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Hi All - thanks to the many replies I received in the past about the egg turner not working on my JN-48 incubator. We eventually found the missing part hiding in our compost pile. Ooops!
The first batch of eggs that we hatched in the incubator (turning the eggs manually a few times a day) hatched with a great success rate - we were quite pleased. Recently we decided to put in a second batch, and got 48 hard "boiled" eggs out of the deal. We put the eggs in the incubator, went to check on them a few hours later and it was flashing 40.0 and the high temp warning. Everything inside was hot to the touch and the eggs were cooked.
The research I've done on the cooking eggs indicates you need a temperature over 55C to even begin changing the consistency. So the incubator must have been above that temperature, even with the setting at 38C. A few days ago I tried the incubator again with just one egg and some water to see if it would behave itself, and it maintained temperature properly without any issue. Of course now I'm scared to to leave it unsupervised in case it malfunctions again and does something far worse than cook some eggs.
Has anyone else ever seen this happen? Any theories on what could cause the issue?
The first batch of eggs that we hatched in the incubator (turning the eggs manually a few times a day) hatched with a great success rate - we were quite pleased. Recently we decided to put in a second batch, and got 48 hard "boiled" eggs out of the deal. We put the eggs in the incubator, went to check on them a few hours later and it was flashing 40.0 and the high temp warning. Everything inside was hot to the touch and the eggs were cooked.
The research I've done on the cooking eggs indicates you need a temperature over 55C to even begin changing the consistency. So the incubator must have been above that temperature, even with the setting at 38C. A few days ago I tried the incubator again with just one egg and some water to see if it would behave itself, and it maintained temperature properly without any issue. Of course now I'm scared to to leave it unsupervised in case it malfunctions again and does something far worse than cook some eggs.
Has anyone else ever seen this happen? Any theories on what could cause the issue?