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we are talking about a manifold that directs water into each RDWC bucket side for an waterfall effect. I didnt know that effects the way the plant grows? Or did u think we were talking about something else

the point of the manifold is to provide the waterfall effect in my RDWC sites. which is a method of increasing dissolved oxygen in the water without hot, noisy, air pumps.

Awesome. Thanks!

ah shit, forgot I had another question. I’m probably going to buy a chiller. Would I need another pump for the chiller? Or could I pump the water into the chiller, and then run the water that’s coming out of the chiller directly into the manifold for the waterfall?

awesome man. Super excited to try hydro. Thanks for the help.

is a variable dc pump better than a mag drive pump? Sorry I’m kind of a noob here, this is my first system I’m building so I’m not entirely sure what the pros/cons would be of a variable dc pump

Ight, was looking at a 350 GPH mag drive inline pump, sounds like that should work just fine? Also for design I was thinking about doing something like this (see photo) with the tubing connected to the pump running into the very center between all 4 sites, running up into a T joint, then...

Hydro noob here, building a 4 site RDWC: 4x 5 gallon buckets, with a 5 gallon res, so probably 15-20 gallons when full (going into a 4x4 tent/res outside tent). I live in a hot climate so I’m thinking instead of hot noisy air pumps, I’ll go waterfall, with an inline pump pulling water from the...

going to use hydro guard to help with temps until I can afford a chiller. Gonna be winter here soon so shouldn’t really have to worry about temps much. I guess what I meant was, considering air pumps heat up water, losing the pump and going with waterfall should help lower temps some.

Using two of those lights I’d still have to use the same hanging height if running at 100%. The 260 v2 rspec uses 2 qb288s so 4 total. The 600 also uses 4 qb228s. Yes, being able to space them further apart make a little difference in the hot spot/uniformity. But with the light overlap it would...

yeah i was looking at the HLG 600/650 with dimmers, but if you dim it and lower the light then you sacrifice uniformity and watts/sq feet. Plus, I don’t have a par meter so if just be guessing pretty much.

how much would it reduce it? keep in mind if went HLG I’d prob spring for the 650 which is about 1,099$, plus fans would prob bring it up to 1,125$. The raging kush is about 1,230$ so only 100 more and I could grow taller plants.

holy shit man! I wish that’s what my tent looked like lol. I’ve looked into a lot of diy kinda stuff to save money but unfortunately I lost most of my left arm a few years back so a lot of diy stuff seems like it would be really difficult for me :/ that’s why I’m really just trying to keep it...

the raging kush is led. And if I went HLG that’s 15” with res, 24”min hang height, and recommended 15” below top of tent. That Only leaves me with 26 inches of plant growth to work it. And I’d like to be able to grow them a little taller than that. (4 plants in a 4x4 btw) also the RK has...

thankyou!

A Awesome. I think I’ll go waterfall!!! Save me some issues with heat too, correct? (I live in a hot climate)

nope, LED all the way. Too hot where I live for hps, and this light is designed to replace 1000+ watt hps.

sorry I know you already answered the above question, what I meant was what would the cons be of using a 4 gallon instead of 5 gallon buckets?

okay cool, also would 4 gallon buckets be big enough to flower in? 4 plants in a 4x4 tent btw. I want to use square buckets for a better seal, and I can’t seem to find 5 gallon square ones.

thanks so much man!!!