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06-16-2007, 06:51 AM #7
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is this system a good buy?
A few things... Like others have said, you can duplicate this system for lots less than the quoted price- and a 400 is a much better sized light for something this size. A little clever shopping at ye olde dollar junque shoppe, a hardware store and an aquarium shop and you're home and hosed. If you use a 400 and DIY the rest of it, you should still come in well under $USD200.
This system looks like a water-pumper type aero. Whenever you force nute solutions through a small aperture, for a drip or an aero, the spray/drip apertures require frequent cleaning or they will clog. They may just clog anyway!
A filter on the pump intake is highly desirable if not totally necessary.
There's a way around this clogging issue in aero, though. You could flood the tubes to 1-2" and put air stones/bubble curtains in the bottoms of the flooded tubes. The bubbles breaking the surface of the water create a fine, highly oxygenated nute mist without forcing nute sol'n through a nozzle. Still would need a water pump to move nute sol'n up to the PVC pipes in this system.
A simpler way to do it is to eliminate the PVC pipes (and water pump); just use a fairly deep storage tub (~18-24") or rubbish bin, fill 1/4 depth with nute sol'n and put bubble curtains in that. Plants in netpots of clay pellets would sit in appropriately sized holes in the tub lid.
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