Installing Your Grumbach Incubator; The Incubating Room - Procon Grumbach MP GTFS Operating Manual

Installing your Grumbach Incubator

Dear Customer!
For your GRUMBACH-incubator we would like to wish you every success. Before you
start incubating you should read the manual.

The incubating room

The operating conditions can be different according to the place of setting. Compo-
nents like the outside temperature, outer humidity, strength of the electric current can
be relevant.
Your incubator should be installed in a room free of an excess amount of vibration like
passing cars and trucks or other machinery. Basements are an ideal place, normally
they offer an optimal incubating room climate. The temperature where your machine is
installed should be around 18-20 degrees Celsius / 60-65 degrees and not higher than
25 °C!
Hygiene is absolutely necessary in the incubating room. Bacteria, virus and fungi which
are brought to the room with shoes can get into the incubator if you allow them to stay
in the incubating room. The floor should be disinfected at least once a week and all
surfaces ( of the incubator and others) must be kept clean.
Check out your incubator before using it!
Despite all care and effort to insure safe transportation, you should thoroughly check out
all systems to make sure the unit is functioning properly. A 2-3 days run without eggs
should be carried out.
Starting
Make sure you are familiar with the incubator and its controls. After putting the plug
into a 230 voltage safety socket which is according to the regulations, your incubator
is operational.
Security thermostat
Additionally we installed a security thermostat in all incubators, which prevents over-
heating. For safety reasons, the adjustment has to be done with a thin screw driver:
1
/ of a turning is equal to 1 °C. A turn to the right causes an increase of the shut down
10
temperature, a turn to the left reduces it.
The shutting down of the temperature will be confirmed with a quiet click and the extinc-
tion of the thermo- and the humidity control lights.
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