joehank
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correct, and the same thing will happen here also, but since the barrel is taller than the sites, they will all be at an equal level and will not overflow should a failure occur.
I see his containers sitting on 3 cinderblocks and a piece of wood, so about 25 inches from floor. Add 13 inches for tub and another 5 for lid, thats 43 inches to top of netpot. I only have 7 feet to work with, which leaves only 3 feet of vertical plant space.
I would need to get the sites lower and the far end of the drain higher to make this work for me. Possibly even feed the sites from the top...
as far as I know it started with a krusty bucket and everyone added there own twist as it developed
Not here, gonna have to google it.Cap I can't seem to find that it's here on the farm? What forums?
i've never seen the second that you mention. 'have no idea how that could work. can you show an example?
In DD's first version of the MPB, the drain was above the feed forcing water upwards like in thompson's system. He later changed it so that the drain was below the feed so that water was flowing downward. I believe this was to stop the drain from only being halfway submerged.
as far as i can make out, from the pics i've seen of his later buckets, is that the drains are in the same location . . . . but the feed as been moved to the top of the water level (the same level as the drains). i'm working off of the few pics posted in the "10 lb" thread.
several of us inquired about the plumbing changes, but dd hasn't shared an explanation. if that is, in fact, the feed up there at the same level as the drains, it raises a few more questions.
how do you address the "short circuiting" of the water flow? the water would tend to move more directly between feed and drain, and decrease circulation in the bucket.
how do you drain the system for rez changes? in every mpb system i've personally seen, you by-pass the check valve on the feed line to drain the buckets. if that feed line is moved to the top of the buckets, how do you empty them?
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