4 Reservoirs… 1 Chiller

ttystikk said:

I'm not a fan of aeroponics because it's unforgiving. It's also no faster than RDWC and a lot less robust.

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Shroominnm said:

I did sort of what your talking about! I had multiple reservoirs, and I got online and ordered a power steering pump cooler or whatever it is, a mini radiator basically. It had a half inch nipple in and one out so I just ran a half inch line from one res- through my active aqua chiller and into the next reservoir, where it would cycle through the power steering pump chiller and then back into res #1. Someone on here actually gave me the idea! I'll take some pics when I get off work. It works great I live somewhere where the Temps can get up there in the summer and with this, each res stayed at real life Temps 60-65. Give it a shot!

I have recently fixed the water on the lids which caused algea , this was a previous grow.


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Shroominnm said:

Sorry about the three posts don't flame me lol

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Budley Doright said:

I've been looking on Amazon and other places and wort chillers start at $150 plus shipping here. Why the hell are things like 3x as much. It really grinds my gears lol. Even buying 3/8 stainless tubing is redicules here, $250 for 50' . I have decided to go with gastite gas line and just remove the plastic sheath.

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ttystikk said:

http://www.nybrewsupply.com/beer-home-brewing-equipment/wort-chillers.html

You may now kiss the ground I walk on, lol j/k

For an even cheaper alternative, just use 1/2" OD copper HVAC tubing, a 10-15' foot length coiled up small enough to fit works awesome in a control bucket. Do not put copper in the same res tub as a plant because contact will kill the roots.

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Budley Doright said:

So I'm confused (as usual lol). I run sprayers and thought until my last grow that temps were not s huge deal as the roots weren't flooded but as my water temps got above 70 root rot came with a vengeance. Now that I've lowered temps to 65 I have gotten rid of the rot so why would a flood and drain be different? My root zone actually got quite warm due to ambient temps when sprayers were not running also.

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two2brains said:

With flood and drain you have the ability to cool the root zone via air flow. If you run smart pots or plastic pots with holes and run a fan on them they will stay cool. Its the same as when you jump in a pool or ocean you get out and the wind blows on you and you freeze

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