remote rez on E&F, how much drop for drain?

[yamaha_1fan]

I want to put up some tables and keep the reses outside of the room. I am probably looking at a 60-70 foot run for the furthest tables, from table to rez. What would be a good drop rate to insure proper drainage? 1" per 10 feet, 2 " per 10 feet? This is on the same floor, so there will be a point where my tables will have to be so high, its not practical and I will have to rework the design.

 

[Uncle FREEDOM]

Hey yamaha....

Well just to get a idea.... how high above the ground is your rez top?

As far as i can tell it seems to me that the only problem you are looking at is some water always sitting in the drain hose. The weight of the water draining from the table will push the water just fine, even on a long run like that. You might have like a "sewer trap" like effect, but it should not be anything to worry about as long as light can not get at the water.

Water weighs alot, so it should have no problem draining....

hope this helps, please let me know if i have miss understood you in any way.

best wishes

 

[loco81]

quarter inch per foot is what plumbers do! but it will find its own level so you will just have a little in hoses like uncle said which shoudnt be a prob

 

[yamaha_1fan]

I wont be using hose, I'll be using PVC for the bulk of the run, then going back to hose at each end to connect to the table and pump

1/4" per foot = about 15" in my case. That may be too high. I think the top of my res is about 24" so my table would have to be almost 40" high

 

[Uncle FREEDOM]

If your going to rent a cement saw, why don't you sink your rez's in the ground??

That will help with the hight issue.

best wishes

 

[yamaha_1fan]

yeah, I dont know about that. There will be 16 tables, each with its own rez. Yes it has to be done that way. So sinking 16 reses would equate to removing ALOT of the slab. Too much for my liking.

 

[Mr. Tony]

how high of ceilings you working with?

 

[Uncle FREEDOM]

why does there need to be a rez for each table???

heck why not split your tables up into groups of 4???

If one was to do that you could set it up so that you would be harvesting a group of 4 tables every 2 weeks (gives you a week so you could have a life and go away sometime)

Look yamaha, i don't know your situation but if i was doing what your doing i would do this...

i would group the tables into groups of 4, with a 2 week separation between groups of tables coming down. This would give me to do one of two things. If i was running small clones packed tight, i could pop them right out of my aero cloners, as 2 weeks would be perfect. If one wanted bigger plants and a steady supply of clones to keep up (with moms as backup) i would do this. I would use the cloners to clone for the first 2 weeks, then either transfer the clones to a vegging situation or just add nutes to the cloners. I would then top each one of the plants and use these cuts as my next supply of clones. (with some cuts from mothers to have more clones then i need so i can always make sure my clones i use are the strongest.) Then the topped plants veg for 1-2 weeks (depending how big you want to run them) and popped onto your flower tables right after you cleaned them from the previous harvest.

BOB's your uncle, you would now have a steady schedule of every 2 weeks with the bonus of not having to have tons of moms kicking around.

Now i would cut through the floor and sink 4 big ass blue barrels (or whatever one wanted to use for a rez.) hook up a float valve to each barrel and have another barrel above ground to top it up with ph'ed water, or 1/4 strength nutes. So now you can run your tables with 4 rezes you can have 1 with transition nutes (half veg, half flower), 2 rezes with straight full strength flower nutes, and 1 rez with ph'ed water for flushing. Heck with the addition of a bunch of shut off valves one could just keep those rezes the same and route the nutes/runoff to proper rez/table as per week of the schedule.

In my opinion, this would be a far easier way to manage things then having 16 separate rezes, but as i said i do not have a good grasp as to what you are planning to do. But imagine walking into your rez room looking at 4 rezes seeing that the ph/ppm/temp was in check (get those tri-meter readout ones that constantly display your levels) big difference.

I hope this helps, and i don't seem like a old guy rambling on... lol

best wishes