Testing the Aerolife True HPA AA (Air Atomized) System -First run

Originally Posted by PetFlora

First TB, yes I am keeping an eye your AA rig for sure. Tell us again why you went with their tiny chamber. lol

Well, I thought it only fair to try the whole system as sold firstly, not to mention it's quite insulated from heat with 3 plys of foam inside the core, and since heat's been my personal issue it made sense to me.

Originally Posted by PetFlora

Thought you might like to see my roots (sans accum, solenoids, CVs... Just a touch of dialing in needed. Currently ~ 1 sec (Sentinel not 100% accurate at 1 sec) /1:45 (lights on- 14 hrs) 3:45 (lights off)

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The roots look like they got too warm or maybe too dry at some point, if you can keep the chamber around 65F-70F you`ll do better.
A few tweaks could help but even with the best will in the world you`ll struggle to get roots that look like this.
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Originally Posted by Atomizer

The roots look like they got too warm or maybe too dry at some point, if you can keep the chamber around 65F-70F you`ll do better.
A few tweaks could help but even with the best will in the world you`ll struggle to get roots that look like this.
target root hairs.jpg

Beautiful specimen Atomizer

So, I have worked out most of what I felt I needed to move forward with the Aerolife. Got the temps sorted out and now I'm just going to drill out my netpot locations, add in the rootscreen I already prepared, and work out how I want the reservoir logistics to be. I am fairly certain I will have some cuttings in there before the weekend's end, so stay tuned guys...

Yeah. Yeah. I have had and do get them, but we had a brief winter and the weather is not conducive. I need to ac the room, but that is not in today's budget, so I suffer with less than ideal roots. Here's today's pics. All HPA plants are ~ 11-12".

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Originally Posted by PetFlora

Yeah. Yeah. I have had and do get them, but we had a brief winter and the weather is not conducive. I need to ac the room, but that is not in today's budget, so I suffer with less than ideal roots. Here's today's pics. All HPA plants are ~ 11-12".

My 21st Century F & D is rockin big time. The lant in the foreground has literally quadrupled in < 10 days. It looks bigger but is actually in a small AP + a 6" stand to get closer to the light. The one in the back is ina 1G AP, sitting on the bottom of the tray. I think the plants love the extra humidity created due to high walls

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They look healthy, getting the light closer will keep the stretch down. Is that a cloudtops nozzle I see in the pic there? I thought the whole articulating business was so important to you, or do you like the mist those put out better?

In the future, post this sort of stuff in the Hp-aero thread as I am really trying to keep this one dedicated to the aerolife testing. Thanks guys

glad I found this follow up thread Im SUBD up and going to be looking into one of these myself have you talk to him about a bigger chamber size? and I did stumble across a thread where fatman was talking about using an oiless compresser why not use that? did you get that pic i emailed you of that huge cart one wheels that was in my grocery store but it looked like the perfect chamber gna do some research for it.... SUBING

Originally Posted by dickkhead

glad I found this follow up thread Im SUBD up and going to be looking into one of these myself have you talk to him about a bigger chamber size? and I did stumble across a thread where fatman was talking about using an oiless compresser why not use that? did you get that pic i emailed you of that huge cart one wheels that was in my grocery store but it looked like the perfect chamber gna do some research for it.... SUBING

Nice to come along for the ride ... The idea is to use a silent dental compressor like a Bambi or Jun-Air. I was fortunate enough for now that my craftsman is silenced enough sitting in my foamed up hydraulic chamber (what a waste to use it only for this right now-lol)... Anyway since I really want to explore this system and AA was always on my to do list- I'm giving it a go. One thing is that the compressor on an old regfrigerator is obviously silent and made to last for years. You can take it out and mod it to run on plain air into a reciever tank. There are plenty of you tube vids on how to DIY. Otherwise the silent/oiless compressors are pretty expensive anywhere from 300 to over 1k... (Not to mention heavy shipping charges). Luckily the AA nozzles don't need very high pressure (usually around 30-40 psi), but it's still nice to have higher pressures stored so the compressor comes on less, although with a silent one it's not a big deal. If you can tolerate the sound of a refrigerator, that's about all the noise it'll make.

Regarding larger chamber size, you could use a large rubbermaid trashcan if your indoors. The AA nozzles allow for alot more coverage and less mist density so you can use a larger range of chamber sizes and just adjust the pressures or siphon height and feed timings. One AA nozzle is plenty to fog a chamber that might need up to 8 hydraulic nozzles as Atomizer mentioned.

Oiless compressors sound good but they wont last as long as an oil lubricated because the teflon coating eventually wears out