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So far my house Of hydro misters have been used as a diy humidifier for months no issues. Baring in mind clones don’t use nutes so the corrosion of low ppm tap water is very low. Also house of hydro ain’t no cheap Chinese crap. They have anti corrosion plating

OneHit has a spinning disc type mister out of some model of humidifier. Have been looking for a cheap source for years. Remember seeing , first hand, some on handheld booms used with backpacks for application of something on tobacco crops back in 80's. Very fine micronised mist. Dewey misters seem like a nice simple option.

 

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I plan to have 3 tables 14 x 4 ft and res will be 750l.

I’m setting up 3 2 inch solenoid valve that switches Between the tables using an arduino

Have you looked at mapito or Fytocell type media (aminoplast). Think commercial players go few cycles before discarding in big f/d setups.

 

[klx]

Havnt got to that part of my build yet. Could learn from your mistake. Which relays do you recommend? I was gonna use an ardunio one on amazon...

Go for single channel relays and good brands. That way if you do have a failure it is easy to swap one out.

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[SamWE19]

OneHit has a spinning disc type mister out of some model of humidifier. Have been looking for a cheap source for years. Remember seeing , first hand, some on handheld booms used with backpacks for application of something on tobacco crops back in 80's. Very fine micronised mist. Dewey misters seem like a nice simple option.

I think house of hydro are reasonably priced for what you get.

The reason I’m not building my room yet is because I want to get everything perfect.

speaking of misters that’s something else I’m looking into. Automatic foliar

you know those misters you get in hot countries and they spray you with a fine mist tocool
You down? Im
Thinking of putting a hose line across my canopy basically between my leds shooting downwards to the canopy and having an automated pump in a foliar feed bucket

not sure if I want to foliar feed for sure yet so I’m working on this

 

[SamWE19]

Have you looked at mapito or Fytocell type media (aminoplast). Think commercial players go few cycles before discarding in big f/d setups.

Don’t want to have to deal with disposing of anything. It’s a bloody nightmare disposing of the stems as it is.

im building a large electric foundry as we speak to deal with this. Burning bins give off too much smell so I’ve designed a foundry that gets to 1000c and has a sealed lid so no smoke or smell escapes whilst it’s obliterated

 

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Don’t want to have to deal with disposing of anything. It’s a bloody nightmare disposing of the stems as it is.

im building a large electric foundry as we speak to deal with this. Burning bins give off too much smell so I’ve designed a foundry that gets to 1000c and has a sealed lid so no smoke or smell escapes whilst it’s obliterated

Can get rid of bodies too. Remind me not to cross you. Have you looked at using a spreader mat for the roots instead of hydroton?

 

[SamWE19]

Can get rid of bodies too. Remind me not to cross you. Have you looked at using a spreader mat for the roots instead of hydroton?

spreader mats only coat the bottom of the flood table though? What goods that do when the water spreads on it’s own anyway?

 

[SamWE19]

Go for single channel relays and good brands. That way if you do have a failure it is easy to swap one out.

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You talking about using one for your lights so high wattage?
Maybe not a large factor for 150w water pumps

I may build an ardunio controller just for my lights though. Probably more reliable than my timers I have atm

 

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I think house of hydro are reasonably priced for what you get.

The reason I’m not building my room yet is because I want to get everything perfect.

speaking of misters that’s something else I’m looking into. Automatic foliar

you know those misters you get in hot countries and they spray you with a fine mist tocool
You down? Im
Thinking of putting a hose line across my canopy basically between my leds shooting downwards to the canopy and having an automated pump in a foliar feed bucket

not sure if I want to foliar feed for sure yet so I’m working on this

My attraction for the spinning disc atomiser was the durability and simplicity. No need for pumps of nozzles. Unclogging etc. Again, for cloning, dewey misters seem like a reliable option with minimal moving parts.

 

[klx]

You talking about using one for your lights so high wattage?
Maybe not a large factor for 150w water pumps

I may build an ardunio controller just for my lights though. Probably more reliable than my timers I have atm

I have everything running through relays, lights, pumps, fans etc. Raspberry pi as the controller. Mycodo as the software. Might use home assistant next time as it seems to habe a big user base and wont disappear one day

 

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spreader mats only coat the bottom of the flood table though? What goods that do when the water spreads on it’s own anyway?

Something for the roots to hold onto? You could flood and drain with no media whatsoever. But plants need supporting.

 

[SamWE19]

My attraction for the spinning disc atomiser was the durability and simplicity. No need for pumps of nozzles. Unclogging etc. Again, for cloning, dewey misters seem like a reliable option with minimal moving parts.

Just searched those misters up. Hadn’t heard of them. I don’t really like the idea of multiple air line hoses all over the place.

I like the idea of having a large barrel filled with water and a mister in that. Sealed lid. A fan on a timer that blows the mist into the cloner. You could have one two inch pipe per 200 clones

 

[SamWE19]

Something for the roots to hold onto? You could flood and drain with no media whatsoever. But plants need supporting.

Oh they’d be supported by a neoprene ring within a piece of polycarbonate roofing stuck to an inch of XPS foam to keep my res cool

 

[SamWE19]

I have everything running through relays, lights, pumps, fans etc. Raspberry pi as the controller. Mycodo as the software. Might use home assistant next time as it seems to habe a big user base and wont disappear one day

Does a single raspberry pi run absolutely everything?

Havnt looked into raspberry pi yet only arduino. Wonder if it’s better. I know when I was looking into ardunio an issue I was constantly running into is not enough output ports and needing to use extenders

 

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I have everything running through relays, lights, pumps, fans etc. Raspberry pi as the controller. Mycodo as the software. Might use home assistant next time as it seems to habe a big user base and wont disappear one day

Really envious of anyone implementing microcontrollers. My experience is limited to basic arduino timers coupled to those single songli relays similar to what you posted above. The thought of recording environmental stats is appealing.

 

[SamWE19]

Really envious of anyone implementing microcontrollers. My experience is limited to basic arduino timers coupled to those single songli relays similar to what you posted above. The thought of recording environmental stats is appealing.

I wasn’t sure it was possible to find co2 sensors etc for ardunios/ raspberry pie. But if you can it’s definitely something I’ll be doing


Edit just had a quick google looks like the senseair s8 is decent? Co2 sensor I may start messing about with this soon

 

[Airwalker16]

Every 2 hours for 15 minutes. First flood at lights on, last flood at lights off.

My clay is old too. I have added a bag here or there but most of it is over 5 years old.

Oh wow so they're getting zero water for 12hrs(at lights off)?

 

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I wasn’t sure it was possible to find co2 sensors etc for ardunios/ raspberry pie. But if you can it’s definitely something I’ll be doing

Seen a few with affordable variants around. MH-Z xx something. Best to check library availabilty and connectivity (uart/spi/i2c) depending on how you want to run them (arduino or other).

 

[SamWE19]

Xlx does raspberry pi allow concurrent programming? So if I wanted the controller to monitor and log measurements and at the same time run a loop for flooding and draining at the same time and also monitoring co2 and turning the co2 Burner off and on all concurrently ?

 

[Airwalker16]

Mainly the res size needed to flood a giant table. If your tables are 4 x 14ft. How many are there and how big is your rez going to be?

3.5 x the res size of a 4x4. :#