help! please!!

dbkick

dbkick

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everything there can be grabbed at home depot, you need a 10/32 tap , the misters are Digs brand. you could even buy the pump at home depot but they're proud of their pumps.
 
dbkick

dbkick

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Ye as

Yeah because if not you're gonna create some unwanted heat running 24/7.
I use titan cycle timers that have a variable on off rate.
 
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indyboarder57

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Hey guys and gals,

Not try and high jack the thread, but I wanted to ask dbkick a question. Db, have you ever just used a 5 gal, home depot water cooler? You know those one's you can use for a job site kind of thing? I want to try running two dwc buckets, but I have hot temps as well and don't want to get a chiller. But I am stuck between buying two 5 gal home depot water cooler/buckets vs. 1 igloo cooler and do sometime of an rdwc. The 5 gal's seem more appealing because if I am doing a mult-strain grow, I can handle ppm's and pH easier. Thanks!
 
Malevolence

Malevolence

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If you do individual 5 gallon buckets, wrap them up with 3 layers of reflectix from home depot / lowes and use 1L ice bottles once a day. That should drop your temps a good 12 - 16* F. I have used 3 different types of coolers, the reflectix insulates just as well, and even better than my small coleman cooler cloner. I have never used a chiller, how many amps more or less do they run to cool 40 - 50 gallons?
 
dbkick

dbkick

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indyboarder57 said:
Hey guys and gals,

Not try and high jack the thread, but I wanted to ask dbkick a question. Db, have you ever just used a 5 gal, home depot water cooler? You know those one's you can use for a job site kind of thing? I want to try running two dwc buckets, but I have hot temps as well and don't want to get a chiller. But I am stuck between buying two 5 gal home depot water cooler/buckets vs. 1 igloo cooler and do sometime of an rdwc. The 5 gal's seem more appealing because if I am doing a mult-strain grow, I can handle ppm's and pH easier. Thanks!
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Hey I haven't gotten a chance to try the team water jugs out but I've been intending to for awhile now.
 
Commander Strax

Commander Strax

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LivingCanvas said:
Best solution I've found: (And it's best in RDWC/UnderCurrent - Single buckets is pretty impossible to do EFFICIENTLY)
Get a Stainless Steel WORT CHILLER, and a 1/10 - 1/4 HP chiller and run cool water through the metal WORT CHILLER coil and set that coil in your res. The steel cooled by the water will then cool your res/nutes.

Look on craigslist and I bet you can find an aquarium chiller at a decent price.
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Why the wort coil ?

I just run the res water thru the chiller and it waterfalls back into the res and adds oxygen
 
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