Beer Belly
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I just started pumping my dehumidifier water into my rez. via condensate pump. Any concerns with bacteria or the like coming off of this water source?
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ttystikk
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Not unless you attempt to hold it in some sort of separate tank for awhile. Just let it drizzle right back into the res. Works tits, just like the man said.
Alienwidow
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ok, i laugh at all my friends who run dehu water into their rez. i don't, never have. is it just RO water or what? i have no idea if its better or worse than the local 80 ppm stream that runs under my roads. it just scares me to run water that tastes bad.
Alienwidow
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i was looking at the nice flower room and wondering if those green lights i see are the leds or something else thats green. party lights? also, how many watts are in that space? sorry, probably a redundant question but i forgot.
jijiandfarmgang
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Make sure you clean out your dehumidifier regularly. This photo is one that wasn't cleaned for over a year.
The collection pan was covered in mold. On cheap box store units they are not the easiest to clean.
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ttystikk
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Google 'distilled water' for a better explanation of its purity if you need to, but your EC meter will confirm that there is nothing in it... but water.
Because it's so soft, it can easily develop a colony of algae or other stuff if it's allowed to sit. Therefore, it's best to just let it drain back into your res right away instead of holding it in a tank or bucket.
The only reason not to do this is if you want to measure how much water your plants are taking up. My thought on this is 'who cares, as long as EC and pH aren't adversely affected?'
This trick definitely reduces the need for top ups, without a doubt.
legallyflying
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We will switch then all out to the green ones to help us work in there with the lights off.
And yeah dehu water is perfectly fine. It's actually probably some of the purest water you cab get..it's just condensate after all.
I Googled the shit (yes, Google is entirely shitless now) out of copper from the condensate tubing leaching into the water but apparantly it is a very very very tiny amount and not always. Good enough for me, those AC units pump out A LOT of condensate.
Crossing my fingers, final electrical inspection tomorrow
ttystikk
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I've been running copper heat exchange coils in my RDWC control buckets for years. They work great, were easy to make and if any metal leaches into the water, copper IS a micronutrient, right?
Best of luck with your inspection!
legallyflying
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Yeah I suppose it is. I think I put it in the no no category from all the aquarium folks building chillers and avoiding it like the plague. It will kill corals quicker than shit.
Off to work. God I will be glad when all in have to do is grow. This build out has been a tremendous amount of work.
Off to work. God I will be glad when all in have to do is grow. This build out has been a tremendous amount of work.
It's copper cloride that would be bad, actual Cu (copper) metal won't hurt a plant. Really any type of metal clorides would kill your plants and harm or kill you as well. No need to worry too much about what we do, it's the use of stronger chemicals like HCL, Nitric and Sulfuric that can easily make the clorides. Copper sulfate would be bad as well. And then there are oxides but no need to go into that.
ttystikk
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Damn right it will kill corals- they need SALT water, and condensate from a dehuey is as fresh as it gets. Definitely not a problem for us.
I totally hear you in the working to get set up to work... being work. Think of it as effort invested for great returns later.
ttystikk
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Since we don't add chlorine, there's no way to make chloride ions from any metal in the water.
That might be a pool water problem, but since chlorine kills biological material, it's not on the list of additives in gardening, lol
legallyflying
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