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who wants to see a 420 light medical grow?

dmt

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Very impressive! Looking forward to seeing the progress...
Would you happen to have a link to an article or guide describing how to run a sealed room? I'd like to try a run at it and could use some more info. Seems you canadians are quite proficient at running them...
Thanks in advance!

why not ask me what you need to know, lol, d
 

Tactician

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Will you be using flips between the bloom rooms or a loadcenter controller for each room. Did the inspector permit the lampshades hung with string instead of aircraft cable? Below is a pic from a 180 light bloom room, four rooms with 45 lights hung verticle. Five lights per 16 foot 2x4 hung with 3/16" aircraft cable to raise and lower five lights at a time. Awesome setup DMT, wish I was your sparky...lol


Best Regards

Tac
 

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dmt

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Will you be using flips between the bloom rooms or a loadcenter controller for each room. Did the inspector permit the lampshades hung with string instead of aircraft cable? Below is a pic from a 180 light bloom room, four rooms with 45 lights hung verticle. Five lights per 16 foot 2x4 hung with 3/16" aircraft cable to raise and lower five lights at a time. Awesome setup DMT, wish I was your sparky...lol


Best Regards

Tac

each room has its own panel, but we run 1/2 the bloom rooms day and 1/2 at at night, all timed, no flip.

the inspector passed the rope becuase the fixture is already secured to the structure. the nylon just helps with the up down motion.

so thats a 2 or 3 step stadium in yer pic?

the kcc has a new client who wants me to oversee his grow in surrey, hes done a ton of electrical but its super hokey lol, d
 

Tactician

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They are 3 step stadiums, the top step is double wide. Only downside to this setup is all the plants were in 2-gallon buckets. The stadiums were 16 feet long and sloped 2 degrees. The steps had sidewalls and 6-mil plastic lined each trough. Twelve 2-gallon pots per trough and each stadium has 72 plants times 9 stadiums. The spacing allowed the plants to average about 2 ozs per plant. I think the stadiums have been removed now and they are growing bigger plants now, 1 plant per 1 bulb.
 

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the kcc has a new client who wants me to oversee his grow in surrey, hes done a ton of electrical but its super hokey lol, d[/quote]


If you need the super hokey electrical changed to be more professional and up to code, send me a PM. I have more pics of the electrical, power, and panels built for the 180 light bloom and 36 lights veg warehouse.
 

highonmt

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D,

Good work! A very simple and scalable hydro system gotta love it. Cant wait to see 50 plants in it. What is your flood schedule going to be?
Cheers,
HM
 

dmt

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there will be 5 timers and 1 res. each progressive stage will most likely be flooded more then the previous, due to plant/root size, d
 

highonmt

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there will be 5 timers and 1 res. each progressive stage will most likely be flooded more then the previous, due to plant/root size, d

How many plants in each phase, or will you harvest 50 plants at a time? Also are you running an inner pot to allow the plants to be moved between rooms or do you just fill the fixed buckets with media and transplant as clones, rockwool blockes etc? Oh and what media are you useing, hydroton? Thanks for the great thread I'm really enjoying it.
HM
 

dmt

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thanks for the kind werds.

most of this info is in the first couple posts i made. the first 2 stages will be buckets filled with hydroton on constant feed drip.

the next 3 stages are flood buckets that the first 2 stages go into. so we are looking at 5- 8 weeks of veg from rooted clone, d
 

highonmt

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thanks for the kind werds.

most of this info is in the first couple posts i made. the first 2 stages will be buckets filled with hydroton on constant feed drip.

the next 3 stages are flood buckets that the first 2 stages go into. so we are looking at 5- 8 weeks of veg from rooted clone, d

Got it thanks again
 

Tactician

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A five pump controller, the PLC controls several on/off cycles for the pumps. Flood sensors can be added to shut off all the pumps.
 

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dmt

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^^^^i like you lol^^^^^

we can only have 1 pump on for each flood cycle, or we would run out of water. there will be 150 5 gal pails to fill, plus 100 continuous drip. dont wanna cut ourselves short, d
 

Tactician

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The PLC was programmed to wait 15 minutes for the rez to refill. Then the next pump would turn on with it's programmed cycles. At no time is more than one pump on.
 

Tactician

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Not available commerically, but I could build as many as you want. Only depends on number of pumps and if you want to incorporate solenoid valves, flood sensors, rez temp sensors, etc. If you wanted to simultaneously run several pumps, a 30A/240 plug can be added. I would also add a GFCI receptacle for each pump.
 

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Not available commerically, but I could build as many as you want. Only depends on number of pumps and if you want to incorporate solenoid valves, flood sensors, rez temp sensors, etc. If you wanted to simultaneously run several pumps, a 30A/240 plug can be added. I would also add a GFCI receptacle for each pump.

I use GFCI receptacle's on my pumps in my mini 12 site 75gallon system. It is a life saver if anything goes wrong.

The GFCI plug on the blow drier saved my neighbors life, it fell into the tub while he was taking a bath when he was a kid, stopped his heart but thankfully it did not FRY his ass completely dead...

His parents thankfully knew C.P.R. and where able to jump start him again. Lucky chap...
 

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