DIY Incubator

[KMR]

Here are most of the products you will need:



Here is the fridge I used. It was all white and I had a ALOT of black spray paint soooooooo:



Directions:

1. First step is hooking up the computer fans.It comes with everything and is extremely simple to wire it up. There are two connections to be made on each fan:







Here's the second connection to for the fan:



All done:



2. Second step is to tape the (2) 2ft heat tape together. Remeber, you need a slight overlap... Not only for limited space, but you need it to properly attach the two pieces to each other. Also, these pieces were pre-wired:







In the pic below, it shows how I tied the wire together witha twister inorder to keep the wires in place and not hanging all over. Also, you can see the plastic connector after you make the overlap. Don't worry, it does not affect anything:



3. Third step is making holes in the fridge inorder to pass the wires through. Mines had holes already in place from the vent system... Only problem was I had to make the outer hole a slight bigger... no probs.

Here's the wire being passed through the outer hole to the top section:



The wired is being passed through to the bottom section since I was hooking up the bottom section first:





4. Next step is to tape the heat tape onto the walls of the fridge. Here's me checking to see if the heat tape fits and it did:



The taping begins. I would suggest that you use small pieces because if you use big pieces, it would be difficult to remove the tape if needed to:





5. Next step is getting the fans in. Thus, you have to pass the wire through the holes:




Here's the finished product of the bottom section:



6. Next step is hooking up the top section. I put the 3ft piece of tape in first and then put the wire through the hole. I attached the tape on the roof of the top section.





Finished product of the top section:



7. Time to hook-up the heat tape to the thermostats and attach the fans to the extension cord. The heat tape will be attached to the Helix first and then the Helix will be attached to the Ranco, which will act as a back-up in the event the Helix goes bad. Many people say one thermostat is good but I STRONGLY disagree because I refuse to use the bare minimum on my animals! The wiring process is straight forward, by just pluging in the heat tapes into the Helix's Plug. Then you plug the Helix's Power Wire into the Ranco. Then you plug the fans into an extension cords.

In the end you will have two power cords, one for the fans and one for the heat tapes. Here are some of the wires which I placed in the back because it looked too messy :angel:



I placed the Raco on the side of the incubator and placed the Helix in-front:



Any questions about my procedure on bulding an incubator, feel free to contact me