This is an AI generated image of a woman with an incubator.
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Bob mentioned about my rototiller project that it was above most Darwin's in power cords and tiller tines, and I smiled at this, but now I'm wondering about his Wisdom in relating this incubator which I built as in looking at the wiring, it honestly looks like some Elon Musk off planet wiring scheme. It really is not that complicated, but you get wires and you it looks like a place to get lost.
I mentioned to the farm store guy was fixed B 52's in what I was doing and he called me a genius. As I look at this project, maybe I am.
This all begins with a very old General Electric microwave, which you of course have to gut as microwaves do not incubate fertilized eggs to chicks. You have to be careful apparently in removing things for charges built up, so the risk is yours as it is mine, but I like incubators as they are really made to turn into incubators.
Thee only piece I save out a microwave is the fan and the power cord.
OK so you disassemble the microwave, and you save all the screws. The new microwaves have safety torque screws to keep people like me from exploring. This one was from the 1970's and I got it because it is uber small. I wanted a compact little incubator as this one I was going to include with the holy grail of an automatic egg turner..........which after constant measuring throughout the winter, it just fit. Well to the point that I cut a slot out with a Makita grinder cutting blade and a chisel, as I had it was a few inches too long but that is kosher for this project.
Below is my workshop. The back of a pick up as non donors keep me outside. You can see the incubator stripped down and the auto turner tray slid in.
I had to jig things around and nigger rig things as this 11 by 12 inch space was tight. On the top right is the fan which was in the incubator. On the left is the thermostat just installed.
I drilled holes and bolted them into place.
Oh on the front you can see a plug in which I installed as I needed an electric outlet to run the timer for the egg turner. As I covered that in another post, I will not repeat that here, other than to say the idiot which said "Why would you want to do that", I actually by God's Inspiration found as solution which worked with a commercial timer which I could set at 10 seconds which is required to power this turner for the few seconds it needed to rotate the eggs.
This is the inside view for the fan, turner and water heater thermostat before it is wired in.
This is the wiring scheme. It is not that difficult. the egg turner motor goes into the timer which is plugged into the outlet.
The power cord coming in wires to the outlet. The spare outlet terminals run the hot and cold wires to the thermostat, as that cycles the fan and heater which are two electric bulbs, using a replacement heat lamp unit.
This is the opposite side where the thermostat in mounted. I have used spray foam insulation to snug things up as it is important to reduce drafts and heat loss for a better environment for the eggs.
I have included how a water heater thermostat in the top unit is wired. I did not do it correctly as there were too many terminals. I followed the diagram and it powered right up and worked as the previous incubator I built did.
This is what it looks like with dual light bulbs, in case on burns out. These are incadscent fridge bulbs of 15 watts. It is tight in this little space so it is cocked a bit.
I have covered the thermostat open terminals with electrician tape as a precaution.
Finally, this is the timer with egg turner plugged in.
Considering the junk coming out of China. How high cost incubators are, I put less then 50 bucks into this with wiring, electric terminals, timer, egg turner. Thermostat came out of an old water heater JYG had as I salvage numbers of them like light bulbs out of fridges as am not paying the ransom they want for them.
This is the completed incubator. Yes this is beyond Darwin, but I'm not really a genius in this stuff either. Just find things online, take my time and I do not electrocute myself or blow myself up as I do not touch things with things plugged in.
I figure this is probably a 300 dollar incubator. I may someday have to use a heat wire which is what most incubators use, if the light bulbs all disappear which produce heat. I just wanted an incubator with an auto egg turner, and plotted on this for almost 2 years before the parts all appeared in my God directed path and it took several days to assemble as I learned that a hole saw, needs a 21 dollar mandrel to use the hole saw. A heat cable would be just a 1/2 inch hole drilled through I suppose which would negate that problem
I know what this thing is though, why it is working and how it works, because I built it from the inside out.
This is my mini chicken incubator for Serama eggs. Will work on pigeons, quail and even normal chicken eggs. Put the aluminum pie place in the bottom with sponge and fill with warm water each day and in 21 days you have baby chicks.
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