New Enclosure & Incubator

[Glimmerman]

Thanks Playwell, greatly appreciated.

Cheers

 

[snakehunter]

I am looking at building my own diamond aviary soon, yours looks like a good size, could you tell me what the dimensions are please?

 

[africancichlidau]

Off the same board you need to put a transformer for the 12 DC for the fans. I used a Dicksmith one I had lying around with 3,6,9,12 volt switch on it, so I can slow or speed up the fan for air/heat circulation depending on what worked best. (Testing over 2 weeks) I found that 9volts is perfect for even fast heating.

Hey there Playboy be careful with dropping the voltage below that rated on the fan as that will cause it draw more current and therefore possibly burn out at a very inconvenient time. I'd keep a spare fan to hand just in case mate.

 

[Sdaji]

Hey there Playboy be careful with dropping the voltage below that rated on the fan as that will cause it draw more current and therefore possibly burn out at a very inconvenient time. I'd keep a spare fan to hand just in case mate.

Are you sure about that? I've also added a fan to my incubator this year and like Playwell am using an adjustable transformer and have found 9 volts to work best. How does lowering the voltage cause the fan (effectively an electric motor) to draw more current? V=Ir so lowering V will lower I, unless r somehow decreases with V... is this the case?

Brilliant looking incubator, Playwell. I've seen a fair few fridges conterted to incubators and aesthetically, yours would have to be the hands down winner. Impressive effort you've put in to your projects, especially after dealing with everything that moving and finding work brings. Well done.

 

[playwell]

Thank for the input guys, and I will look into the volt/current draw situation

Snake hunter - The size is 1500mm wide X 1700mm Deep X 1800mm High.

 

[herptrader]

Yeah - How does that work SparkFish?

Your average computer fan is DC and brushless... so isn't it just the current through the coil and as Turnip boy says that would go down with voltage??

I run a couple of tiny fans, the ones designed for the top of CPU's. I have one in the hood of our frog enclosure which effectively keeps the humidity down and another in the incubator. Both run at about 9 volts. In four years I have had to replace the one in the frog enclosure but that was a cheap quality one. Since switching to the industrial quality HP ones from scrapped equipment at the office it has not missed a beat.

Hey there Playboy be careful with dropping the voltage below that rated on the fan as that will cause it draw more current and therefore possibly burn out at a very inconvenient time. I'd keep a spare fan to hand just in case mate.

Are you sure about that? I've also added a fan to my incubator this year and like Playwell am using an adjustable transformer and have found 9 volts to work best. How does lowering the voltage cause the fan (effectively an electric motor) to draw more current? V=Ir so lowering V will lower I, unless r somehow decreases with V... is this the case?

 

[The Rock]

Ive used a heat pad and fan in each of my fridge incubators, (double door fridge,) on DC for years without a problem.
Looks good playwell,- now ya need to fill it up. Good luck for the season.
Rob

 

[alby]

top job leats i know now if i need anything done around my house i know who im calling

 

[BROWNS]

Smick! Have just done much the same but man that looks bloody good what a top job....nice pure diamond too.

 

[dobermanmick]

Great job ill give you a pat on the back as well

 

[playwell]

arh ha shucks thanks guys :wink:


Lets hope the snakes put in the same effort, so at least I will get to use the inucbator :

 

[Dicco]

That's a bloody nice Dimond aivery, good work mate.