Procon Grumbach CTD7 User manual

Manual for Incubator
Operating Manual for Incubator
CTD7

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Content
Installing your Grumbach Incubator ................................................................4
Safety instructions ...................................................................................... 4
Important!.................................................................................................. 4
The incubating room.................................................................................. 4
Safety thermostat ....................................................................................... 5
Tank flap .................................................................................................... 6
Turning of eggs.......................................................................................... 6
Light switch ................................................................................................ 6
Putting in the eggs .................................................................................... 6
The hatch ................................................................................................... 7
Cleansing and disinfection......................................................................... 8
Operation..................................................................................................... 10
Technical data..........................................................................................11
Service.....................................................................................................11
Home .......................................................................................................12
Menu ....................................................................................................... 13
1. Temperature and humidity target........................................................14
2. Cooling Phases .................................................................................... 15
3. Rotation phase.....................................................................................16
4. Offset, temperature unit ..................................................................... 17
5. Brood Calendar, data logging and language ........................................ 18
6. Limits ................................................................................................... 19
7. E-mail, live data.................................................................................... 20
8. Device description, display settings .................................................... 21
9. Test...................................................................................................... 22
10.1 Ethernet Connection (LAN) ............................................................23
10.2 WiFi connection (WLAN) .................................................................24
11. Error page ..........................................................................................25

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12. Info page............................................................................................26
Web browser .............................................................................................. 27
1. Home ................................................................................................... 27
2. Calendar............................................................................................... 28
3. Graph ................................................................................................... 29
2. Logs ..................................................................................................... 30
3. Website ProCon-Grumbach.................................................................31
Breeding recommendation.......................................................................... 32
attachment 1: Privacy Policy .......................................................................33

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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.
Safety instructions
We accept no liability for damage caused by non-observance of these
instructions or improper handling. In these cases, all warranty claims expire.
Read these instructions completely before using the incubator
for the first time!
For safety reasons, any unauthorized design changes to the device and the
components intended for use with the device are not permitted!
The determination of valid measurement results, conclusions and measures
derived therefrom are the sole responsibility of the user! A liability or
guarantee for the correctness of the provided results (data) is excluded. Under
no circumstances will liability be assumed for damages resulting from the use
of the retrieved measurement results.
Important!
Be sure to pull the electrical plug to disconnect from power supply before
cleaning the incubator.
For incubator CTD7, please check the filters regularly every eight days. In
young birds with feathers, dust formation is very high.
The incubating room
The operating conditions can be different according to the place of setting.
Components 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

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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 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.
Inspect your incubator before using!
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 plugging
into a properly grounded 230 voltage safety socket, which is according to the
regulations, your incubator is operational.
Safety thermostat
Additionally, we installed a safety thermostat in all incubators, which prevents
over- heating. For safety reasons, the adjustment is made with a thin screw
driver:
1/10 of a turning is equal to 1 °C. A turn to the right causes an increase of the
shutdown temperature, a turn to the left reduces it.
The shutting down of the temperature will be confirmed with a quiet click and
the extinction of the thermo- and the humidity control lights.
It is necessary that the stopper is fixed to its shut down temperature after the
test run. Please turn it very carefully, as a minimum turn already changes the
shutdown temperature.
When you let the temperature rise with the thermo adjustment you can
decide about the exact shut down temperature. The shutdown temperature
should be at least 1 °C above the incubating temperature because the feeler
sensor of the protective thermostat is located next to the heating spiral and
senses a higher temperature there than inside the breeding room.

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Tank flap
The flap is only to be used when you wish to reduce humidity while the tank
is full. Behind the knob is a flap which opens or closes the installed filler pipes.
Position 3 means “open”. This adjustment is necessary if you use the
automatic humidity, so humid air can be blown from the tank into the breeding
room. The six o’clock setting means that the flap closes the tank and no
unnecessary moisture enters the incubating chamber; additionally, the set
value for the moisture must be reduced to 5 %. This rotary control saves a
pouring out of the water from the tank when the air humidity in the breeding
room has gone up.
Turning of eggs
There are trays situated in every incubator to hold the eggs. The ground of
these trays is made of covered punch metal. The eggs must be laid on the
rollers so that the pointed sides are opposite the blunt sides (in such a way,
that the blunt ends and the pointed ends point towards each other). This
prevents a rolling away of the eggs into one direction. Always fill the trays
from the middle to the outside to support the air circulation.
The eggs should lie on the trays horizontally during incubating. It does not
matter though if the eggs are half diagonal- if done so the capacity is higher.
Depending on the egg, from the 1st to the 3rd breeding day, they can be
turned. In manual machines the turning is done by pushing the egg tray to the
back of the incubator, then pulling to the front.
Light switch
The light switch works the light for the breeding room of the incubator. With
normal switching, the light stays on for at least 1minute. This time prologues
when you use switches on the touch panel. If you want the light to stay on
permanently Turn on the light switch while holding for 2 seconds.
Putting in the eggs
If the incubator has been working without faults during a 2-3 days testing
period, you can start to put in the eggs. Once the eggs are inside the incubator
the temperature will fall. There is no need to worry- because, when the

