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Hey, I found an incubator in local classifieds thats a Precision 815 low tempature incubator, does anyone know about these type of incubators and if it'd work for blood python and jcp eggs
here is a link from the manufacturer with the specs

It says refrigerated incubator but it also says it goes up to 50C

Precision 815

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0.1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0.0 Yellow Anaconda
1.1.0 Suriname Red Tail Boa
1.1.0 Guyana Red Tail Boa
1.0.0 Coral Sunglow Boa
0.1.0 Coral Albino Boa
0.1.0 Arabesque Het Albino Boa
0.1.0 DH Sunglow Boa
1.1.0 Red Blood Python
1.2.0 Jungle Carpet Python (females VPI Bloodline)
0.1.0 Burmese Python (Rescue)
0.1.0 Albino Retic (Lavender)
0.1.0 Avicularia Versicolor
1.0.0 Cat

I worked in a laboratory in the 80's and 90's and ran many types of environmental analysis, and purchased a lot of instrumentation and equipment. BOD incubators are refrigerator units and will only operate to maintain their interior temps at a setting below the ambient temps of the room they are within. They have no ability to increase temps above ambient. The 10 to 50 degree C range listed in the performance specs is the temp range of the room that it is capable of operating within. The only way it could work would be if set up in a room where the temp was kept consistently in the low to mid 90's, but that would obviously be a little impractical. The thermostat function of these units was impressive, as I never saw them vary by more than 0.5 degrees C from the programmed temp setting.

Kelly

Thanks Kelly, kinda stinks tho i was able to get it for pretty cheap.
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0.1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0.0 Yellow Anaconda
1.1.0 Suriname Red Tail Boa
1.1.0 Guyana Red Tail Boa
1.0.0 Coral Sunglow Boa
0.1.0 Coral Albino Boa
0.1.0 Arabesque Het Albino Boa
0.1.0 DH Sunglow Boa
1.1.0 Red Blood Python
1.2.0 Jungle Carpet Python (females VPI Bloodline)
0.1.0 Burmese Python (Rescue)
0.1.0 Albino Retic (Lavender)
0.1.0 Avicularia Versicolor
1.0.0 Cat