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jfmoore
at Mon Dec 1 02:35:28 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by jfmoore ]
Hi –
Thanks for taking the time to show and tell exactly what you did. I’ve been using the same old homemade incubator for well over 20 years, but I’m always interested in what other people do. One design I saw recently on another message board incorporated a bunch of one-liter plastic bottles filled with water which rested on or near the heat source. Seemed like a good idea for smoothing out temperature fluctuations when you open the incubator for routine maintenance or checks.
My incubator usually contains some of the larger-sized python eggs, and I’ve always felt that these eggs themselves inside the closed plastic containers served well enough as heat stabilizers, so to speak, and were very slow to lose heat. But since I have room for some water bottles, I thought I’d see how they work this year. I noticed you seem to have plenty of room between the top of the flexwatt and the bottom of the first level of egg containers to accommodate something like that. Since your access doors are large and you don’t have shelves (necessitating taking out the top boxes to get to lower ones) you’ll probably dump a lot of heat whenever you open the incubator, so it might be something you would like to try, too.
-Joan
Well I wrote this before I read Chris Harper's post. I'll post it anyway. Great minds think alike, I guess.
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RE: DIY Incubator is done - Link to build specs - jfmoore, Mon Dec 1 02:35:28 2003