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incubator was open, a lot of heat has escaped, and the temperature of the
eggs is much lower. It would be wrong to turn up
the heat, as the eggs first must adopt the breeding temperature. After a few
hours the thermometer will show the correct temperature.
The eggs trays with rollers are adjustable to each size of egg by fitting the
gaps between the rollers to the egg size, the egg lies horizontally on two
rollers. The eggs’ blunt ends should lie towards each other blunt ends and the
pointed eggs towards each other, so the eggs do not pile up.
Incubating temperature
The ideal temperature recommended by experts is 37,5 °C in the beginning.
A proven fact is, that the temperature to strive for is 37,8 °C / 100 °F. For the
three days before hatching the temperature can be about 0,5 °C to 1 °C less.
The hatch
If the incubating has gone well, you can be relaxed while you await the day
of hatching. You should then move the eggs to the Hatcher, or, if you plan to
do the hatching in the same incubator, suit the temperature and the humidity
to the eggs. Take out the trays with rollers and put the eggs on the grating
floor. It is often more favorable to put the eggs in special hatching trays.
To avoid bad pollution during hatching you could cover the floor of the
incubator with paper before. The temperature for the hatch should be around
37° C. To raise the intake of oxygen for the chicks, experts recommend
putting eggs into a diluted hydrochloric acid solution. This will remove the
layer of fat. (5 liters of water, 1 tablespoon of 18 per cent hydrochloric acid).
The temperature in the leach should be about 37 °C, after the bath the eggs
should be cleaned thoroughly with fresh water (also 37 °C warm). For other
eggs it is enough to brush of the layer of fat carefully to enable a better way
through for the oxygen.
To supply the eggs with the necessary humidity during the hatch, at first, the
openings for the fresh air should stay closed. By adjusting the openings, you
can dispense the humidity in the incubator.
Please do not open the incubator unnecessarily until the last chick has freed
itself from its shell.

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Cleansing and disinfection
After the completed hatch, the incubator should be cleaned thoroughly with
a damp cloth. The drawers can be scoured with soapy water and the trays of
Compact and closet incubators can be just cleaned with water. After that, the
incubator should be heated and disinfected.
Before the eggs are put in, you could disinfect those reliably with our
recommended disinfectant. Afterwards you should let some air in. When the
incubating season is over, and the incubator has been cleaned thoroughly it
should be left open, so the humidity
left in the incubator can escape. Before the next incubating, it is necessary to
clean the filter and change the filter paper.
It is senseless to ignore little faults and hope that they can repaired later. The
incubator must work faultlessly.
The determination of valid measurement results, conclusions and
measures derived therefrom are exclusively subject to the user's own
responsibility! A liability or guarantee for the correctness of the
provided results (data) is excluded. In no case will liability be assumed
for damages resulting from the use of the retrieved measurement
results.

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Checkpoints before putting in the eggs:
•Range of temperature
•constant temperature
•air humidity
•noise pollution
Incubator:
•horizontal position of the incubator
•measuring instruments (thermometer)
•operating elements (controls)
•test run
•water sterilized by boiling
•trouble-free running
Applies to all menu items:
All values which have to be changed during operation in the menu are
directly confirmed on the respective page and are then only active.
The changed values become active with a time delay. All values of the
individual menu items refer to 24 hours.

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Operation
1. Premium Touch Display
2. Main switch
3. Water fill in/Water drain plug
4. Tank flap
5. Fresh air
6. Egg trays with rollers
7. Security thermostat

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Technical data
Voltage 230 V
Frequency 50th... 60 Hz
Rating: 500 w/AC-1
Capacity of different egg sizes per turning horde:
Eggs
Bantams
Parrot
Pheasants
Quail
Ducks
Geese
EMU
Nandu
Ostriches
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Service
ProCon automatic systems GmbH & Co. KG ·Bettwiesenweg 18 · D-35325
Mücke Phone [phone] · Fax +49 +49 (0) 64 00/956 91-29
E-mail: [e-mail] ·
Internet: www.grumbach brutgeraete.de
Important!
Since 1 January 1996, the CE marking has been compulsory in conjunction with the
EMC Directive.
Our products are subject to DIN EN 55104 (December 1995) regarding the immunity
of household appliances and meet the EMC requirements.
If the incubator is disturbed by high-frequency currents from the network, a temporary
impairment of the operating behavior may occur. After the fault, the device works as
intended.

