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Cheers for the help guys. Juicybuds you're right this isnt going to be used by nasa its just a university project. There is however a british space exploration company who are funding the project and im basicaly doing it for them, called 'magna parva'. Obviously theyre not going to send my...

Also i should probably mention that the system is going to be pretty small, roughly the same size as the aerogarden (which i also tried to use once, what a piece of cr*p :P). Probably only going to fit 1 plant in there for the roots sake.

Ah cool cheers dude. Well the thing is i wont have time to actually build the whole system and produce a successful grow by may, so the im mainly expected just to produce a hydro-controller that that gets all the ratios correct etc and a way for the lights to automatically raise themselves as...

Hi guys, basically im in my final year of engineering at uni and my personal project is to develop a fully automated aeroponic system to support (and entertain) our beloved astronaughts on their missions. By fully automated i mean they could literally fall asleep for a month and wake up to...

ok well i bought 2 computer fans and wired them up to an old cell phone charger. One i put as an exhaust at the top left corner of the box and the other as an air intake near the bottom right of the box. i also have a mini desk fan in there aimed at the plants for circulation. You reckon this...

A couple years ago i got 80 nirvana seeds, 79 germinated, 78 made it to flowering, 39 females. i dont understand why people diss nirvana so much, they were a great band :(

i too am having this problem, that link was good dertmagert, but it didnt really help in this situation (or i didnt read it properly :p). ill try and get some pics up in a minute.

I think you misunderstood, i have a mini desk fan in there atm circulating stale air, but if i got a computer fan id build it into the side of the box to bring fresh air in, would that be kosher?

Yeah i was thinking of a computer fan, but i wouldnt know how to wire it to the mains, dont they have a unique power connection that plugs straight into the motherboard? if someone could explain how i could splice the cable that would be perfect! Yeah the box isnt huge but im only planning on...

bump? sorry to pester, but do you guys really want to be responsible for 7 dead plants?!?! :p

but yeh what i wanted to know was what will happen if i put just the HPS in there with no reflector just an oscillating fan? would it kill my plants?

i duno really i guess i just dont want the smell from the box getting out from the exhaust fan, i know i could put a carbon filter in etc etc but its still pretty expensive n im at uni so my budgets pretty low.

well the thing is at the mo ive only got 52W of cfl lighting, which is pretty lame, im after a nice yield really.

Hi guys, basically im building a box and ive got a couple questions about lighting. First off, the box is about 60x40x80(cm), made out of timber, its 12mm think, and the whole interior is covered in mylar. Now my question is, whats the deal with putting an HPS in there? would i definately need a...

yeh i used the nutes too soon i think and theyre now all dead, oh well, lesson learnt :( by stock lighting i meant the lights that came with the ag, i think its 2 26W cfl's.