Fridge Incubator Question

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Originally Posted by RichsBallPythons

Freon will never be resend in the fridge unless there is a leak and you would smell it.

Your perfectly fine to incubate with that

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Ok great. I think I do want to get the compresser professionally removed anyhow because I do want to use the lights and it has a built in fan on the top of the inside, so that would be helpful as well!

I would like to get it going where the compresser is gone, and when I plug it in the light can be toggled on/off and the fan is on at all times.

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Originally Posted by mr.spooky

heres a link to the video... its nothing special but it works great..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtcK13Uw1Zo
spooky

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Thank you for your video! That fridge is setup the EXACT same as mine. I think I might use your method of the false wall and rigging that fan up. Seems like it would work better then those CPU fans anyways.
I appreciate your video!

your welcome,,,, sorry that i dident go into the electrical part of it,, but if you take your time, its not that hard,,, theres not too many wires.
spooky

I have a true cooler and here's what I found using it them for 2 seasons.

Leaving the compressor intact gives the unit nice stability, removing the compressor makes it easier to move the incubator but it's not as stable once in place.

The fan in true coolers create a lot of heat and makes it difficult to keep all of the shelves the same temperature, and it doesn't blow the air where you want it.
I also don't recommend leaving the light on, I have a 4 foot tube in mine and took it out, lights add heat, lights go out, not a good thing imo.

I use a bathroom ceiling fan(fart fan) and sat it on a towel, the noise from the fan vibrating was loud, lol.
To regulate the fan I plug it straight into a zoo-med rheostat giving me excellent control of fan speed. The rheostat made regulating the temperature shelf to shelf a breeze, before I always had several degrees difference in temperature shelf to shelf.
The fan faces to the rear of the incubator and blows against the back wall taking the heat upwards. I found that turning up the fan too high created more heat on the bottom of the inc than at the top, so I just back the fan speed down a little at a time until the temperature shelf to shelf becomes the same.

I surround the fan with water bottles and use the top shelf for water bottles also. Having a fan that's too weak to move the air in the incubator means having hot and cool spots. Computer fans work well in mini fridges but IMO aren't enough circulation for a larger true cooler.

We had a 100% hatch rate on 11 clutches in this inc this season, I'm fairly pleased with it :)
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I will be testing a false wall in this incubator for the coming season, the biggest flaw in placing flexwatt on the walls is that the part of the tub that is closer to the wall is hotter than the middle of the tub.