@Mpower11 Wow! You my friend, are awesome. Thanks for taking the time to give such a detailed response.
For ph/ec I’m using a blurlab guardian monitor. It is cleaned and calibrated with every water change using blue labs calibration solutions.
For co2 I am currently using a titan hyperion 1 with a titan regulator and solenoid. This controller turns off co2 at night. However I am running a sealed tent, so the co2 is necessarily exhausted… throughout the night it doesn’t pump co2 in but I am also not exhausting it. Considering hooking an exhaust up for this…
My temp and humidity are controlled by inkbird controllers. As of now, I have no control over day vs night Temps. They remain the same day or night with a 2 point sway plus or minus. I’m running my tent sealed, I’ve got a heater in the tent, portable AC located outside the tent which is ducted into the tent. Humidifer and dehumidifier located inside of the tent.
I am going to bump temp up to 85 and humidity to 65 during the day and I’ll manually turn the temp down at night for now. I am trying to think of a way to control my night time temperatures automatically… possibly a second inkbird on a timer, I’ll have to put more thought into it.
When mixing nutrients I have a separate reservoir. I fill with 0ppm ro water, i have a 900GPH Danner mag drive pump mixing the water as well as an air stone. I heat the water to 68 degrees and while heating I calibrate my ph and ec probe. Then add my powersi (which I will now cut out for the time being) I let the powersi mix for an hour. Next I add my cal mag until I reach 0.3 ec (I will now be adding until 0.4ec) after letting mix for about 10 minutes and I notice the ec stabilizes, I weigh my v1 and add the v1 to a cup with a liter of my res water. I mix and allow all powder to dissolve in cup then I add to my res. Let mix for about 10 minutes again waiting for ec to stabilize. Repeat for v2. Let mix for 10 minutes then I adjust my ph by adding ph up. ( I shouldn’t need much now that I’m not using the powersi, the floraflex seems to get very close to ph of 6.) I then let the entire res mix while I empty my dwc system. I am able to remove about 90 percent of the water in the system. Next I transfer my res water to my dsw system.
The first 2 days the ph seems to drop a point every 24 hours so I add a few drops of ph up a few minutes apart u til my ec is back at 5.8 which is where I aim to maintain it. After the first 2 days the ph seems to stay stable until the 5th day it drops another point and this is the day I do my water change.
In my control bucket for the system I have two external inline pumps. One being a 900gph Danner mag drive which feeds my chiller and then returns to the control bucket. The other being a 700gph that feeds water from my control, to all 4 of my dwc buckets. In turn the system is constantly recirculating.
I do not have a PAR meter, but based on some YouTube par reviews on my light,I should be right around 400-500 par at this brightness level and height. I skimmed through a few posts you’ve made in regard to par meters. Conclusion is that there is no proper and cheap option for led lighting basically? I may look into the pulse pro next…
Thanks a million your input is invaluable! I will follow your suggestions and report back sir!