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Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2023
If you have any questions, post them in the question area and I will do my best to answer them! I get notifications on all questions.This is for all you DIY incubator builders! This controller can be a pain if using anything needing over 12v's. My cabinet incubator is using a 110v heating coil with ceramic insulators. I have to use a 12v relay that can handle an output of 120v with the 120v having it's own power supply controlled by the relay and the relay is controlled by the Intelligent Incubator Controller.The controller when flipped on its face and back opened up to connect wires, nodes goes in order neg, pos, neg, pos and so on. MY controller had just the heating element swapped to Pos then neg. While the rest of the nodes were neg pos. I thought the controller just wouldn't turn off my heating element once it reached temps or that maybe I wired the relay wrong. After long hours that turn to days waiting for seller to respond, I spent 3 days watching YouTube to figure it out. All videos of it are in a foreign lang. So it was difficult to understand. One video said their controller was mixed leads at the heating so I tried it and bam! It works!I have not had the chance to try out the humidity controller. I haven't settled on what type of humidity setup I want to go for.I have not had the chance to try out the auto egg turner timer. I have a 110v egg turner motor I was going to try out, but didn't have a relay to hook it up for trying. And my cabinet incubator has 4 stationary egg racks that have their own individual egg turners from HatchingTime.com so I don't need this option right now. When I build another incubator with the intent to use my 110v motor, I will give it a shot with this controller.-Now for the fan issue. This controller is for circulated incubators only. When fans are hooked up to this controller, they do not ever shut off! This will cause temp to jump up and down a lot if the temp probe is getting wind from fans.-The temp probe is very sensitive, and incorrect. I have 3x ThermPro's throughout my incubator with 1 right next to the controller probe. The controller is 2-4 degrees off. The humidity probe seems dead on though!-There is no option to hook up any lights. If you really want to be able to have a light to turn on and off, I would suggest connecting a light to the "Candler" power supply on the controller and run the the light in your incubator. You can turn it on and off from the controller.-You can not turn off the alarms, and they are very loud. I set the high alarms to 60c, and 90h, and the low alarms to 5c and 1h. That way I never hear them. I'm not a fan of the alarms. I spend hours by my incubator watching the temps and humidity often. So they serve no purpose for me.-The controller does not come with a power supply. Only comes with attached temp and humidity probes that are very short.-This controller does not have a power switch. You will have to unplug it every time you want to turn it off.-This unit will only output 12v of power from each terminal. If you are using more than 12v, you will need a relay.-I would suggest using fuses between any power supply connections to prevent shorting's and plug and play connectors to make disassembly and reassembling faster and easier for cleaning or storage.Parts I'm using in my incubator:Power Supply- Ablegrid 12 Volt Power Supply - 2.5 Amp Standard (12V 2.5A DC) AdapterController- Intelligent Incubator ControllerPower Supply for Heat Source- Standard extension cord with female end cut off.Heat- 225 watt coil heater & insulator kit: cabinet egg incubator 110V heating elementRelay- OONO DPST 1NO 1NC 8Amp Power Relay Module, AC/DC 12V Control VoltageFans- CORSAIR - Air Series LED AF120 (2018) 120mm Case Cooling Fan Kit - WhiteExtra Temp and Humidity Readers- ThermoPro TP50 Digital Hygrometer Indoor ThermometerEgg turner: 60KTYZ 110vAC 50Hz 14w
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