Design and Construction the Control sets of Egg Incubator by Microcontroller Systems

Abstract

This paper presents the design and construction of an incubator control with a microcontroller system. Instruments used in this research include a microcontroller to control the temperature and humidity, and control operation of the stepper motor. The design and construction of an incubator measuring 50 × 80 cm, eggs can contain a maximum of 60 eggs. The control process is divided into 2 parts: 1) control the function of the lamp to maintain the temperature level and regulate humidity, and humidity control which acts as a mist sprayer when the humidity is below the specified threshold. And 2) control the function of flipping eggs during 3 hours at a time, for ease of use with an automated 18 day incubation process.

Experimental results. Found that, the process of controlling the temperature in the incubator works to maintain the temperature of 37 °C, and the humidity level was 66-69%. The results of the egg flip performance experiment worked in a range of 3 hours at a time. It was found to be 100% effective at flipping eggs. And the experiment results for incubating 16 chicken eggs were found to hatch 10 eggs or the value of 62.50%