'm cooling off from the panic attack.
 
My inkbird has a SC setting to calibrate to a known temp, my probe was off by 2.8 degrees C luckily I have a Lab with NIST tracable thermometers to verify everything with.

I've also found that with two to three thermometers in the incubator depending on where the turner is the probes move and give different readings up to a degree difference, however when they are flat and the turner is centered they all read within .3 degrees. And I have a forced air kit installed, I just go with it and hope until I get my new incubator made.

They usually read low when they are under the eggs, when at the top of the eggs they read correctly.

Glad its running good for you!
 
Nekatlla said:
My inkbird has a SC setting to calibrate to a known temp, my probe was off by 2.8 degrees C luckily I have a Lab with NIST tracable thermometers to verify everything with.

I've also found that with two to three thermometers in the incubator depending on where the turner is the probes move and give different readings up to a degree difference, however when they are flat and the turner is centered they all read within .3 degrees. And I have a forced air kit installed, I just go with it and hope until I get my new incubator made.

They usually read low when they are under the eggs, when at the top of the eggs they read correctly.

Glad its running good for you!
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Ours is force air as well I believe. I would have been alright with slightly different temps, But it was 6-7 degrees off. Waay too much for comfort. I'm truly hoping we have a good hatch rate. Today is only day 1. Lol.
 
MaconMommy5 said:
​Ours is force air as well I believe. I would have been alright with slightly different temps, But it was 6-7 degrees off. Waay too much for comfort. I'm truly hoping we have a good hatch rate. Today is only day 1. Lol.
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You must be close to hatch day I hope all is going well good luck
 

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