• Responding to email notices you receive.
    **************************************************
    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

    =====================
    Posted 08/15/2025
    =====================


    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

    =====================
    Addendum: 01/10/2026
    =====================


    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

New incubator build

PythonWallace

New member
Joined
Mar 22, 2002
Messages
170
Reaction score
0
Points
0
Location
Chicago
I needed a larger incubator this year so I built this over the weekend. It's 24"w x 48"h x 18"d, can fit 12 egg boxes and is made of solid birch.

I built in a Herpstat thermostat, then I also built in a closed system, self exhausting computer power supply that powers a 3 channel, blue backlit speed controller that powers and controls a pair of 6,000v cold cathode lights, a pair of 50mm fans that blow down against the back wall, and a third 50mm fan than blows from the back toward the front of the unit. The Herpstat powers two - 3' sections of 11" flexwatt. I used weather strip along the inside front and a set of magnetic cabinet latches so the door snaps shut and has a tight seal.

l_2230e08f958a4fbd8151ca159da8c5c1.jpg


l_394e4a21d37543e9a5ca8e6e7b9450bc.jpg


l_b6f0cbdc662243d1bf439f5f188a72f8.jpg


without flash to show lights off
l_00cba59543d84baf912840787e8ed9af.jpg


lights on (turned up to full brightness)
l_740feeec0791492797c98dbddcabfc4a.jpg
 
Back
Top