Good deals on DWC setups?

[Frawsti]

bump to double check that list >.>

 

[neosapien]

Okay, i've spent the day on research. I'll be stopping by the hydroponics store next week when i get paid. Here's the list of stuff i intend on getting, I already have a catalog from the store, i just needa look up all the prices.

6 x Five gallon buckets
6 x Nettings
6 x Airstones
6 x Rockwool
3 x Bag of rocks
1 x Air pump with 6 feeds
1 x Nute tester
1 x pH tester
1 x Tent
1 x 600w HPS
1 x 600w MH
1 x Digital ballast
1 x Air cooled reflector
1 x Foxfarms nute trio
2 x inline fan?


As for the inline fans, how many will i need? The tent im looking at has one intake and one outtake (top and bottom corners) .. but i need a air cooled hps hood, so does the fan hook directly into the hood? I don't understand where to exhaust that heat if ive only got one exhaust in the top corner for the rest of the tent. Also when looking at fans what kind of CMF should i aim for? I do have a budget limit here, so the more i save the better.

Please do note if theres anything not on that list that i'd need, I have really bad ADD and im stoned, it's hard to remember everything.

A PPM/EC meter comes in handy. It is doubtful that 1 air pump divided by 6 air stones will provide enough air to all 6 buckets. You're going to want atleast 2. You also didn't have any air tubing listed. Can't speak on tents as I've never used them. It might be worthwhile to consider running a beneficial microbe environment or a sterile environment.

 

[Frawsti]

A PPM/EC meter comes in handy. It is doubtful that 1 air pump divided by 6 air stones will provide enough air to all 6 buckets. You're going to want atleast 2. You also didn't have any air tubing listed. Can't speak on tents as I've never used them. It might be worthwhile to consider running a beneficial microbe environment or a sterile environment.

I was talking about something of the such as this:
http://www.marineandreef.com/SL_65_Super_Luft_Aquarium_Air_Pump_Coralife_p/res01657.htm

that supports up to six buckets, my hydroponics catalog has ones with 8 hookups. And the PPM/EC meter is listed already

As for tubing i was dumb and assumed the pumps would include that xD

 

[tip top toker]

List looks good to me

as to the airpump, it rather depends on where you grow but i found the large multi-outlet jobs to make a HORRENDOUS racket. I had to put mine in the attic and even then it was audible. as to how many pumps/stones/bubbles are required, while the argument is that more bubbles is better, and i won't go against it, i use a single 150lph airpump in a 40L tote using a shitty old caked up airstone that hardly bubbles nymore, having grown the same clone for 3 years, i did not notice any differen whatsoever between the old airstone and when i bought fresh new ones of the same brand.

 

[Frawsti]

List looks good to me

as to the airpump, it rather depends on where you grow but i found the large multi-outlet jobs to make a HORRENDOUS racket. I had to put mine in the attic and even then it was audible. as to how many pumps/stones/bubbles are required, while the argument is that more bubbles is better, and i won't go against it, i use a single 150lph airpump in a 40L tote using a shitty old caked up airstone that hardly bubbles nymore, having grown the same clone for 3 years, i did not notice any differen whatsoever between the old airstone and when i bought fresh new ones of the same brand.

Lol thanks for telling me that, thats a really good thing to know. =rep