My Quest for silence. . .
So with the wheel out of the picture for a while, my room just got much quieter. . . A great thing if you live in a double. on the top floor no less. . . I believe my neighbors actual words were "sounds like a death ray over my bedroom". . . . They're pretty good peeps though, i moved it to a different room with carpeting and tried to make it better, but it was always audible. they said nothing more for over a year. they deserve a break too i guess
now. . . to make everything else as quiet and stealth as possible. With no grow going on, I am free to play with all my equipment, my layout, the plan. . . I am obviously getting way smaller in scale with one less tent and one less wheel. i was doin too much.
Surprisingly, set up the way the CAP instructions tell you to, the unit is pretty damn loud itself. shooting a jet of water down two feet into a barrel of water makes an unmistakeable sound, and it is fairly loud too. lets see what we can do here. . .
fist, the tiny stream of water shooting out of the dumb siphon elbow is loud as hell. toss that thing and replace with a T piece, and on the side that is acting like that pinhole, use a piece of hose to connect a ball valve to control flow, and point it at the wall of the barrel. silent. now, for return line; replace with an elbow, point at the wall, silent. in the control bucket; I rotated the elbow 180* to put the elbow part in the bucket, and splash it off the wall. silent.
now, the pumps in the reservoirs vibrate. if they lie on the floor the vibrate the floor. . . solution was I cut the poly hose so that the pump hangs 1" from the floor with out touching it. kills vibrations. silent. My
Ebb n Gro is now in
Stealth Mode
If you are in my room, you can hear the ballast fan, the air pump that is suspended to dampen its vibrations. and a slight trickle of water for 15 minutes of every 4 hours, and I do mean slight (Feeding time). and everything is running. . .
no fans, no air circulation, no carbon filters (well, maybe cycle one every so often), all water cooled, and it's working like a charm. without the 600 on the room is cool and the tent gets to about 6 or 7 degrees above ambient, and the chiller is not on, so i can use it on the res as it was intended. water cooled is silent, and completely the shit. . . i still have to try it in the summer though.
pump up some co2 next time, maybe i can get a co2 controller if i don't need a bigger chiller, although it might be doseable with a timer since i can infrequently cycle my carbon filter if i want. there will have to be AC in the tent in the summer anyways. not sure if I have the juice to run one and a big chiller. . .
anyways,
if you are in the next room, you can hear nada. hopefully my neighbors will hear nada.
I can close everything and it stays temperate for the first time in a long time. . the only thing making any real heat is the ballast and the radiation. and it isn't all that much, the water takes it all.
after i build the aero unit I'll start up again... hopefully before the summer heat sets in.
when I do, my room will officially be
"STEALTH SCHMODED"
EnG'ers out there, are you schmoded? I am now
brother 
) I've been the most successful w/ 4 per sq. ft in SOG. The plant numbers get HIGH, however the veg time is very short and the yeild as well as maintenance is more. But effective as hell IMHO. So weight/(energy*time) could possibly measure up even better at the end.
.... Or set a new goal...2g/w (gain title, king of the tent!)...
brother, hope you blow it out of the ballpark!
