Quote Originally Posted by Thuwadpumper
hey there, just checking in with you to see if you've been able to dig anything up. I hate to be a pest but I was going to add my buckets soon so I'd like to get this thing going. I kinda get that I put another hole on the other side of my buckets and they're all linked together and then the multi port pump just uses the skinny tubing to the drip ring like usual. What I don't really get is the whole res/controller thing and that just putting one of the tubes with a pump into the res is going to circulate the nutes through the entire system of buckets constantly so they're all still on the drip? Thanks for your time, appreciate it!
Yes, keep them all on drip. You will need a seperate airpump (get a single imo) and to daisy chain your buckets together. Your central res will have two holes as well.......one for the water to be pulled in (the exact same way it does in your drip ring in each bucket) with the pump; the other the lets water back to the first waterfarm. The waterfarms work on gravity right?
I think perhaps it seems confusing because yours all all seperate. Once connected together; what happens is basically this. The drip ring in the res pulls water from the first w/f. So what happens? the first one pulls it from the next one (because of gravity the water will want to stay level in all the buckets) and on and on around the circle. The last w/f pulls water from another outlet in the central rez......where guess what???? The water is there because it pulled from the first w/f. Then it all repeats.

Think gravity and leveling water.