What do you think my chances are?

East Coast · Feb 6, 2014

frizzlegooch said:
No doubt thats alot of voltage for a fan! shieeet
Thanks for your reply too. Gonna try and figure it out and maybe sketch my own out.

I think we have one of the best designed electrical system in the modern world.

240v - 50htz - 400v 3 phase between or 240v to neutral. M.E.N system - multiply earth neutral system - anothers words we have a parallel path for fault current to flow to ground and blow our protection.

If you like - after I tidy my wiring up - I will post a better shot of the wiring so you can trace it...........make sure you get the right size capacitor for ballast and bulb used - and the ignitor has to be the right size for the ballast / bulb -

East Coast · Feb 6, 2014

Fitted a couple of tank fittings to the flood tray .....

Thinking about taking out the fill / drain fitting and grinding some plastic off to reduce its thickness.......

Currently the flood height is 100mm or 4 inch. Tide reaches the black line on the red tape. Will have to cut the drain down 25mm? - so there is enough space

from the rockwool cube to high tide mark...as I am looking at that mark and where the cube will sit, and there is not that much room, if any at the moment.

I want to do a dummy run - see how this idea of rockwool packed in the bottom with perlite on top works, might float yet.....any advice?

East Coast · Feb 7, 2014

After 24 hrs after soaking - the rockwool holds 1/2 cup of liquid...........is this too much ?

You think I have put too much rockwool in the bottom......I could reduce a little without the pot floating away. Having that amount of water stored in the bottom

could be a backup system also - water once a day ?

East Coast · Feb 21, 2014

My new method works good I think:

Placing only a 1/4 the amount of rockwool in than above. I was packing it in too tightly / much. So the pot on the right has rockwool in the bottom, the one on the left is full of perlite.

I then place the full pot of perlite into the rockwool pot, this stops the perlite from escaping while the reservoir in emptying stage, and during the fulling, the extra weight from wet rockwool and two pots - stop the pots from floating away.

So now my growing pot of perlite is just perlite, rather than a mix of rockwool and perlite.

6 pots sitting in their flood tray

Tray flooded and pots sitting happily - Takes 7 minutes to flood and drain.

SnapsProvolone · Feb 21, 2014

East Coast said:
Thanks - I can read wiring diagrams a little - and if you can read this mess View attachment 2985752 you can to. I chuck this together late last night, its the running gear for the 400w. Incoming phase and one side of cap into the ballast, out of the ballast into the ignitor, from the ignitor to the lamp - put all neutrals and the remaining cap wire into the neutral on ignitor - turn on and watch the glow.

View attachment 2985753 You can see the 150w at the back and the 400w front.

Would be wise to mount this ballast on something non flammable. As a licensed sparky you know why.

Kygrow420 · Feb 21, 2014

I just use an esky with biodegradable peat seedling cups along with 2-4 30w energy saving spiral globes in desk laps with clamp bottoms. Only for the seedlings

East Coast · Feb 21, 2014

SnapsProvolone said:
Would be wise to mount this ballast on something non flammable. As a licensed sparky you know why.

You can see the 5mm air gap between the ballast and ply..........I am more worried about the mattress beside, and the roofing paper above.......

Everything you see is temporary until I lock the final system in place - then tidy up. Generally when I am not around, the system is shut off. R.C.D protected with 5amp close circuit protection - that should pick up the smallest electrical problems. Thinking of running a contactor (20amp) for the whole system, controlled by an overcurrent device in future.

Waiting for the hottest week of summer in NZ to fuck off before I start this system full time - which give me the luxury of testing and refining -about another month I say before 24/7.

32 degrees 'c' outside - lovely 25 - 27 'c' swing in the flowering tent, but this is with lights on during the night, off during the day time.

Clone temp sits on 30 'c' at the base where clones sit - air temp 26 'c' in room.

Mother tent at the moment will not sit below 25 'c' during the day - but the lights have to be on until lunch time to have 18/6 - and off during the hottest part of the day.

ilyaas123 · Feb 21, 2014

Kygrow420 said:
I just use an esky with biodegradable peat seedling cups along with 2-4 30w energy saving spiral globes in desk laps with clamp bottoms. Only for the seedlings

Those peat cups are awful, the roots are supposed to grow through them once you transplant although they do not so you have to remove the pear pot and transplant the seedling/plant separately.

SnapsProvolone · Feb 22, 2014

East Coast said:
You can see the 5mm air gap between the ballast and ply..........I am more worried about the mattress beside, and the roofing paper above.......

Everything you see is temporary until I lock the final system in place - then tidy up. Generally when I am not around, the system is shut off. R.C.D protected with 5amp close circuit protection - that should pick up the smallest electrical problems. Thinking of running a contactor (20amp) for the whole system, controlled by an overcurrent device in future.

Waiting for the hottest week of summer in NZ to fuck off before I start this system full time - which give me the luxury of testing and refining -about another month I say before 24/7.

32 degrees 'c' outside - lovely 25 - 27 'c' swing in the flowering tent, but this is with lights on during the night, off during the day time.

Clone temp sits on 30 'c' at the base where clones sit - air temp 26 'c' in room.

Mother tent at the moment will not sit below 25 'c' during the day - but the lights have to be on until lunch time to have 18/6 - and off during the hottest part of the day.

Arcing potential of connections requires a non combustible housing. As an electrician you know this. Be safe, u seem like a cool dude.

East Coast · Feb 22, 2014

SnapsProvolone said:
Arcing potential of connections requires a non combustible housing. As an electrician you know this. Be safe, u seem like a cool dude.

Maybe they should make where you make electrical connections not from plastic then? Hell - all mcb's, rcd's and rcbo's are plastic housed - I am doomed.

East Coast · Feb 23, 2014

Found another use for the flood trays...........

Sand box for the Rega TT - Avatar is pic of the lower device in the background - Perreaux 250i amp, simply put, it is the 1 of the best marijuana smoke on steroids for an amp !

Google the theory of a sand box if ya into hi-fi. I find a good beer (Stella Artois) with some mind numbing / body stone smoke, chuck on some black vinyl, just puts myself in that zone.

Speakers are Image Revelation2 - need some heavy duty equipment - otherwise the 250i will shred them into melting, smoking pile of mess.

Few of the Pink Floyd and associated members albums

Sorry to divert.

Shaded420 · Feb 24, 2014

Ahhhh EC, you crack me up dude. :weed:

WHERE'S THE ZEPPELIN?!?!?!?!

HumbleNMotivated · Mar 19, 2014

Just stopping in haven't been in in a few pages lol. Just got sub'd up so that won't happen anymore. Everything looking good great.

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