GH WATERFARM USERS: SIMPLE RECIRCULATING SYSTEM

[slothy]

okay so let me see if I understand this right.

In the main res (the big one) you have a drip column attached to the intake (which is coming from the individual WF units) and on top it is attached to an air pump which pushes the intake water out to either each individual WF or into the controler (this is the part which confuses me).

So then in each individual WF unit, you have a second drip column inserted but instead of attaching a ring you attach a line which goes back to the main res (which is what i referred to as the "intake" before)

[Weedhound]

This is very true bozo....I've thought about but don't undestand it myself. The way I see it the air pump pulls water in through the intake. Now that there is a void created everything has to fill and the water fills it from the outtake line.....let me try and think of an example.

Think of it as a siphoning thing. If you have a complete circle and you draw something out from one side that something has fill from somehwhere and it does so from the other side due to gravity.

We need X-Crispi or somebody to explain it....they'll understand the theory behind it I think. Or maybe Stinky.....she gets stuff like that.

[Weedhound]

The air pump is acting like a siphon.....pulling air from the last waterfarm out and into the rez. So what basically happens then? That w/f is going to pull water from the next one and so on and so on all the way around the circle......until you come around to the first w/f which is going to pull it from the rez which is the normal way the system fills. . The pump is powering the pulling part.....gravity is handling the pushing part.

If you had everything daisy chained in a circle and took water out from one thing.....what would happen to the rest of them?

[Weedhound]

Ps....COMPLETELY IGNORE THE TOP REZ.....we're only working with the bottom one and top one doesnt affect anything as far as this goes. The top merely holds extra nutes. the nutes in the top rez will NOT recirculate.....does this info help at all?

[GreenLeaf420]

WH you have the set up I seen better PICS. Your forgetting to talk about the actual water pump which draws the water. Were does that fit in to this equation?

It's a good thread you did it that pump that pulls water and goes back to the rez. Were does that fit in?

[Weedhound]

Slothy.....I'm sorry I got confused on the second part of your question there....two drip rings in each individual w/f?

[Weedhound]

AHA! THATS IT EXACTLY!! THERE IS NO WATER PUMP!! NONE!! That's what is so KILLER!! Its as if you took the intake line and wrapped your lips around it and sucked some nute up and then spit it into your rez....What would happen?

[GreenLeaf420]

Finish the Post.... LOL:jointsmile::jointsmile:

[Weedhound]

Well if the water can't refill from the same spot it went out (it can only flow ONE WAY because of the air pump right?) What would happen? It would fill from the other way.....aLL THE WAY AROUND TO REZ right?? Because gravity will fill them all the same.....so take a small amount out of one and they ALL change their amount a bit.

[slothy]

i think i gets it now. So you have the drip tube in the controler, on the bottom its attached to the last waterfarm in the row (or last two water farms if you have 2 rows), on top its attached to a air pump which pushes the water back out to the first waterfarm in the row?