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Jeff H said:
The 12th step is when you get overcome with maintaining 10 buckets constantly and you say F-it and change them all over to a drip system with one common reservoir and drip lines running everywhere.
 
 
At this point, I consider myself a recovering bubble bucket addict.
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Lol I must be recovering too. My current system circulates the water between nearly all the plants so I only have to take measurements of pH etc once and add water and nutes etc to one place. Dangerous, I know, but I like to live lazily.
I mean dangerously
 
lol i started with bubble buckets but it got to be too big a pain in the ass. now i run 2  2 x4 flood tables . 1 1000w hps  and 1 600w mh  i use coco in both but the one with the 600 over it has hydroton in it and i use regular 1 gallon pots filled with coco. the unit under the 1000w has a layer of coco chunks in it coverd by coir. i constantly have to trim things back in the unit under the 1000w cuz it grows so fast  i ran outta hight adjustment on the light.. where the 600 and the 1000 overlap is crazy
 
impending_bending said:
Lol I must be recovering too. My current system circulates the water between nearly all the plants so I only have to take measurements of pH etc once and add water and nutes etc to one place. Dangerous, I know, but I like to live lazily.
I mean dangerously
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motocross308 said:
lol i started with bubble buckets but it got to be too big a pain in the ass. now i run 2  2 x4 flood tables . 1 1000w hps  and 1 600w mh  i use coco in both but the one with the 600 over it has hydroton in it and i use regular 1 gallon pots filled with coco. the unit under the 1000w has a layer of coco chunks in it coverd by coir. i constantly have to trim things back in the unit under the 1000w cuz it grows so fast  i ran outta hight adjustment on the light.. where the 600 and the 1000 overlap is crazy
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Where are the pics you two? Nice to see two more recovering addicts. Life sure is simpler.
 
Here is my current indoor operation. Perlite in the flood table and a 600w MH bulb. The pic is from early November right after I brought the o/w plants inside. I'll need to get a more recent photo. It will be transferred to the 5 gallon bucket drip system when they go outside.
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Jeff H said:
Where are the pics you two? Nice to see two more recovering addicts. Life sure is simpler.
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Yup, in CLEAR containers (blasphemy! I know). It ain't purdy, but it sure as hell works and was much more fun to put together than the kits imo. Can you trace where the water goes?
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My favorite feature though, is this:
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Sir, I challenge you to a duel of laziness
 
Naturally, we want to see a recent photo of this!

Jeff H said:
Where are the pics you two? Nice to see two more recovering addicts. Life sure is simpler.
 
Here is my current indoor operation. Perlite in the flood table and a 600w MH bulb. The pic is from early November right after I brought the o/w plants inside. I'll need to get a more recent photo. It will be transferred to the 5 gallon bucket drip system when they go outside.
20131021_203238.jpg
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McGuiver said:
I do acknowledge the higher powers, 277v & 480v...

I've had 277vac bite me when I was wiring up a commercial light fixture and someone took my lockout tag off the breaker. They turned on the breaker because the lights were out. I came down from the lift and almost put a hammer to their head. I was going to check for a brain...

277vac sucks. Almost got me. Got to respect the power.
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HA! I was unhooking shore power to a ship once, 480V 250A supply, and I forgot to turn it off first....
 
It took everything I had to let go. That set of hex wrenches went into the gulf when I finally did, not on purpose, just the force of letting go.
 
The weird part was it didnt shock me until I started trying to turn it.
 
mx5inpa you were lucky it did not kill you. 480vac is nasty. Only think worse is 12.5KV and up... I had an electrician friend vaporize 1/2 a bus bar by dropping his screw driver on it, and shorting it. It was not an insulated screw driver... The arc flash was bad. I had to go over and help him after that. He was covered and burns, and holes burned thru his clothing from molten metal.

Now I only work on hot power if properly suited up, flash gear, gloves, and insulating mat.

Salt water and dock cords don't mix. I saw a 220vac dock cord get caught in a propeller while still powered up. It was all chopped up, yet did't blow 40amp breaker. The days before GFCI breakers...
 
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