Fragile back at it. DIY RDWC with the things.

It looks like your pvc elbows in the pics are 1" with reducing bushings on them to fit the 3/4" pvc. Why'd that need to be?

Also, your pump ended up being submersible?

fragileassassin said:

I kinda made shit up as I went, it was a lot of "oh damn I forgot these" trips back to lowes, luckily theres one 5 minutes away.

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And the reducers you're talking about aren't reducers, you used reducing bushings for 2"- 1.5" right?

Only other question I have about the pics on THIS thread, are what are the vinyl tubes swooping down low on the underside pic, the lines wrapped in foam insulation, and the orange/black cord/hose in the overview pic?

What's going on with the closest to the res side, furthest elbow drain piece connecting to that tee with a piece of piping wrapped in foil tape? Is that just press fit? Lol
Sorry for the bombardment of questions, I just wanna understand this and I feel like I could learn something.

I also noticed the tee for your float valve pill is still in place, but above is gone. Did you end up just cutting it off and capping it, and using the extra water in the garbage can res to hold over the system rather than the feed tank that supplied from on top of that 50gal drum?

Nizza said:

long sweep 90's may be a very small improvement for next build.
great stuff here! The tee-wyes are great, its very smart of you to get those instead of regular tees!

are you going to insulate the buckets and lines or is that not an issue?
for warming up the water a fish tank heater could work

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Yep! I saw the Ts with the directional side and was like ooo thats perfect.
I do have a roll of that insulating reflective foil I used for my windows, maybe Ill wrap them up in that. Temps arent a major issue, but thatd probably help. Thanks for the reminder!

The Ts are 2" on the ends and the side T is 1.5" The fittings on the buckets are 1.5" so it was just a small piece of 1.5" pipe in there. The 2x1.5" elbows were too short and would have made things sit weird so I shoved 1.5" reducer bushings on to 2" elbows and used a small piece of pipe.

Pump is submersible 1400gph thatll get replaced eventually with a better one.
All the feed pvc is just setup to be equal length for each of the 4 feed runs so I have equal pressure to all 12 buckets. Going big to small just keeps the pressure up.

Insulated lines run out the back of the tent, around the back of my flower tents filter, and to the chiller.
The other line down there is a drain line. 3/4" hose off the valve that I can fill a bucket with, or I can shove the cut off garden hose into it and run it over to my floor drain. If I leave the pump on and open that bottom valve, the system pumps itself out.

Float valve is still in place. I set the level and trimmed the excess pipe at some point. Has a pvc cap on it to keep out light but it is still there and functional. It was more a solution to the fairly low water volume I would have had without the trashcan, so im not sure how much ill use it now.

Some of the places that have the foil tape on them are just siliconed together so I can pull it apart if I need to. But mostly it was just to keep things from moving while it dried when I put it all together.

i think thats everything lol.

These should make thing make more sense I think. Also got everything else set. Lights and fan lowered. They're already perking up towards the light.

If you used 3/4" why does this have a bushing in it? And where's this pipe even go to anyhow?
The angle you took this at is just so perfect that I can't tell if that pipe is fitted into the top piece that wraps around to the bucket or if it's coming to the elbow with a bushing in it! This pic just confuses the Fuck out of me. I understand what the end product ended up looking like, but some of this stuff just seems so out of place...

The feed line goes from 1.25 up the middle then splits to 2x 1" lines that go out then up and split again to the 3/4 on the sides of the buckets with 3/4x3/4x1/2 Ts to 1/2 elbows in the buckets with caps with holes drilled in them.

This is what the feed lines would look like without the bends.

I'm just gonna guess the pic I posted is before you cut that piece to length. I can't understand why there's an empty elbow at the bottom of the picture.

fragileassassin said:

This is what the feed lines would look like without the bends.
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Ya, like I said, I understand what the end product is, just not what's going on in that pic.

Airwalker16 said:

I'm just gonna guess the pic I posted is before you cut that piece to length. I can't understand why there's an empty elbow at the bottom of the picture.

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Looks like it was just mid build when I was piecing stuff together still. The lines on the buckets arent connected to the lower lines yet. The angle just makes it look weird.
And yeah looks like that was before I trimmed the float valve, after I got everything filled I saw it didnt have to sit any higher than the buckets and cut several inches off before glue because I thought it was ugly sticking up.

Airwalker16 said:

Ya, like I said, I understand what the end product is, just not what's going on in that pic.

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Yeah just a confusing picture

Things have settled out nicely. Now I can leave it alone and not open the front so i can let the humidity build up in the tent.

awesome work!
Looking foward for more updates

Got bored and decided to wrap my buckets.
When I was done with the buckets I had a piece left that wasnt enough to do much with. So my adhd took over and I wrapped things until it was gone. Here is the result.

I like shiny things.

I like! I used the same stuff to wrap all buckets and plumbing, whatever you can do to keep the chiller running less frequent is a plus in my eyes.