Daehtop king
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Alright i don't know if this is new but i haven't found one on here or anywhere else. Forgive me if this is old news. So im staring a DWC system and i made some insulators for my 5 gallon buckets. it might work for other systems to, but im not sure.. I wasn't going to do an experiment but once i saw the difference i thought someone might find this a cheap fix to overheating rez tanks.
I bought some cooler liner from the hardware. Its like bubble wrap but reflective. The price wasn't that bad, 13 bucks for the roll i got. It did all 5 buckets perfect. they had bigger rolls and im sure you can get it at the depot. I warped the buckets and put some Velcro straps to hold them.
so for the experiment i put one bucket in the grow room with the liner and one without. both buckets had 65 degree water in them and 70 degrees room temp from the start. theirs a 1000 watt MH about 3 foot from the tops of the buckets. I turned off the vent fans and let the temp rise.
After about an hour the temp got up to 90 both buckets only raised about one degree. so i left it alone for about 3 hours. when i came back the liner bucket was at 66.9 and the one with out was 69.4 room temp was 95 degrees.
so i let it sit another 3 hours. i had the vent fan turn on every hour so it dident get to hot. this time the bucket with the liner was only 67.8 and the one without was 73.9
so i decided to leave it a little longer. So i came back 7 hours later and the room was 101 degrees and the bucket with the liner was 68 degrees and the one without was 80.0
i stopped the experiment there because it was working so well. so for about 13 bucks if you got hot buckets you can cool them down. ill do a longer experiment when i get plants going in there.
what do you guys think about my set up?
I bought some cooler liner from the hardware. Its like bubble wrap but reflective. The price wasn't that bad, 13 bucks for the roll i got. It did all 5 buckets perfect. they had bigger rolls and im sure you can get it at the depot. I warped the buckets and put some Velcro straps to hold them.
so for the experiment i put one bucket in the grow room with the liner and one without. both buckets had 65 degree water in them and 70 degrees room temp from the start. theirs a 1000 watt MH about 3 foot from the tops of the buckets. I turned off the vent fans and let the temp rise.
After about an hour the temp got up to 90 both buckets only raised about one degree. so i left it alone for about 3 hours. when i came back the liner bucket was at 66.9 and the one with out was 69.4 room temp was 95 degrees.
so i let it sit another 3 hours. i had the vent fan turn on every hour so it dident get to hot. this time the bucket with the liner was only 67.8 and the one without was 73.9
so i decided to leave it a little longer. So i came back 7 hours later and the room was 101 degrees and the bucket with the liner was 68 degrees and the one without was 80.0
i stopped the experiment there because it was working so well. so for about 13 bucks if you got hot buckets you can cool them down. ill do a longer experiment when i get plants going in there.
what do you guys think about my set up?
