JN8-48 incubator

Rhode Red · **Posted:** Sat Nov 10, 2012 4:23 pm

Hi Rob53,
I purchased my direct from Joletray Trading. Tony has been very helpful with both per and post sales.

Link http://www.crazydealsonline.com.au/incu ... pping.html

I am very happy with mine including my earlier 60 egg unit.

Rhose Red.

Rob53 · **Joined:** Fri Nov 09, 2012 7:10 pm **Posts:** 2

Thank you Rhose I will take a look at them now I like the post sales help that one is important to me not having used one before

Longy · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:51 pm

stencorp69 wrote:

For those that need help with this incubator, I've formatted the information from the URL on my previous post to a PDF and added an index.

I just bought the updated jn8-48, interestingly, the manual that comes with it now looks just like what you provided/created stencorp.

Did they borrow your material?

Hope give it a go soon, it's running at present without any eggs, temp reads 38 degrees on the display, and humidity is at 65.

But waiting on an external thermometer/hygrometer to arrive in order to calibrate incubator before placing eggs inside it.

stencorp69 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2013 11:17 pm

Longy wrote:

stencorp69 wrote:

For those that need help with this incubator, I've formatted the information from the URL on my previous post to a PDF and added an index.

I just bought the updated jn8-48, interestingly, the manual that comes with it now looks just like what you provided/created stencorp.

Did they borrow your material?

Hope give it a go soon, it's running at present without any eggs, temp reads 38 degrees on the display, and humidity is at 65.

But waiting on an external thermometer/hygrometer to arrive in order to calibrate incubator before placing eggs inside it.

The material came from a pdf I found online (I think there is a link to is somewhere) - I only reformatted it and edited some of the language . Much of the information regarding general egg incubation comes straight off QLD gov dept ag website I later discovered.

If someone reuses it and sends it out with the incubator it will hopefully help the buyer save all the time I lost trying work out how to use it.

Longy · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2013 6:45 pm

stencorp69 wrote:

OK, temperature 36.9C-37C (once you gave me the heads up), For humidity I filled up the outer area (where the air holes are) only because I found it difficult with the auto turner to fill the channels. The humidity sat between 60-70%. For the last 3 days when I took the auto turn out I filled both the channels and the humidity was 80%.

Stephen

Hi stencorp,

The temperature of 36.9C-37C, was that the temperature showing on th jn8 readout or that's the temperature measured by a separate thermometer level with the egg tray?

As my reading on the front of the jn8 was 38C, but using a handheld thermometer place inside the incubator and on the egg tray, that recorded 39.2C.

So do I drop the incubator temperature until I get 36.9C on my handheld thermometer inside the incubator?

Thanks.

stencorp69 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:01 pm

Longy wrote:

stencorp69 wrote:

OK, temperature 36.9C-37C (once you gave me the heads up), For humidity I filled up the outer area (where the air holes are) only because I found it difficult with the auto turner to fill the channels. The humidity sat between 60-70%. For the last 3 days when I took the auto turn out I filled both the channels and the humidity was 80%.

Stephen

Hi stencorp,

The temperature of 36.9C-37C, was that the temperature showing on th jn8 readout or that's the temperature measured by a separate thermometer level with the egg tray?

As my reading on the front of the jn8 was 38C, but using a handheld thermometer place inside the incubator and on the egg tray, that recorded 39.2C.

So do I drop the incubator temperature until I get 36.9C on my handheld thermometer inside the incubator?

Thanks.

The JN8 temp display can be calibrated accordingly if it doesn't show the correct temp - by using a trusted thermometer after runnning the JN8 for a few days.

Snales · **Joined:** Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:13 am **Posts:** 2

Ho guys I am looking at buying 1 of these are they good and reliable and safe for 7 and 9 year olds to use?

Moore River · **Joined:** Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:07 am **Posts:** 6

I have had no issues so far and good hatching rate so for the price I think they are good

Longy · **Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2013 7:33 pm

Snales wrote:

Ho guys I am looking at buying 1 of these are they good and reliable and safe for 7 and 9 year olds to use?

There isn't to do once you put water in the channel, add the eggs and turn it on.

Just need to refill the water channel every 4 days or so, but it can be a difficult task for a 9 year old to do as it's not easy to get water into the channel when the hatching tray and egg trays are in place.

Others have found using the "pump" branded water bottles to squirt water down into the channel through the hatching tray.

johs · **Posted:** Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:18 pm

Taking the tray out at day 18 when it's full of eggs could be a little challenging for young kids too. I know I find it a little tricky as it's quite flexible and you have to pick it up from the right spots.

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