Giant
Active Member
I am trying to design a reasonably simple recirculating DWC system. I had good success in hempy last time, but I want to keep moving up. So far, I have bought a 250 GPH pump, 5gal buckets with netpot lids, air pumps and stones, and all the necessary tubing and fittings.
Now I am stuck on how this is all going to work. How do I keep from overfilling/underfilling the buckets? If I have a pump that is filling the buckets, and one that is pushing the water back to the control tank, how do I keep them moving the same amount of water? If one is slightly faster than the other one, wont something eventually overflow or run dry?
Am I overthinking this? Should I just put the fill line at the top, the drain line at the bottom of the bucket, and let gravity do the res? Do I even need a pump to send the water back to the controller?
Now I am stuck on how this is all going to work. How do I keep from overfilling/underfilling the buckets? If I have a pump that is filling the buckets, and one that is pushing the water back to the control tank, how do I keep them moving the same amount of water? If one is slightly faster than the other one, wont something eventually overflow or run dry?
Am I overthinking this? Should I just put the fill line at the top, the drain line at the bottom of the bucket, and let gravity do the res? Do I even need a pump to send the water back to the controller?