Recent content by XavierFernandez

Holy necromancer! This is 3 years old... I've since moved on to complete 8 successful grows and use recirculating dutch buckets with a custom blend of salts and handmade cree COB led's. I'm good, but thanks for the input.

The squelch of interference, when at its worst, would drown out a tuned-in AM station entirely even at a distance of 20 feet. This test was done on the same z-axis (lighting and radio on the same floor - basement) I could still detect interference on that same station using my car's radio at...

I paid $220.49+ship with a free remote. I've got 3 hours on the ballast (it reads 1 because I believe its a x10 scale on the odometer) trying to troubleshoot the issue. I'm hoping to return it for credit towards a new mag and some other junk. Maybe I'll trade it for a phantom and try that. I'm...

I'm going to put my vote for mag, even though I so badly wanted to take the leap to digital. I've seen you speaking highly of solis-tek matrix ballasts and their lack of RF interference in previous posts. I just got one from growershouse and the second I fired it up I realized it obliterated...

That makes sense to me. I was calibrated with 1500 Ppm solution and 7.01.ph right after I bought it on Monday. I checked it last night for fun and it's still bang on.

PPM itself is an exact reading with a measurable concentration (mg/L) but without specifying the CF you cant tell me to aim for X ppm on a meter. Your meter and my meter can read different PPM if our conversion factors are not the same. Our meters predict it (using EC as the actual measured...

I agree the levels were high (I was just following the lucas formula) I have since lowered them to 1.4ec ( 980 ppm ) The volume of water is absolutely relevant when calculating combined PPM's of two separate concentrations. If I have 1 gallon of 200ppm and add 0.5 gallons of 0ppm (distilled)...

If all it is missing is Nitrogen why not add some gro as many do?

See that's the frustrating part of all this. Many people say Lucas formula is safe and easy for beginners...but you get high PPM's 1300-1500 (or EC of 2.0+) which seemed crazy to me too. 150PPM + tap doesnt really make sense. Since you dont mix your nutes and then add to tap...you're measuring...

63 views and nobody knows? ;(

Hey guys, long time lurker...first time poster. :dunce: This is kind of a long-winded post but I want to make sure I provide all relevant info in order to get the advice I need. I recently inherited a little girl in a container just slightly bigger than a solo cup. She is about 12" tall and is...