I got the system squared away, after one more bit of minor trouble. I was able to pH the Res…
…I was not able to get the nutes mixed or the Girls transplanted.
I decided I should probably babysit the system through at least one entire cycle - Fill and Drain, especially. It’s a good thing I did.
This ‘may’ sound familiar to a few of you good folk. 
Fill went amazingly well. Those buckets are full in about a minute (I will time it one of these cycles).
I sat there the entire time waiting for it to complete the cycle.
The Drain light and the Draim pump came on after about staying on the Fill cycle for about 12 minutes (approx.)
I sat there and sat there and sat there waiting and waiting and waiting…patiently babysitting the system as I waited.
I could hear to water being pumped into the Res but the level didn’t seem to be going down.
It looked like this, about 2 inches of Feed line, was too long and it was siphoning back into the control bucket through the Feed line (with that pump off) as fast as the Drain pump was pumping it back into the Res.
This first picture is right after I lifted that open end of the Feed line out of the water and it started flowing as it should have been.
I sat there nearly 25 minutes waiting on the system to empty! 
That should do the trick!
That never happened the last time I ran the system. The only difference?
The Res was about where it is now but, the Control Bucket and the 5 gallon buckets were up in the loft.
And, before I discovered this siphoning problem I decided to get the air pump off the floor and above where the air line enters the buckets. Thank you to all who filled me in! I really appreciate it!
It was crazy noisy, it was just temporary (so I could at least try to get some rest without worrying about that potentiality and before addressing it in a more permanent manner)…I again tipped it on to two legs and it pretty much silenced it. There was minor noise/vibration transference. Really weird phenomena, especially since it’s sitting on a Barrel Drum!!!
I had all my formulas ready. I had the “new” weighing system ready to go. Two matching transfer containers and the powered paint mixer!
I tried!
But, I have to try and get ‘some’ rest - it’s been a long day! About a 20 hour day, by rough math.
I’m going to babysit it through one more cycle to ensure it is all really working when it is supposed to be working and in the correct order!
Then, it’s moving day!
Oh, I don’t know how I did it but, as I was rushing around I somehow allow a 8 foot long piece of 2 inch PVC pipe leaning against the wall right next to the entrance from the vestibule to fall on its own, without any input from me - it’s been sitting right there for months without incident.
It came down on the wall switch for the overhead lights in here. The lights went out and I can’t get them to turn back on. I fiddle with the switch, seeing IF I moved in any particular way IF it were make a connection inside the switch housing. That didn’t make a difference. I checked the circuit breaker a couple of times. That didn’t make a difference.
Somehow the light switch being mechanically switched off by the fall of a piece of PCV pipe broke the lights. It just hit the switch in a movement like a hand would perform just with a bit more force behind it and it broke something, I think something inside the switch itself.
I’m going to turn that circuit breaker off.
I’m going to unplug the Hydro system.
I don’t need another or ‘more’ unusual circumstances to occur while I’m hopefully dead to the world, at least for a little while!
Oh, WHAB’s Laundry Is Open For Business Today! Oh joy!
I have something in the works to ameliorate that situation!
Good morning!
Make it a great day - ALL! 
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WHAB
Not 12 inch, not 16 inch…not even equal dimensions across the structure!
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to you, good sir!,
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Kicks my own ass I knew better. I knew to have some on hand for when I knew I’d have to change out the grommets that had seen some work. I never expected this to happen.
