I got this as a gift after being slightly used for christmas of 2001. It has seen alot of shelf time over these years but I love it. I added the turbo fan kit after a couple years of owning it and noticed that it goes through alot more humidity but I don't get the sticky, prolapsed chicks I was before. I have used the gqf universal/quail turner every time I've run it and gotten 80-90% hatches unless the eggs I set were no good. The thermostat finally went out in early spring of 2010 and that is only a $20 part. Overall I love this incubator and have had much better rusults that most people I know that run a little giant. I have no idea how old mine is because it dose not have the rounded corners of the current "generation" of hovabators. The only things I would change is put a digital thermostat with push button adjustment and a digital read out and a way to add humidity from the outside, but for the price compared to other models of similar capacity, I've seen, I can't complain.