so it's been one week since i've embarked on this unholy mess of trying something new. i know now my set up is not true airo but airo/dwc. i have fresh white roots growing out of the older shity ones and newb's poking out all over. i filled my res up all the way to 70g but it still heats up to 80f during the day (lights off). will try implementing fans blowing around the res to leach heat off and one blowing into the res for evaporation.
was able to drop my ppm's to 980 when i added the extra 30g of hose water ( on a well), still high but not as bad as 1200 ppm's. so, i didn't want to sound like an idiot and ask what R/O system was, and metalhead posted and i was armed with new info. then i started searching the forums.
some more Q?
can i hook up one of this r/o to the end of a hose and have it work?
could i hook up a co2 system in the inside of my chamber for the roots, having it pump in co2 for the min the sprayers are going or just in general?
i dropped some dry ice into my res, good or bad?
and now i quote myself
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Originally Posted by devilvenom
Now, why dose Europe and the U.S. have to have such different numbers when it comes to PPM's? if my nute solution is based on EC should i go with that or with PPM's?
from what i've been able to gather there's a 40% difference between the US and Europe PPM's. so is it to be more american that i should go with US calculations or is there an actual logical reasoning for this?
i bought the truncheon PPM meter and was confused as hell about what to do next, so this is where I'm at and it took forever for the boards to get back online.
according to my meter my well water is at 560 US PPM's and 400 EU PPM's which is to high as far as US ppm's. the Aqau Flakes system I'm using says i should start at 1.2 EC and end at 2.0. So how do i make a decision with such a difference in the information?
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thats all for now heres some pics
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