BullwinkleII's system

BullwinkleII

Yeah that's a good point.

But almost everything I make gets pulled apart soon after to make something else with, so the inverter would just go right back to its position as backup power.

I run everything off my 200 amp hour battery charged with a car battery charger.

But today I bought a 230 Watt solar panel!

Yay me.

BullwinkleII

For ages and ages on my blog, the most hit page was a mega-build post of how to get the most of your printer by using it to help make hand made fishing lures, but as of a few days ago, suddenly, it's now my little post on the workings of the humble bell siphon.

It seems even my audience is catching on to this aquaponics revolution.

vive la symbiotic relationship between plants and fish expressed in a backyard aquaponics eco-system, providing fresh organic vegetables and fish to feed an entire family in only a few square metres! :party2:

Some revolutionary catch cries don't translate as well as others.

BullwinkleII

Does anyone else just create a folder called "old desktop" and drag the mess that was their old desktop into it to tidy it up?

And does anyone else have an alarming number of "old desktop" folders within their old desktop folders?

Alarming!

BullwinkleII

RupertofOZ wrote:

BullwinkleII wrote:

I "Beeep shhhhhhhht BeDing Be wang, kahhhh" sounds, I'll know my aquaponics system is calling.

Yep.. always handy to know you've got a problem with your system... when you're 200km away from home... :mrgreen:

The secret is to ring the police and report yourself as running a meth lab. The light from the chopper resets your solar system and you get a night time boost for free/25years

Dan`

BullwinkleII wrote:

Does anyone else just create a folder called "old desktop" and drag the mess that was their old desktop into it to tidy it up?

And does anyone else have an alarming number of "old desktop" folders within their old desktop folders?

Alarming!

hahaha so im not the only one that does that then. most people i know have well sorted out file systems and know where everything is..... if i keep mine "tidy" i can never find a damn thing.

rsevs3

Mine is more backup folders than desktop folders. I have about a million of them!

BullwinkleII

Does everyone know you can cut 90mm PVC storm drain with scissors?

And if so, why wasn't I told :dontknow:

After trying to make a media guard by filing and sawing and drilling, I decided to see if I could trim it clean with scissors. :roll:

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orcy2010

dont think i've ever needed to cut a piece of 90mm in that direction. I always use a handsaw or hacksaw, depending on how rough i'm feeling, and rub the burrs off with a rag.

TCLynx

I'd never thought to try it!

BullwinkleII

I needed to cut it that way because I was making a media screen for a blue barrel constant flood standpipe. The barrel cap had a screw thread that fit a standard 19mm poly fitting. So the water exit was from the end, and the screen needed to be shaped to fit around the bulge around the cap, and halved lengthways.

BullwinkleII

I've just had an idea ...

If you put air into a zero head side by side system by adding it within the grow bed, you might shift water away from the grow bed toward the fish tank instead of the other way around.

The media might slow the air down, making it remain useful for longer.

Stick a stack of airstones under your media.

Add a big [air] pump that you might only run for a couple of minutes per hour, or one of my PVC hinged air dump things, so you can add a lot of air with an always on small air pump.

Make sure your grow bed and fish tank are connected freely (like daves all in one bed with a brick wall divider) and dump a stack of air into the grow bed.

The heap of air displaces a heap of water.

The grow bed water level rises.

The water overflows into the flish tank

The air turns off.

The water flows back into the grow bed.

Low energy, zero head, constant flood, ebb and flow, super oxygenated - media based air retention... system.

Perhaps.

RupertofOZ

BullwinkleII wrote:

Perhaps....

The heap of air displaces a heap of water.

The grow bed water level rises.

The plants rise with the water level

The media rises with the water level

The water overflows into the flish tank

The plants overflows into the flish tank

The media overflows into the flish tank

BullwinkleII

Scoria wouldn't try to run away, but I had escaping clay balls floating around in my fish tank when I added water for the first time

BullwinkleII

RupertofOZ wrote:

BullwinkleII wrote:

Perhaps....

The heap of air displaces a heap of water.

The grow bed water level rises.

The plants rise with the water level

The media rises with the water level

The water overflows into the flish tank

The plants overflows into the flish tank

The media overflows into the flish tank

So what you're saying is you think it might work TOO well

BullwinkleII

I went to collect my solar panel today that I bought at auction.

It sparkled a bit too much as the glass was smashed.

So I offered them 50$ for two and the said yes.

$50 / (230 watts X 2)

Solar just got really viable

Now all I need is a new shower screen and a front window for my house.

Ever noticed the way scrounging for junk to make projects always leaves holes in other "useful" things like houses?

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