Han Grolo
Member
Hello Fellow IC Maggers,
Sometime well over a year ago I had a dream. A dream to make a RDWC system to grow some dank nuggets. Buckets looked nice but appeared to have too many points of failure for my lackie skills. Current cultures are fairly expensive. I hit the ms paint drawing board and came up with a plan. Now dream time is over. This mother is built and been sustaining life for 24 hours.
A tad early to be posting on the internet perhaps but fools rush in. (also my smaller prototype rocked out hard)
So a brief description before the pictures.. Two 10 inch pipes, each 8 feet in length laying side by side on a stand 14 inches off the ground. Every end of the pipe is closed off with a 10 inch removable fernco quick cap. This allows for removal to clean and drain. They have a uniseal drain not unlike the end of an aeroflo unit. I went with 3" drain pipe for water exit speed and to prevent clogging.
Both pipes drain into a long flat 2x1x6 stock tank which has had a 1" bulkhead added to it and feeds a pump back at the other end of the pipes. I used a Gen-X PCX-55hp that comes with 1" MPT fittings on the in and the out. The feed line comes up out of the pump hits a 1.25x1.25x1 tee that splits the feed and increases the pipe size. The feed pipe elbows and goes down into the 10" pipes through a uniseal. Its important not to take the feed pipe all the way to the bottom as a power failure will cause the pipes to siphon out too much water from the pipes.
Many thanks to Big Tokes Bio Buckets How To, this was bio engineered to those specs.
Well Its late for now will elaborate more in the future. If you have any questions lets hear em.
Here's the pics!
Sometime well over a year ago I had a dream. A dream to make a RDWC system to grow some dank nuggets. Buckets looked nice but appeared to have too many points of failure for my lackie skills. Current cultures are fairly expensive. I hit the ms paint drawing board and came up with a plan. Now dream time is over. This mother is built and been sustaining life for 24 hours.
A tad early to be posting on the internet perhaps but fools rush in. (also my smaller prototype rocked out hard)
So a brief description before the pictures.. Two 10 inch pipes, each 8 feet in length laying side by side on a stand 14 inches off the ground. Every end of the pipe is closed off with a 10 inch removable fernco quick cap. This allows for removal to clean and drain. They have a uniseal drain not unlike the end of an aeroflo unit. I went with 3" drain pipe for water exit speed and to prevent clogging.
Both pipes drain into a long flat 2x1x6 stock tank which has had a 1" bulkhead added to it and feeds a pump back at the other end of the pipes. I used a Gen-X PCX-55hp that comes with 1" MPT fittings on the in and the out. The feed line comes up out of the pump hits a 1.25x1.25x1 tee that splits the feed and increases the pipe size. The feed pipe elbows and goes down into the 10" pipes through a uniseal. Its important not to take the feed pipe all the way to the bottom as a power failure will cause the pipes to siphon out too much water from the pipes.
Many thanks to Big Tokes Bio Buckets How To, this was bio engineered to those specs.
Well Its late for now will elaborate more in the future. If you have any questions lets hear em.
Here's the pics!
