My Aeroponic set up, works really good not great. Pump Advice?

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I have a 10 bucket system, it works good, works amazing for the first 4 plants in the system closest to the pump, then the plants get smaller and much smaller at the back. The problem is the amount of spray they get, the sprayers at the front get a strong stream and the ones at the back get a weak stream. So I dont know if its the pump or the sprayers or both, any suggestions on pumps or sprayers?
 

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LPA is not very scalable and doesn't work well with bigger systems and higher plant count. You will always struggle with keeping the pressure even. What you can do is getting more pumps and scale down to four plants per pump or something like that.

You need a HPA or AA Aero system to be able to scale up properly.
 
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Wastei said:
LPA is not very scalable and doesn't work well with bigger systems and higher plant count. You will always struggle with keeping the pressure even. What you can do is getting more pumps and scale down to four plants per pump or something like that.

You need a HPA or AA Aero system t
o be able to scale up properly.
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It wouldn't take much more water for the back ones to be up to par with the front ones. You don't think a pump with a PSI of 120 would do it? problem is dont have the room for more resevoirs and two pumps in one res would cause heat problems.
 
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You need to redesign the system, it's not very optimized with how the pipes are drawn IMO. I would much rather do DTW (drain to waste) in Aero if you're going for a High Pressure system. One 120psi boost pump won't do it. I don't know the specs on the nozzles you use but you should aim to keep them as close to specs as possible and calculate spray time and volume accordingly.

I say this and I've built a recirculating Aero system that is in storage currently but it produced very well. You need a lot of parts, patience and knowledge to get it right! You can check out my journal to see specs of my system. Up to eight sites with a Aquatec 8852 pump and a small accumulator tank.

You also need filters, RO system and spare part in case anything breaks on you.
 
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Wastei said:
You need to redesign the system, it's not very optimized with how the pipes are drawn IMO. I would much rather do DTW (drain to waste) in Aero if you're going for a High Pressure system. One 120psi boost pump won't do it. I don't know the specs on the nozzles you use but you should aim to keep them as close to specs as possible and calculate spray time and volume accordingly.

I say this and I've built a recirculating Aero system that is in storage currently but it produced very well. You need a lot of parts, patience and knowledge to get it right! You can check out my journal to see specs of my system. Up to eight sites with a Aquatec 8852 pump and a small accumulator tank.

You also need filters, RO system and spare part in case anything breaks on you.
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Ive done several grows with it already, get 1 lb of plant the first 4 and it goes down from there. I just re ran the linea ctually so there is only 1 prayer in a bvucket and single line running down the center. It helped a bit but still.
 
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You need to equalize the pressure from front to back. Adding an irrigation line with no sprayers from the manifold to the last pots will help. I would make two loops, rather than having the loops dead end as they do now connect both ends to the pump manifold. Then run another line from the pump manifold to the farthest two pots in the loops and connect with a tee to both far ends. This will help stabilize your pressure.
 
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lusidghost said:
If you're willing to do some soldering / wiring, these little pumps are great. I'm running a similar setup to aeroponics, and I have one pump per mist emitter.
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Hook Daddy said:
You need to equalize the pressure from front to back. Adding an irrigation line with no sprayers from the manifold to the last pots will help. I would make two loops, rather than having the loops dead end as they do now connect both ends to the pump manifold. Then run another line from the pump manifold to the farthest two pots in the loops and connect with a tee to both far ends. This will help stabilize your pressure.
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Yea that might work, I have a two way splitter I could do one like to the back 5 and one to the front 5, that might actually work.
 
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J. Rocket said:
make it a loop, equalizes pressure.
dead ending the run is the problem imo.
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its not really dead ending though its spraying out sprayers and then running through the drain back to the res, im not sure how looping it would help. And the pump does not run continuously, its 15 mins on 20 mins off
 
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It is still dead ending, a sprayer at the end does not help up your pressure, it lowers it. After the last sprayer hook the main irrigation line back to the pump, so the pump is supplying pressure to both ends not just one. This will help equalize the pressure to both ends. To make it even better run another line from the pump to the middle of both newly created loops. Problem solved.
 
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This is a terrible drawing but should help.

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I misunderstood exactly what you meant I guess, but I did take the general idea of equalizing pressure and ran two seperate lines, one line to 5 pots 1 line to another and it worked, getting equal pressure from all sprayers, thanks for the help. Im a farmer not a plumber but everything is good now.
 

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