jensen71
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I'm not understanding something...I'm setting up a 2 bucket RDWC with water falls in each site bucket intaking from a 250 GPH pump which is outtaking into my control bucket. The length of the entire system is less than 8 feet to and from each bucket returning to the water pump. Each bucket intakes equally in length from a teebar connected to a hose with ball valves on each intake hose for each bucket and outtakes equally in length to a tee bar which connects to a ball valve and Y inline filter and then to a return hose that connects to the intake on the water pump. The outtake from the water pump can't really go directly into each bucket without it going to a control bucket I want to use and drain each week with fresh nutes and bottled water. So how does it go from the water pump into the control bucket and then backout to each bucket without there being another water pump between the water going into the control bucket and then out to the site buckets? Does the water level in the control bucket have to be higher than in each site bucket? Does the control bucket need to be larger and air tight or have a higher water level than in each bucket? And how would circulating back to the control bucket on top of returning it through the return hose work if the negative pressure created by the water pump is sucking it through the return? I don't get how you could have it recirculating without the other buckets also sucking in water from the control bucket as a result of the negative pressure from the return hose. How does the DO retain it's state after being sucked through a filter in the return hose going back to create more DO on the waterfall on the return to the control bucket/reservoir. Sorry these are probably stupid questions, i'm just working with limited space and opting for simplicty, and im not a fluid dynamics guru. Would appreciate some schooling from an old schooler.
MJ aka Bluto
I'm not understanding something...I'm setting up a 2 bucket RDWC with water falls in each site bucket intaking from a 250 GPH pump which is outtaking into my control bucket. The length of the entire system is less than 8 feet to and from each bucket returning to the water pump. Each bucket intakes equally in length from a teebar connected to a hose with ball valves on each intake hose for each bucket and outtakes equally in length to a tee bar which connects to a ball valve and Y inline filter and then to a return hose that connects to the intake on the water pump. The outtake from the water pump can't really go directly into each bucket without it going to a control bucket I want to use and drain each week with fresh nutes and bottled water. So how does it go from the water pump into the control bucket and then backout to each bucket without there being another water pump between the water going into the control bucket and then out to the site buckets? Does the water level in the control bucket have to be higher than in each site bucket? Does the control bucket need to be larger and air tight or have a higher water level than in each bucket? And how would circulating back to the control bucket on top of returning it through the return hose work if the negative pressure created by the water pump is sucking it through the return? I don't get how you could have it recirculating without the other buckets also sucking in water from the control bucket as a result of the negative pressure from the return hose. How does the DO retain it's state after being sucked through a filter in the return hose going back to create more DO on the waterfall on the return to the control bucket/reservoir. Sorry these are probably stupid questions, i'm just working with limited space and opting for simplicty, and im not a fluid dynamics guru. Would appreciate some schooling from an old schooler.
MJ aka Bluto