AeroJunkie's High Pressure Air-Assisted Hydro-Atomized Aeroponic System (HPAAHAAS)

Without seeing your girls it's hard to say, but 850 still seems pretty high. I'm still at 300 or so, mine are a month in. How big are they, and what kind of root mass are we talkin?

Originally Posted by dickkhead

so my girls I think are going through transfer shock! i had them misting at 60 psi 2sec/630 off w/d cycle and then moved them to 100 psi 1 sec/3min wd cycle. I also used tap water in my setup cause the kid from supreme hydro said thats all he grows with and using RO will cause the plant to have mineral defficency's. i also lowered my ppm to 850 down from 1000, it seems they have slowed a bit. maybe ill post a video and you can give your opinion.

What would actually make you believe there going though some sort of shock? You said you think it, and laid out the specs of your system, but whats actually wrong with them? Lots use tap, and lots that don't give there plants what they need so they don't have any deficiencies, not that id believe a word from anyone working in a hydro store, ever. Where can you host/post a video of your grow safely? I'm at 1000ppms in my HPA setup, it all depends on the strain and what they can handle.

Originally Posted by Mike Young

Without seeing your girls it's hard to say, but 850 still seems pretty high. I'm still at 300 or so, mine are a month in. How big are they, and what kind of root mass are we talkin?

here ya go folks u tell me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x_eicSEEj8

Originally Posted by dickkhead

so my girls I think are going through transfer shock! i had them misting at 60 psi 2sec/630 off w/d cycle and then moved them to 100 psi 1 sec/3min wd cycle. I also used tap water in my setup cause the kid from supreme hydro said thats all he grows with and using RO will cause the plant to have mineral defficency's. i also lowered my ppm to 850 down from 1000, it seems they have slowed a bit. maybe ill post a video and you can give your opinion.

When you begin with RO, YOU control all the elements. Who knows how much Ca is in tap, and in what form? Even worse, many municipalities recycle their water, so you wind up with all kinds of residues from pharmaceuticals that were flushed. You simply buy a nute that has CaMg in it (DM) or buy a CaMg+ supplement.

Max veg ~ 600 flwr ~800

You really need to test the TDS of your water if you have city water you need to use a RO unit if you have a well anything over 300 TDS is crap and you should use a RO unit. If your water pressure is lower than 60 psi you should use a booster pump another thing if you warm the water to room temp you will get close to what your RO unit is rated for on the output

I did start in RO water n have been using sensi cal mag. but sense I used tap I cut it in half. And when I went to charge my acc it took 5 gall to charge it then I put another 5 in the res. my RO system only has a 2gallin storage tank so as pet flora said in tb thread I think I'm going to add a booster pump to get a Constant supply of RO water. That's the only reason I used tap cause the RO ran out

Aj
what i have found with AA is that if the mist is hanging thick in the chamber from one cycle to the next the droplet size was to small. even with all the hydraulic HPA nozzzle systems ive built i cant ever remember having visible mist from one cycle to the next. although ive had hydraulic nozzle rigs that could keep a constant mist hanging in the chamber it was never the setting that produced the nicest roots and plants. now with the AA test rig i ran for a few months it was very easy to keep mist at any density in the chamber i wanted because i had complete control over both the air and solution feed using digital gauges but again the best results i got was when i increased the droplet size so there wasnt always a constant mist hanging in the chamber. i really need to do more work on the AA test rig to draw solid conclusions but its a long term project before i settle on a final AA tree pod design. ill thow a pic of the test rig up so people can see i really do have one.

well i didnt think the 2.5-3l per 1k would become a topic i only mentioned it because i was explaining why im not currently running any aero. i needed something to do while i worked on another project so i switched to a system to just get me thru till i could build a full scale AA tree system. thing is after i started messing with the temp system and saw the results i could get i now am not in a hurry to switch because who doesnt like wieghts like that. for the guys who question the numbers remember my username Treee.......... put 5, 36inch trained vegged ladies around a 1k vert bulb and have 20yrs experience and see what happens. its not all that hard to get those numbers. but this thread isnt about other systems its about AA so im not going to get into the system. i might do a thread on it and if i do ill throw the link up.

TB
im not much of a fan of fogponoics. that being said ive never tried it just going by what ive read. ive seen oldmacs fogponics at icmag but im not impressed since he has to run a hp (without accumulator) system in conjunction it seems pointless. but hey if you have it already and want to give it a try it might work for a transition to the HP rig. i like cavadages clone rig which im sure youve seen on his old thread.

Your design looks very thought out for just a preliminary test chamber. You have 4 solenoids placed up top, how many nozzles are you using and are they hago, delevan, or bete/spraying systems nozzles? Did you position the spray facing horizontally or vertically?

I have come to the conclusion that i will need to add more nozzles in order to get the coverage needed in such a large chamber. What are the dimensions of your actual chamber space in this unit? I understand your need for a deep chamber, and it appears you have accomplished that. But for multiple plants are you planning to have individual chambers for each or would you consider a single chamber for say 2-4+ plants?