Bignutes
Well-Known Member
I am building a sip with the intent that anyone can use it regardless of soil type, wick size, air gap, etc. Got done conceptualizing this, took a while but got it together, got some serious symptoms from doing this but I think it's finally hangin and bangin, quite literally.
Ok so I went thru 45 pages of sip thread out of 123, got some major headaches and it became quite apparent to me that everyone has their own build, their own soil, wick is different, the list goes on and on. So unless you replicate the exact conditions, there probably going to be a dialing in with major changes but after a full grow cycle with another round of testing. I wanted to avoid that and well see if this concept proves itself.
So the sip is based on capillary action, it's also based on head, no people not blow jobs here, head is a hydraulic term used to describe the elevation of a column of fluid above a reservoir. Also this capillary action that induces head also fights gravity. It's an opposing set of forces at play, the wick column wants to move fluid up, gravity wants to move it down, where it rests is up to a bunch of variables. These variables are what I hope to design out of the sip, so anyone can build a sip and the design can be modified on the fly to get optimum performance.
How does this work, you change the balancing act of those two forces, head and gravity. You do this by changing the elevation the water has to travel upwards.
So here it is, still untested but looks pretty cool, the hanging garden of Babylon SIP. Now let's see if it works.
Ok so I went thru 45 pages of sip thread out of 123, got some major headaches and it became quite apparent to me that everyone has their own build, their own soil, wick is different, the list goes on and on. So unless you replicate the exact conditions, there probably going to be a dialing in with major changes but after a full grow cycle with another round of testing. I wanted to avoid that and well see if this concept proves itself.
So the sip is based on capillary action, it's also based on head, no people not blow jobs here, head is a hydraulic term used to describe the elevation of a column of fluid above a reservoir. Also this capillary action that induces head also fights gravity. It's an opposing set of forces at play, the wick column wants to move fluid up, gravity wants to move it down, where it rests is up to a bunch of variables. These variables are what I hope to design out of the sip, so anyone can build a sip and the design can be modified on the fly to get optimum performance.
How does this work, you change the balancing act of those two forces, head and gravity. You do this by changing the elevation the water has to travel upwards.
So here it is, still untested but looks pretty cool, the hanging garden of Babylon SIP. Now let's see if it works.
