Retrospect on eggs, and hovabator..

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

What are your thoughts on using the Hova with the Helix thermo? I am thinking of doing that because I cannot find any small old fridges around here; Mark works in neighborhoods that have roaches, and if we brought those into our house via a used piece of furniture or appliance, I would die. :) We actually passed up a free bigscreen HDTV because the house it was from was roach infested..
I will give him a few more days to find one.. I do have a normal-sized cooler that I could use too. I could get FWatt at a certain local pet store (a good one) and be all set in a few days.

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Hey,

What about craigslist? I know in our area theres always apartment sized refrigerators for a hundo or two. I happened across a reach in cooler that was set out for the garbage man:eek: . But I was lucky. My next option was to make one in a small fridge with the flex watt. Keep looking, and I did find some plans in some books I have. When I get home today I will forward where I found them.

http://www.compactappliance.com/ has open box items on sale all the time. I bought a perfect 28 bottle wine refridgerator on there for $180 shipped. They change the prices depending on the condition of the item, I guess, so if you check weekly you can find one cheap. Here's a link to a 34 bottle fridge for $189. They use electric thermo units for cooling instead of freon, so you can just reverse the polarity to the cooling unit and plug the whole thing in to a Ranco or Johnson on/off thermostat and you have a working, heating incubator. I already had a Helix, so I wired some flexwatt, but it isn't neccessary. They have glass front doors, internal LEDs and an internal fan, plus they lock.

http://www.compactappliance.com/xq/J...WC491BG_OB.htm

That seems really cool. Mark has a friend who works for an appliance dealer and he is going to see what he has tomorrow; he didn't get there today unfortunately.