Wine cooler incubator

[Jess Jones]

A friend got me a nice used wine cooler. It's 33" tall x 24" wide x 23" deep. Here is my progress so far. I am waiting for my LED lights and my fan to finish.

Start


Cleaned out and refrigeration unit removed. Getting the heat tape installed.


Heat tape installed.


All ready except the LED lights and fan.

[Albert Clark]

Wow! Amazing job. Congrats. Was this your first time doing this?

[Ba11er]

looks really good, your clutches should do well !

[Jess Jones]

Thanks guys. Yeah this is my first time building anything like this. I have been watching videos and reading a lot. There is a great sticky up top here that helped me out. I have a chance at a larger cooler that a friend has. It's 24" deep x 36" long x 26" tall. Has front sliding glass doors. He wants $150 for it. I don't think I need something that big yet but I might grab it a build it into an incubator. Then sell it all done up or if anyone in NW Pa or close wants it I can get you pics.

[Jess Jones]

I finally have all the stuff installed and tested. I trashed the led rope lights that I had installed. They wouldn't stick properly. I went with a nice small bulb on a switch with a dimmer. I ended up using the power supply from the led lights to control the fan. It keeps it at a nice medium speed. Circulates the air very nicely. I added 6 water bottles to help keep the heat. I did a week long test and it stayed very nice. All I am waiting on now will be my back up thermometers to keep in the incubator itself. I am going to use 3 for the top middle and bottom level of the incubator.