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02-23-2003, 09:53 AM
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Steve,
Looks, well, no words come to me. What size is the pump? I'm interested to see your flow diagram. I had bad luck with the sponge technique, maybe you will have better luck. Lee
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02-23-2003, 05:02 PM
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I have never had a problem with the sponge, I just shut down my old one that was running for 6 months last night and it was fine. what kinda sponge were you using?
anyways as for the flow patteren it was the result of a bad dream I had (maby after eatting to much pizza :shock: ) here is a pic of the inside of the box.  by ever account this is a single tube 24" tall reactor with a box on the bottom to increase the amount of water available to be cirulated. Basicly I just cut it in half and plumbed it so it would still act as a single tube. I just wanted the lower hight.. the totaly hight of the unit is 18" Steve
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04-05-2003, 06:33 PM
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Okay so I've built my own Ca reactor, got it all ready except I can't find those small valves to control the ammount of water leaving the thing.... Where pray tell did you find them?....
The little valve with the blue finger handle thing.....
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04-05-2003, 07:02 PM
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Excellent thanks for the info....
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04-07-2003, 06:16 PM
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Brad, I've been calling around and no one knows what I'm talking about, so I describe it, .... anyway, $10 each..... I was at Revy and took a look in the gardening area at the automatic watering systems, I bought a Raindrip Micro Irrigation fix it kit that has a ton of stuff, including mini inline drippers that are colour coded, Red is 1/2 gph Black is 1 GPH, they also include Pressure compensating drippers, again Red is 1/2 gph, Black is 1 gph and Green is 2 gph.
It also comes with a ton of other stuff, which I can use for my orchids, btw... the part count for the drippers are 2 of each colour in both the inline dripper and the pressure compensating dripper, and if I really want to get tiny changes in my drip rate, I can use either the 1/4 turn adjustable one, or the 1/2 turn or the full turn rotary one... very cool find
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04-08-2003, 12:02 AM
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I was using the microdripers untill I changed it.. the reason I changed it.. the microdrippers slowly clog up over time so you have to stay on top of that .
Steve
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