Stacked Container Hydroponics for Vertical Farming : Blog 4 - Nutrient Feed System

RE: Stacked Container Hydroponics for Vertical Farming : Blog 4 - Nutrient Feed System

balearicdynamics — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:31:11 GMT

Hi Rick,

simply great! It's a pleasure to see the project growing day by day.

As usual (hope not boring you) I have a couple of questions / suggestions, if you have not yet though. I continue my worry-line about the stacked weight and mechanism. I see that you plan to put all on the base of the solutions. Is this the final choice or not? I suppose not, but if it is so, I see two problems. The first is the plastic cover, that seems too thin and flexible to support the stacked parts, motor and terrain etc.

My plan is to cut the lid in half and create a hinge by gluing a single length of bicycle tire inner-tube along the length of each half each half.

The second is about this idea. I had had to solve a similar problem and this methods revealed not affordable. If you can reach a marine tools supplier somewhere around there is a specific solution that I am using and is working stable by about two years with an expense between 5$ and 10$ Let me know if it sounds interesting method and I will post some photos of how I have solved here.

A last detail is a warning: I see that - as in my case - the pump is just posed on the water with the four suction caps. I have done the same with a pump of almost the same size and after a week I started discovering the engine "navigating" on the bottom of the canister. The problem is that the low frequency vibrations of the pump motor and the micro components in the waters tend to free the suction cups. The only reliable solution I have found was to lock the pump with four screws then waterproofed with simple bath silicon rubber, specific for water.

Enrico

RE: Stacked Container Hydroponics for Vertical Farming : Blog 4 - Nutrient Feed System

shanesissons — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 12:04:24 GMT

your message popped up just as i was watching your video

looking great i like the stacked design

for reducing the water flow without spending to much you could add a smaller pipe inline to reduce the flow or you could add silicon inside the pipe with a straw going through it for a free option

i was thinking like you and had thought about using nozzles for the watering but after testing using holes seemed to work just as good

i did notice that they watering system only looks like it is watering every other pot

also a comment from you previous video the motor is turning the system really well have you tested this with load as i have noticed the motors have quite a low torque im thinking of using up to 4 motors together to get the torque up hopefully this will give me the power i need to rotate my system going to test this method in the coming days

RE: Stacked Container Hydroponics for Vertical Farming : Blog 4 - Nutrient Feed System

RWReynolds — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 09:32:18 GMT

OK, so I finally completed my latest blog post. Please take a look.

All comments, critique and questions are welcome. [View:/resized-image/__size/16x16/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-2b58a057-fb0b-4fcf-b38c-39132c503002/contentimage_5F00_1.png:16:16]

Cheers,

Rick

RE: Stacked Container Hydroponics for Vertical Farming : Blog 4 - Nutrient Feed System

DAB — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 20:51:48 GMT

You should have enough pump to do the job now.

With 72 inches, you could even add a few more pots if your base is stable enough.

DAB