Exactly. Knowing is half the battle amd learning is the fun part of the journey!
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So right!
Sounds like, pull the correct lever and get a treat? LOL
Why is always as important as How
Cheers
G
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SUPER interested in how you make out with this as I too wish to have a laminar setup for mycology as my winter project, looking forward to updates!
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Hey Rick hope all is ok.
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He must be off on another one of his adventures. 
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Well damn, time is a truly bizarre piece of this multidimensional experience we’re all tripping through here, isn’t it?
So some of you may have wondered “Did Ginger Rick get eaten by wolves? He’s usually such a loud one…”
No, not eaten. Stalked, run down, and chewed on a bit by wolves, but not totally devoured. I’m still alive and kicking, still free and weird.
Life just exploded in my face a little bit these last few months, pretty on brand for 2020 really, it had been too smooth sailing for me so far. Who gets outta this year without a big existential smack in the face huh?
Luckily for all the OG folks who want some more mad science builds and crazy shit in this thread I have been busier than ever! I’ve had some time on my hands, some serious insomnia, and some lovely anxiety and well. Thankfully my natural coping mechanism is to beat my head against everything in the lab about 14 hours a day and science my face off. Healthy distractions and whatnot. The upshot is that there has been a ton of planning, building, and prototyping going on around here. I’ve been busting my ass sideways getting everything dialed up and I should have quite the system humming come new years.
I’m still waiting for my ACMPR papers to arrive but I’ve been hard at work preparing for it, planning and building. A sample of what’s been in the works lately…
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Reconfiguring the UFO. New debatably responsible lighting system, maybe ludicrously overpowered! Smaller, more efficient, better spread, maneuverable, just a world better than the old Frankenstein monster lighting rig. Also changing up the control panel placement, moving a few outlets, and building a custom reservoir to get more height and canopy space without sacrificing on nutrient volume. I’m partway through the rebuild right now, gotta lay up some more coats of primer and chip away at the lighting stack today.
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Built out a lung box to manage temperature and humidity issues through the winter months. My cab is not in a well insulated part of the house and if I wanted to keep going through the cold months I needed to sort things out on that front. Built out another Mycodo control System to balance it all.
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Building out an entirely new propagation set up, including a laminar flow hood for tissue culture and a couple multi chamber micro cabs to house the cultures and harden off the babies. Again, yet another Mycodo controller to keep all that in check.
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Calling Health Canada to check the status of my ACMPR application because I apparently enjoy that totally pointless and uninformative exercise.
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Built 3 other cab’s for friends, realized I need a standardized system for these people, been working on designs for that.
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Tons of research! Lots of planning and studying for the UFO upgrades. But the time it’s back online it is going to be a full on Cannabis research station, measuring and graphing everything you could imagine… and even a few things you can’t! Hours and hours of data sheets, circuit schematics, endless Digikey part hunts, more data sheets, linear algebra refresher courses, and on and on…
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A whole lot of deeply appreciating my amazing wife’s ability to put up with a mad scientist in the throes of R and D mania. The fact that I somehow share my life with a charming and brilliant woman instead of just another room full of tools and robot parts still amazes me sometimes!
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Finally organizing the garage better. (Ok ok… this one’s still mostly wishful thinking…)
Plus all the other parts of life that just want to get in the way of all the building and growing and chilling. There’s been WAAAAAY too much of that lately.
But it’s all coming together here soon, and I very much look forward to finding the time to get myself back on OG on the regular. Right now, if I’m not on my feet in the lab I’m reading datasheets or laying out builds or digging into code or schematics or something. I do love all the work of the build and all the research but I am so ready to get back to running my systems instead of building them. Soon, very soon and in the end all the work will be worth the wait.
So I haven’t vanished entirely, just been deep deep deep in the lab. I’ll re-appear soon with some fun updates, and I should be around more regularily again in the new year.
Much Love OG people!
-gr
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ahh great to hear things are moving along! I think what life needs, is more calculus… never any call for that shit. 
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There he is!!
Glad to see you!
Really looking forward to see what level of wizardry you are up to now. 
Cheers
G
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@Ginger_Rick. Glad to see everything is ok with you!! Looking forward to see what you have up your sleeve!!
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So i have this cabinet setup in mind that would include a chamber to add activated charcoal in powder form. That would be the filter for exhaust. Should not be too difficult to re-purpose some type of tray in use and fit screen in it… then a squirrel cage fan in the manner of the ductless mini-split fan and filter systems for dust. Just have not built a cabinet from scratch yet.
s’ok t’ be here and then gone…just keep coming back!
just 4 u
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Squirrel cage blower, good choice, efficient and handles back-pressure well!
Cheers
G
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Wow, crazy build, i like your wild approach… cant wait to see you start with
“Some REALLY unusual stuff I’m not even kind of ready to talk about yet”
you mentioned in first post…
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He has not been here for 18 months now, I dont think you will get a reply, except from me
Good to see you back.
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