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Shawnery
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Your trying to balance hydraulic pressure and slight differences between the two sides can make a difference. Possibly an easy way to fix it is use two pumps, one to feed each side but still one reservoir.
I've built a 9 x 5 gallon RDWC one pot being the res. The feed lines are 1/4 with 180 degree sprayers on the end. The return lines are 1/2 inch. There are air stones in each pot as well as the res. There is one 350gph water pump in the res pulling from the returns and pushing to the sprayers.
Problem is I keep having problems with the water level staying the same on both sides of the setup and in each bucket.
Exactly what should be looking at for the cause of this issue because I'm kind of lost?
Then you have three optionsSomeone in another thread was saying the same thing about return lines but in reference to not running sprayers at all.
Considering the work that goes into plumbing these bad boys I assume waiting till next round is best.
The pump sits in the middle of the res and is not hooked up to anything but the sprayers. As for running two I start to worry about water temps. I tried it before and the temps got a little crazy.
I just tried a sprayer setup this weekend and there was no regularity in output. Some are cranking, some are not. I think that is his main problem.I run a 8 bucket RDWC system plumbed back into a central 18g rez. Simple gravity return but I have elevated my buckets about 3" above the rez to create a pressure gradient. As long as there are no restrictions in the return line it's just about finding the right balance between total system volume and dripper rate. Once I figured that out it's pretty much fill and grow.
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