Re: How's my incubator look?
I only used heat tape on the bottom but I don't see how it'd hurt to have more tape - the thermostat should keep it in check. I'm a huge fan of water bottles in an incubator. It's amazing how fast you get up to your target temp after opening/closing the bator with the water bottles in there. When I first crank my incubator up it takes hours to get up to 88 degrees(and this is in a house that's typically in the low 80s already). I might lose 4-5 degrees when opening the incubator but with the water bottles it gets back to 88 in a flash. Then, if you ever need to add water to an egg tub, you have plenty perfectly baked H2O ready to pour. I don't like my eggs close to the tape so I use bottles as a buffer too. I'm sure you'll do a bit of tweaking once you start running trials, most of us do and it's part of the fun. Good luck and keep us posted.
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Re: How's my incubator look?
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joebad976
I would put the flex watt at the bottom and not the sides. Also get some water bottles to lay on the bottom then the grate on top of that this well help minimize any hot spots in the tape.
Exactly my thoughts, also be careful about how much flexwatt you put in there. For some reason mine would not stay stable until I took out a stip of flexwatt. My fridge bator only has 3 strips of 4 inch, so you may only need 1 or 2 strips.
