Strange that it posted only part of my reply. At any rate, let's try again:

It all started with your responses Jack, so for that again I must say thanks. I thought I would post some follow up pics and another question for my future modifications.

Oldmac: you say that even 50 psi is too low for aero, but what I think your driving at is that the best aero to use would be one with a very small micron water droplet which is best produced at 100psi. This is technically why foggers work so well however, they have obvious practical implementation issues. I fully understand that the low pressure aero system will not work well in conjunction with the fog, but do my water microns have to be that small especially since I am using fog. My thoughts on the misters were to get a pump from Harbor Freight that is capable of delivering 50 psi and then use a new line of misters that Lowes is carrying now. Here is link to the misters I wanted to use: Misters on Amazon.com They have a mister section that is used commonly with patio cooling systems and a quick test with my garden hose showed that it would produce a very fine mist indeed, but I'm sure it's not as small as 100psi system. I intend to get two or 3 of those big misters and a pump capable of pushing enough pressure through there (tests show 50 psi for these misters) and call it good. Since I am using the fog as well, I probably don't need as fine a mist as true aero growers alone would need. I hate to dump another 300 bucks on a 100psi pump, 100psi misters and all the other stuff when I have something much cheaper and probably just as good as any other high pressure system would have especially since I have fog in there too. If nothing else it has to be better then using the low pressure sprayers that are in there now. Those low pressure sprayers have killed every last hair my roots had developed which I guess was to be expected. I want a system that will give the plants enough nutes as well as water, yet still keep the hairy root benefit. It's obvious to me now that fog alone is not sufficient to carry enough water. Within 2 hours of me turning those sprayers on the plants perked right up and now 3 to 4 days later the plants are twice as big. Whatever I am doing now, it's working

I have noticed that misters like these tend to clog up easily. With the misters I have chosen, I can get a few replacement heads in advance and change them out once a week while I soak the other heads in a cleaning solution. Is it possible that 100psi systems don't clog as much since they have more pressure? If the only benefit of 100psi over 50 psi is smaller micron droplets then I don't think I need to make that heavy of an investment since I want to use fog too. You use fog and misters, you tell me what works.

Long story short Oldmac, can you give me a parts list for your pump, timer and mister heads so I can consider going that route instead of something pieced together from the parts stores.

I am keeping pretty good notes and lots of pics. When I am done with this process I hope to write something up and put it out there for others to see. I think I have encountered just about every problem fog people encounter and now have pretty good solutions and answers to those issues. It wasn't easy getting to this point and yet still I have further to go.

One more thing, on the fog to waste system, which I have considered strongly, what kind of waste do you get at the end of the day? Do you have the fog and misters timed so perfectly that you only end up with a gallon or two of waste water each day? If that's the case then your fan on top idea would work great. The fan would, as you pointed out, never make contact with the mist and would therefore be much more reliable then a fan sitting in the mist.

And another: what do you think of my germ box there? I dropped the hyrdroton level to about 3/4 full in that cup, placed a paper towel on top of that and then a clear dome for the light to get through and boost humidity. I either need to put a vent hole at the top of the clear dome or continue to leave it partially uncovered and this allows the fog to push into that chamber. I have two sprouts in a little dish now that love it in there but I am also doing a test run with some seeds to see how they like that spot. This way they are pretty much living in the same environment from day one. It will be interesting to see how that works. I have been struggling to find the rooter cups everyone loves using here.
Prodaytrader Reviewed by Prodaytrader on . What now??? A few weeks back I built a pure fog system. Plz no suggestions about switching to a new method. I have my reasons for doing fog. At any rate, about 4 days ago I dialed in the system and was getting really good growth and nice green leaves. 3 days ago I decided that the water was too dirty and that I should probably lower the ppm's in the water anyway, so I changed it out. I believe I took too long on the water change which was probably in the neighborhood of an hour. I wasn't careful Rating: 5