Saturday, March 26, 2011

New NFT water inlet system

I had to come up with another water inlet for the NFT system. The 1/8 inch barb and tubing were just not going to allow the water flow from the pump installed and would have looked like a small trickle through the system. I came up with a simple way to do it with all 3/4 inch pvc pipe. Just took a few T's and some cutting and it works perfect. Each tube in the NFT system is getting the same level of water flow and height in tube.

Here is the design. Very simple but effective.




Here it is installed and all joints cemented.




Here you can see how much water is moving through each one of these inlet tubes.


I also added a valve to regulate the flow of water from pump if needed. Right now wide open seems to be fine.

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