My cooler incubator

[lamina1982]

So as my female should be laying me some spider eggs soon I figured I better get going on my incubator. I just used stuff I had laying around. A used cooler, heat rope, 2 cpu fans, some egg crate, some 1/2" pvc pipe, and an on off thermostat (will hopefully get a herpstat before egg time.
So here are all the "parts"

The PVC contraption will be filled with water to help with humidty and hold heat.
Heres the cooler and some thick plexiglass for supports and the cut egg crate.

1/2" pieces of 2" pvc to support the pvc rack with heat cable wrapped around


The heat cable wraped around the support and placed in the cooler


The plexi glass support in place-this is 3" wide to keep the eggcrate from resting on the fans


The cpu fans wired up to a 12v plug and facing each-offset to circulate the air.


The egg crate and fans placed over the heating cable-note the air flow. The thermostat probe is also in place

The cables shown coming out of drain hole


This didnt take much time at all and basically didnt cost me anything as I had all the stuff laying around.


This was startup temp. It took less than 30 min to get up to about 90*. So well see how well this works. A very simple design that is easy for anyone to build.

[ericzerka24]

none of your pics work

[dr del]

Hi,

You have to have the pics hosted somewhere public like photobucket or imageshack.

Only you can log in to your live account to see those attatchments.

If you get the hosted somewhere drop myself or any member of staff a PM and we will see if we can put them in the first post for you.


dr del

[lamina1982]

oh thats stupid as i can see them perfect--gues that doesnt help anyone else

[lamina1982]

Here ya go...sorry guys:

[dr del]

Hi,

We're missing the picture of the cables coming out the hole I think.


dr del

[lamina1982]

Heres the cables running out of drain hole

Sorry guys from my view this looked like a good write up in my first post...kinda potch job. hope you enjoy it anyways

[jben]

Nice DIY incubator.