Should I wrap my RDWC buckets in Reflectix?
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Billy the Mountain
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It's doubtful it will have a significant effect.
It will just slow down the time taken for initially cool water to reach the ambient room temp.
I did dwc for years; the constant battle with water temps is what finally prompted my switch to coco coir.
Best of luck!
Hugo Phurst
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Is that a cold basement floor? That should be cool enough.
Good luck
Good luck
I have considered what you said because:
The majority of the water of the system will constantly be in the tent, where only a minority sits outside the tent..
Buuut.. air is a really good insulator and there's some bubble on the reflectix and it would reflect off the all black pipes and buckets so the light reflection would be nice.
I'm on my first grow and it was almost dying in the beginning cause of heat in the DWC only buckets, but I really like the idea of growing only in water. Seems futuristic (lol) Maybe I will switch to a different system, I like to idea of trying different systems seeing which I prefer most. Progress of my plants coming along in flower right now, I knew theres no way I am doing a DWC only system twice, once was enough.. watering everyday. Now I will see how RDWC is, might draw same conclusion as you in the end lol.
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Yea it is, actually I was having some issues with temp because I am only doing DWC right now, but I put some PC fans on my air intake for my aerators and it really brought the temp of the water down because the air moving passed the intake is much cooler now.
Basically it is on the basement floor but the floor was not enough previously in a DWC only system. In a RDWC I think you'd be right.
But since people use actual chillers I was wondering if I could get an improvement in cooler temps using the reflectix. Idk.
nxsov180db
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It won’t do anything
MickFoster
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I used to put frozen 2 liter bottles in the reservoir to keep the temps down.
amneziaHaze
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Keep the air pump outside.and maybe add 2 res one outside the tent
amneziaHaze
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How long did you veg this?
Fallindown
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Don't know if You should or not but I can recommend going to Amazon and buying a couple of mylar emergency blankets. I think I paid $8 for a pack of 4 of them and covered my entire closet. So much cheaper than a roll you will only use 10% of 1 time. Just a thought I hope it helps.
Drop That Sound
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Reflectix provides no real r-value unless you were able to create a 1 inch air gap between it and the containers\plumbing. In other words, you would need some kind of spacers wrapped around everything first, and even then it won't help much compared to real insulation.. Also, it scratches easily, and doesn't block all the light. Hold a piece up to any light or the sun, and you'll see how translucent it really is. Plus all the pin holes everywhere just from handling it. It does help to block some of the radiant heat, but that's about it.. There are way better options.