Back in the Hydro Saddle - OneHitDone Aero-Hydroponics!

Back to where my heart truly lies - Hydroponics!
I am the type that enjoys all forms of gardening and growing plants of all types but Hydroponics has always had a particular interest to me.
Combing plant growth with mechanical tinkering just keeps things interesting.
Finally took the plunge and built the system I had been thinking about for quite some time. It all goes back to the early 2000's when I built a DIY version of a General Hydroponics AeroFlo system.
OneHItDone ingenuity circa 2003:

Fast forward to 2025.
After having built and grown with many different forms of Hydroponic systems and even going the Organic Soil route for a decent amount of time, I come back to hydro armed with a lot more knowledge and clear goals for the system I have now built.
It is a hybrid of the General Hydroponics AeroFlo design with some changes that are great improvements to me.
The original AeroFlo had "spray lines" inside of the square channels that made cleaning and monitoring water flow a real pain in the ass.
Combined with the Chanels being essentially sealed at both ends further adding to difficult cleaning.
There was also an Overflow tube that was just a piece of 1 1/2" thin wall pvc if I remember correctly that could be moved up and down in a grommet to vary the water level inside of the channels. Water up to the bottom of the net pots when plants are young, lower the drain as the roots develop increasing oxygen inside of the channels.
My new system does not maintain a high water level expert for in 1 "nursery" channel I build specifically for seedlings. The rest of the channels drain freely into the main drain manifold.
Nutrient is now delivered via external tubing rather than the internal spray lines. There are NO sprayers inside of the channels, Just open drip tube fittings squirting a stream near each net pot.
My system is now double stacked so I wanted to keep things as low as possible and keep the reservoirs outside of the grow chambers.
The lower Flower systems drain into Condensate pumps that send the nutrient solution back to the reservoirs.
The upper Veg system drains back to the reservoir by gravity.
Time for some photo's.

Cloning Situation

Beautiful, clean work! Really well done. Such healthy ladies, which nutes are you running? Sterile or bennies? I have a very similar set up, a hydrid aero/nft perpetual grow in pvc rails. Very little maintenance and great results. I'm subbed...