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No.... There is one pump in the "control" bucket. And one pump in the reservoir. When the the control bucket gets full so do all the other "plant" buckets. And when its 15 minutes is up and its ready to go back down again the "control" buckets pumps the water back into the reservoir. In the control bucket there is a float that tells the pump when to stop pumping so it doesnt run itself dry. And what happens is the pump rather quickly empties the water in the "control bucket" cause its only like 3 gallons (if that). But after it pumps all the water out of the control bucket all the other plant buckets by gravity will flow into the control bucket because their all plumbed together and its now pretty much empty (the control bucket). So as the plant buckets empty into the control bucket the control bucket will obviously start to fill up again so once again a float triggers the pump in the control unit to go on again. And this happens over and over until there isnt hardly any water left in the control bucket or the plant buckets. Like I said before you need to remember that the control bucket is plumbed into all the plant buckets so if the control bucket fills the plant buckets fill. And if the control bucket empties the plant buckets are emptied.
I hope that helps. I know it is probably pretty hard to grasp all this when its in text but I just got my control module today so the entire 5 gallon ebb and gro set is finally going to be finished and maybe that will help you visualize it. I have everything I need to get started. The only thing now thats in my way is that now my Girly wants to have a nice three day weekend with just the two of us, which roughly translates to ...NO WORKING ON YOUR DAMN HYDRO SHIT OR FORUMS! for me. So it just might be monday or tuesday before the completed TEK is actually up and viewable. Sorry to everyone who has been waiting so long for this to come together. I know its taken me FOREVER. So I just need to make it through the weekend with the girlfriend and then its back to working and playing with my toys. And next weeks toys will be 2- 1000watt Lumatek dimmables, a lightrail install, and of course the ending to this 5 gallon ebb and gro TEK. Thanks for veiwing everyone. Once again!
I hope that helps. I know it is probably pretty hard to grasp all this when its in text but I just got my control module today so the entire 5 gallon ebb and gro set is finally going to be finished and maybe that will help you visualize it. I have everything I need to get started. The only thing now thats in my way is that now my Girly wants to have a nice three day weekend with just the two of us, which roughly translates to ...NO WORKING ON YOUR DAMN HYDRO SHIT OR FORUMS! for me. So it just might be monday or tuesday before the completed TEK is actually up and viewable. Sorry to everyone who has been waiting so long for this to come together. I know its taken me FOREVER. So I just need to make it through the weekend with the girlfriend and then its back to working and playing with my toys. And next weeks toys will be 2- 1000watt Lumatek dimmables, a lightrail install, and of course the ending to this 5 gallon ebb and gro TEK. Thanks for veiwing everyone. Once again!