Breaking Brix: Buck's DIYs

Curious how your temp swings are?
 
Buckshot317 said:
I was about to ask ya for it lol. That pot design looks pretty interesting. Looking forward to seeing you run it.
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I am curious about these SIPs as well. They can grow some amazing veggies for sure if you look on the inter webs. I think my only challenge will be figuring out a way to properly drench. I have my ideas but we will see what happens in practice!!
 
I cracked 8 seeds then put in rapid rooters with just sprinkle of doc's roots.
4= cherry vanilla cookies
3= huckleberry kush
1= sour strawberry

Idk if I started enough, hoping for 4 females. After I test, if don't have enough I'll pop few more, or will add kosher kush fems I have.
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Hell yes I can't wait!!!
 
The owner of the boards I bought called today to let me know everything was shipped, and he threw in some extras. I asked what, but he said I'll be very happy. Now that's customer service, there's only few places that does that. No sending emails to China, waiting days for response. Wish more companies were like that.

This is the 1st and last time using rapid rooters. Dropped seeds, 12 hours later I have pecker gnats(fungus gnats). Wtf, they were crawling out of the sponges. Had a few from some fox farms soil year or so ago but nothing like today. I tossed them in garbage. Seems odd, they look and feel like sponges not soil based. Where did gnats come from?
 
I honestly don't know dude. We have used rapid rooters in the past and canna uses them when she plants a seed. Never had any gnats. Did you pull the seeds out of them before tossing?
 
Nismo12 said:
I honestly don't know dude. We have used rapid rooters in the past and canna uses them when she plants a seed. Never had any gnats. Did you pull the seeds out of them before tossing?
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No, I almost, then thought about how much $ for the seeds lol. I threw the rest of them out, won't use again. There's no advantage over a simple solo cup.

I'm puzzled, doesn't make sense the rapid rooters having gnats.

4 cherry vanilla cookies, they all cracked open
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The huckleberry kush' s cracked, but I dropped them upside down, so had to pull out and put into cups. It won't let me post that pic.

Here's rest of girls
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I guess 420 doesn't like pics with solo cups lol
 
I grew a month with a panel running at 30 watts (which is regoddamndiculous) to 8 cobs and they were already well into budding before I fixed my mistake and it's been a few weeks since my panels (added 2 more with 1 to go) have been running to their full potential and I'm anticipating some good weight from plants that adeedre suppose to only yield 1-4 oz plus I've had PH/Cal Mag/lockout issues with autos, so I think that will be a true test of what these cobs can do.
 
My head is swimming Buck! I have been researching what it will take to control the Big 320h-c2100b drivers and also the monos. I'm gonna throw some ideas at you and see if you can help.

Commercially there is the Storm, the HurricaneX, the bluefish, bluefish mini. I want to control four lights on opposite schedules. As you know the meanwell will do 3 in 1 dimming but it is 10v PWM. The really good dimming for monos are the small 5V PWM ldd drivers. But that's 5V not 10v. And the only controller that will do two types of dimming at once is the bluefish regular. It has internal jumpers for each Channel. But the bluefish is pricey and only has six channels. It does have a cool Bluetooth app to change settings though. So at a minimum I want to control white, red, and far red at a minimum. Later I may want to add blue or UV.

So I think I will have to eventually have two controllers, one set to 5w PWM, and the other 10W PWM. Right now I just want to control two opposite sets of white, red, and far red. Which the bluefish can do with six channels. I just have to read again and make sure the different channels can have different sunrise and sunset times. My question is this. How do I connect more than one driver per channel? Just use a wago to connect them all to the same controller output?
 
ShiggityFlip said:
My head is swimming Buck! I have been researching what it will take to control the Big 320h-c2100b drivers and also the monos. I'm gonna throw some ideas at you and see if you can help.

Commercially there is the Storm, the HurricaneX, the bluefish, bluefish mini. I want to control four lights on opposite schedules. As you know the meanwell will do 3 in 1 dimming but it is 10v PWM. The really good dimming for monos are the small 5V PWM ldd drivers. But that's 5V not 10v. And the only controller that will do two types of dimming at once is the bluefish regular. It has internal jumpers for each Channel. But the bluefish is pricey and only has six channels. It does have a cool Bluetooth app to change settings though. So at a minimum I want to control white, red, and far red at a minimum. Later I may want to add blue or UV.

So I think I will have to eventually have two controllers, one set to 5w PWM, and the other 10W PWM. Right now I just want to control two opposite sets of white, red, and far red. Which the bluefish can do with six channels. I just have to read again and make sure the different channels can have different sunrise and sunset times. My question is this. How do I connect more than one driver per channel? Just use a wago to connect them all to the same controller output?
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That's similar to what I was looking at. Putting multiple drivers on one channel. I'm thinking you can wire the drivers in parallel to a channel. Let me look some more tonight. But the meanwell's dim from 10-100%, I talked to vitaly again today for over an hour, about his controller. On his you have to buy the controller and the interface board. The interface can handle up to 1200watts, 4 channels, 2-white, 1-red, 1-blue. On his you power up the interface with 120v, the interface powers the drivers. He said this allows to dim or shut off colors or drivers, and has fuses and protection. It's kinda pricey also, $350 total. It does have timer, sunrise sunset features.

I'll read up more tonight. If the controllers you mentioned work the way I think they do, you can wire multiple driver dimmer outputs in parallel with one channel. But need research more on the multiple sunrise and sunset features.
 
Buck's 1500 Watts Of COBs

Yeah for the cost of the bluefish someone could buy two hurricaneX controllers and add the 16 channel adapters. One hurricane with the 10V adapter and the other staying with 5V. But. The bluefish does have the Bluetooth phone app programming which is cool.

And I just confirmed the hurricane will do different sunrise and sunset for each channel.
 
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