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Home
Important!
Be sure to unplug the appliance before cleaning the incubator.
For incubator CTD7 Please check the filters regularly every eight
days. In the case of young animals with plumage, dust.
1 menu/home
2 page back
3
page forward
4 temperature
5 humidity/water tank
6
cooling
7
turn/unlock
8
Setpoint
temperature
9
humidity
10
light
11
calendar breeding
time (visible, if
active-see under
point 5-)

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Menu
Configuration sites can be reached via (<) and (>) buttons, as well as the
(☰) button.
1
Temperature and
humidity set points
2 Cooling phases
3 Rotation phases
4 Offset and
temperature unit
5
Breed calendar,
screen lock, logging
6 Threshold values
7 Email and internet
connection
8
Display and language
settings
9
Test site
10 Ethernet (network
cable) / Wifi
11
Error page
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Info page

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1. Temperature and humidity target
This menu can also be reached on the home screen by touching the
temperature or humidity.
Note:
If the slider and the buttons are disabled (grayed out), the calendar is
active (see Under point 5. Brood Calendar, data logging went,
language).
1
Set point
temperature
2
Set point humidity
3
Humidity regulation
active/inactive

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2. Cooling Phases
Please note that no active cooling is possible. The "cooling" of the brood
chamber is based on the supplied air of the room.
Note:
If the slider and the buttons are disabled (grayed out), the calendar is
active (see Under point 5. Brood Calendar, data logging went,
language).
1
Cooling phase
length (1-90
minutes)
2
When activated, the
set cooling time will
vary by up to 30%
3
Cooling per day (0-
12)
4
When activated, the
set cooling rate is
varied up to 30%

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3. Rotation phase
Note:
If the slider and the buttons are disabled (grayed out), the calendar is
active (see Under point 5. Brood Calendar, data logging went,
language).
1
Rotation time (1-30
minutes)
2
When activated, the
set rotation time will
vary by up to 30%
3
Rotations per day (0-
24)
4
When activated, the
set rotation quantity
is varied up to 30%

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4. Offset, temperature unit
To obtain the highest possible accuracy of temperature and relative humidity,
we recommend you the use of the supplied Capillary Thermometer and Hair
Hygrometer.
1
corrected temperature
2
corrected humidity
3
Selection: Celsius,
Fahrenheit, Kelvin

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5. Brood Calendar, data logging and
language
The breeding time display and the setting of the incubation day are only valid
if the calendar is activated.
Note:
If the calendar is enabled, only the values entered in the Web browser
are accepted (see Web browser Sub 2nd. Calendar.)
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Selection of breeding
start day
2
Automatic screen
lock. To unlock, press
the cooling
icon(bottom right) for
3 seconds
3
Activation of the
breeding calendar
configured via
Browser
4
Restart of the
breeding cycle
including rotation and
cooling phase
5
Log to USB-Stick Logs
the device status
every minute an
FAT16/FAT32/FAText
formatted USB-Stick

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6. Limits
A tolerance value monitors unusual fluctuation in temperature and humidity
outside the cooling phases. As soon as the desired temperature and target
humidity has been reached, the tolerance monitoring begins.
If the present temperature/humidity is outside the tolerance value, the
background color of the temperature/humidity changes to red, as well as a
corresponding error on the error page is visible. In addition, the alarm is also
triggered if there is no approximation to the target temperature/target air
humidity for an extended period. This also triggers any set alarm mails and
can be viewed in the log as well as the browser.
1
Tolerance Value
temperature
2
Tolerance Value Humidity
3
Establishing the breeding
standard (default)

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7. E-mail, live data
If you want to keep up-to-date with important values of your incubator, there
are several possibilities:
•Receive emails when there is an alarm
•Track emails about the state every n hours, as well as live data
of the incubator by browser.
Note: Default is 0 hrs = inactive.
1
Email address Enter email
address for alert and status
emails
2
Alarm interval in hours
before this email is resent
3
Interval of status emails
4
Send the state data to our
servers.
Https://procon-grumbach.de
(see Web browser

3rd.Procon-Grumbach)