chillin in PPK land, same pup as my avatar in the same spot of the same floor lol
Dang elbows and 1/2 tubing are giving me hell.
Trying to build my halos n they are kicking my ass.
You guys using a heat gun?
Dang elbows and 1/2 tubing are giving me hell.
Trying to build my halos n they are kicking my ass.
You guys using a heat gun?
Sweet, I'll bust out the heat gun tonight.heat gun with the larger hose helps alot. thou its funny how a barb fitting from one mfg to the next will very despite them claiming the same outside diameter.
i use a soldering pen to pop the holes, with a fan sucking air out, preferably out the window. d9 uses a hole punch thing u can get a t some hardware stores. looks like a pair of pliers with a " boot spur" on the end that spins for different hole sizes. i have never used one but been meaning to
with the drip rings to the " tee" i always set push one side of the tube in "permanent" ,an the other side half on. that way when it comes time to take the rings off i dont have to use a heat gun or something to pry the hose off. the "half on " side comes off with a little persuasion.
Sweet, I'll bust out the heat gun tonight.
For some reason I had it my head to run a bunch of t's for the halo. Poking some holes will be way cheaper
Thank you
I tried that, it was shit. Makes for an ugly shape halo. Now I have many spare tees...
I'm a little confused about what you are having problems with on the halos, 1/2" hydro flo tubing 1/2" T and a $10 pump for each plant is pretty much rock solid. The tubing and T's go on and off easy enough.
I have a PVC ring going on the perimeter of the inside of the tent in a few. But my latest is a control bucket off the side of the grow and 4-$10 pumps in it. Going out to each plant. Cheaper and easier. From now I will be doing it this way..... I'll read through this and other ppk threads, but it only has to service 4 plants in a 4x4 tent...
Mine are 185gph just like Delta9's. Just mine are all in the control bucket with 4 holes out the cover.I'll look in to that, price pumps and shit. What gph pumps do you use? I'm in NZ so might not be the most economical solution. Don't think I have enough water in my system for all pumps to draw water simultaneously either so i suppose I'd have to factor in extra timers too...
My pump is 3000lph so 900? gph. Should be enough for the 4 plants off a single manifold but I'm concerned if I go to 1/2" Rings water level will drop too much, unless I change up a lot of my system.
793 gph. I can't imagine a scenario in which that isn't enough for 4 plants.
So are you essentially using the 1/4" rings/tubing (whatever) to restrict flow? Is that what you mean when you say "I'm concerned if I go to 1/2" Rings water level will drop too much"?
A smaller pump would be $50 tops. Would that be an overall cheaper/easier solution than a rebuild?
I understand lack of headroom but if you raise the ppks and the controll rez lets say 1", that would give you an inch more water in the pump rez which would be an inch lower than the other two.. a quart here, a quart there.. just a suggestion. 2" = twice as much.I actually have a smaller pump floating around but no idea of flow rate
The 1/4" lines and rings are because I used to use this smaller pump, which I'm sure wouldn't keep up with 1/2" line. But Yeah, I don't have a whole lot of solution in my system as my buckets are nesting. Water doesn't cover pump by much so can't afford for water level to drop by much