Thanks. Yeah, that might work - simply an incubator with a fan in it.
We want to avoid plastics and adhesives in case the volatiles affect the
insects - but maybe I could line something like that with foil.
Was also thinking of a bacteria plate incubator with a fan in it.
Someone on another board recommended a GC oven, but we tried that and
for some reason we weren't getting efficient heat transfer to the bugs -
especially for the 30 second trials (probably because of the metal mesh
cages we are using - but the larger pilot scale packing line fruit drier
was working well I think because the fans in that were stronger).
Aaron T. Dossey, Ph.D.
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
On 1/11/2011 12:21 PM, malcolm McCallum wrote:
why not just use a chick incubator? hovabator makes one you could
use. Alternatively, you could easily make one out of a styrofoam
chest. Do a google search on do-it-yourself chick incubator styrofoam
chest and you should find it pretty easily.
malcolm mccallum
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Aaron T. Dossey <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello,
I need to do some survivability tests on insects in a rapidly
circulating warm (90-150 F) air environment. I need the
temperature to be accurately maintained and measured and rapidly
obtained. The incubation will be short: 30 seconds to 5 minutes
max (maybe only 3 minutes).
Any recommendations on apparati I could get for such experiments?
Thanks,
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Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
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