This is sort of the reason that Alien advised me to go with RDWC instead of E&F. I mentioned I may need to be away for a couple of days at a time here and there and they said "in the event of a power surge/cut flood and drain plants will die in hours whereas RDWC will survive days". While not connected to PH drift, still a maintenance related issue - And as the RDWC system is not more expensive, I assumed this was true. Of course, they do get to push a bit harder for me to take a chiller with RDWC though.
In the past, I've seen videos where a Current Culture rep was promoting the idea of going full cycle without changing the res' at all, as the plants take up so much solution that in effect you end up doing complete change-overs anyway just by topping up. This also led me to believe that RDWC would likely be lower maintenance as timing res' changes perfectly may not be AS important as in other systems.
I don't NEED low maintenance necessarily, but for a noob' it would make sense to go with something less intensive to care for.
