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Actually it's collecting dust right now till I finish up these DWC buckets I'm running now :D but it does run, and yea I'd definitely be willing to help in any way I can if u got any questions@SoLowDolo mifhr be able to help. He has one running right now that he assembled not long ago.
Thanks man I have a least a couple months managed to save my grow from my first attempt at a Rdwc. This time I'm going to use 4 Gal square buckets and 1.5" pvc with bulkheads. Going to design it to fit inside my 3'X3'X6 tent with a few cutoffs valves.Actually it's collecting dust right now till I finish up these DWC buckets I'm running now :D but it does run, and yea I'd definitely be willing to help in any way I can if u got any questions
Hell yea bro! That's the way to go. I also went with 4 gallon squares with bulkheads and 1.5" PVC lolThanks man I have a least a couple months managed to save my grow from my first attempt at a Rdwc. This time I'm going to use 4 Gal square buckets and 1.5" pvc with bulkheads. Going to design it to fit inside my 3'X3'X6 tent with a few cutoffs valves.
I'm going to set up the rez behind and outside the tent.Bulk. Heads are the way to go man, leak proof!
Add spigot valves for easy draining, and manifold each bucket meaning straight run which tees and feed each bucket individually with cutoff as you mentioned. Use a reservoir and epi, to help gauge solution conditions
To 2, 4 inch vent openings on each side at the bottom of the tent.I'm going to set up the rez behind and outside the tent.
I already got the rez on order going to use a 120 quart ice chest and the run the pipes out of each side run it up the side's to
I based my system off his videos too lol. You know where the PVC return line is on his system that leads to the inline water pump. Instead of that going straight back to the res, maybe it could split as soon as it comes out of the water pump and a water tube can lead into each bucket. Have them all split at the same point as if it were an air pump. Just drill a hole in the buckets for each tube like you would for the air tubes.I just watched some youtube videos made by this guy Heisen Beans (I figured if he has youtube videos I can post his name) he was building the same system I want to build with all the same size buckets, bulkheads and the same 1.5" pvc pipe. His is just a little bit bigger than the 4 buckets I'm using and I'm using a large ice chest as my rez. It's explained a lot of info I needed to know, but I'm still a little confused about getting water back to the top of the buckets to make a waterfall effect? The system that failed due to uniseales. I used a submersible pump in the rez and ran a 3/4" flexible line to each bucket using T'sand 90 degree fittings I manged to connect it all to a 3/4" hole up on the side and as close to the top of the buckets as I could get. I used a 90 degree pvc fitting just pushed and taped into the 3/4" hole. It really didn't work that good, the first bucket got real good flow the others not so much only had 3 buckets and the last one was barely getting a trickle of water from the top return. I would like to use a inline pump but there is no way to send any H2o to the top of the buckets that way. I don't know if using a submersible pump and using the 3/4" hose with a shutoff valves that would allow me to regulate the flow would work. This is all because I want the waterfall effect inside the buckets.does anybody know what I;m talking about and if you do please tell me so I can know too. I'm sorry for the messed up post before I was using my phone on the way out the door to play in a pool match I won my 8-ball match but in the middle of my 9-ball match my damm back locked up I finished the match but lost.
I am running my first Rdwc system now, using same square buckets. My advise is to make sure you cut wholes for bulkheads so you can almost thread it into whole. Buckets will crack if you have to tighten them hard. Threads leak if whole not formed well.I think it's on this forum a Rdwc someone was building in a 36"X36" tent using 4 square buckets. The unseals on my last system leaked. I manged to save my grow now just a Dwc with 2 airstones. It's a pain in the butt to do ph and tds checks in both 5 gallon buckets. Even before that I was thinking of building another Rdwc using square buckets and pvc. I have time for the build I'm still in the design phase right now. I'm starting with 4 buckets each one is 9.5" X 9.5" holds 4 gallons that have to fit in side my tent 3' X 3'. I think it's going to be a good I know I'm going to use bulkheads, pvc and a few shutoff valves with a 20 gallon rez made out of a ice chest. Has to be a ice chest it gets hot in hell.
In the video he used a 2 1/2" holesaw? I have a couple of buckets I can experiment with I'm wondering if going with a 2 1/4 holesaw?I am running my first Rdwc system now, using same square buckets. My advise is to make sure you cut wholes for bulkheads so you can almost thread it into whole. Buckets will crack if you have to tighten them hard. Threads leak if whole not formed well.
I'm sorry that's what you said. What can I say I'm stoned and using a tablet to post onI am running my first Rdwc system now, using same square buckets. My advise is to make sure you cut wholes for bulkheads so you can almost thread it into whole. Buckets will crack if you have to tighten them hard. Threads leak if whole not formed well.
I used whatever size he used and I still had to shave some plastic off just to get them to fit in the holeIn the video he used a 2 1/2" holesaw? I have a couple of buckets I can experiment with I'm wondering if going with a 2 1/4 holesaw?
The ultimate I think would having to screw in the bulkheads into the buckets?
I am running my first Rdwc system now, using same square buckets. My advise is to make sure you cut wholes for bulkheads so you can almost thread it into whole. Buckets will crack if you have to tighten them hard. Threads leak if whole not formed well.
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