DIY cloner help

weedenhanced

weedenhanced

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Hey guys Iam making a DIY cloner so far have bucket pump holes drill all perfect I've made up a pipe in a square and then I brought some sprays from bunnings hardware micro sprayer
Now when I hook up pump Iam not getting enough pressure to run them is there a better mini sprayer
My pumps only a small size 220 litres a hour pond pump
 
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deadgro

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weedenhanced said:
Hey guys Iam making a DIY cloner so far have bucket pump holes drill all perfect I've made up a pipe in a square and then I brought some sprays from bunnings hardware micro sprayer
Now when I hook up pump Iam not getting enough pressure to run them is there a better mini sprayer
My pumps only a small size 220 litres a hour pond pump
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If my math is correct, that's about 60ml/second, which seems low to me. But not terribly low.

Check these out
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00C33WJTW/
 
nomofatum

nomofatum

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The flow rate doesn't matter for shit, it's about the PSI they are capible of creating. They never list PSI, but instead list lift height or head height. 1 PSI = 2.31ft of lift or water column or head height. If you are running a high flow super low lift pump your results will suck, you need a pump that can lift to decent heights and deliver at least ok flow. I highly recommend a zc-t40 pump with a 12v 1000ma to 1600ma ac/dc adapter (use what you have laying around.) It can pump to higher pressures and delivers quite good flow and I only broke one so far after leaving it outside a few days too long in the fall (froze, ice broke seal), had one running outside on solar 24/7 all summer last year.

I'm guessing if you look at that pump you have you will see it can only create 0.5 to 2.0 PSI. The zc-t40 will do something like 7 PSI.

I use one in my cloner and one in my diy water cooling setup now.
 
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deadgro

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nomofatum said:
The flow rate doesn't matter for shit, it's about the PSI they are capible of creating. They never list PSI, but instead list lift height or head height. 1 PSI = 2.31ft of lift or water column or head height. If you are running a high flow super low lift pump your results will suck, you need a pump that can lift to decent heights and deliver at least ok flow. I highly recommend a zc-t40 pump with a 12v 1000ma to 1600ma ac/dc adapter (use what you have laying around.) It can pump to higher pressures and delivers quite good flow and I only broke one so far after leaving it outside a few days too long in the fall (froze, ice broke seal), had one running outside on solar 24/7 all summer last year.

I'm guessing if you look at that pump you have you will see it can only create 0.5 to 2.0 PSI. The zc-t40 will do something like 7 PSI.

I use one in my cloner and one in my diy water cooling setup now.
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Psi is dependent upon the diameter of the outlet, any tubing and the spray heads. Even if the pump advertised a psi at its outlet, it wouldn't necessarily be accurate.
 
nomofatum

nomofatum

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deadgro said:
Psi is dependent upon the diameter of the outlet, any tubing and the spray heads. Even if the pump advertised a psi at its outlet, it wouldn't necessarily be accurate.
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Yes, but only up to max psi pump can create. Once you exceed what the pump can push the backpressure will stall the pump out and it can only maintain that PSI, flow will drop to whatever that PSI can push though the system. A 5 ft lift pump can only produce a little more than 2 PSI, no matter how small the line or sprayer is reduced to.
 
weedenhanced

weedenhanced

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It's all good I came up with a diff methed I just got a pin and made like 200 tiny holes in the squar it's spraying water every where very tiny jets of water in all direction I put a double air pump with big stone in bottom I'll lets yas know how it goes
 
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