Aquaponics As a Food Source

[GilpinGuy]

I made this basil pesto this last summer with my own Thai basil and garlic from my garden and it was insane! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-dOZezSwwM

Holy crap, I have to do this. Looks awesome.

[Irving]

So when are you going to turn this into my ultimate dream project by throwing solar into the mix and running the entire building off grid? Get your kid to wire up the solar, take a bunch of pictures and you'll have a GUARANTEED science fair victory.

[DFBrews]

I know a guy that does solar thermal he likes beer and may be me....


find a couple take off panels to heat the water bam save the whales and grow some whales

[GilpinGuy]

It woud be fun to try something solar but I never did a damn thing with solar except wear a watch that charged itself. I'll have to start looking into it.

DFB: By takeoff panels, do you mean used panels? And hot water solar panels right? Not PV.

[Irving]

I installed a solar panel on the roof of my van to help me keep all my electronics charged when I was working in the field a lot. It's basically just a mobile charging station. That's for another thread though.

I originally wanted to build a small, mobile generator and ended up just building it onto my van. I still may end up getting chickens and the plan is to power the coop with solar, but just because I want to, since chickens don't really need power. I figured I could power some lights and maybe one of those small electric heaters that keep the water from freezing.

[GilpinGuy]

You could automate the coop door too.

[Irving]

So I went to subscribe to your channel tonight and you have a lot of subscribers (IMO)! Well done. Your homemade quail feeder has a ton of views as well, which makes sense since that is exactly the kind of stuff I look up all the time.

[GilpinGuy]

Thanks! Fun stuff.

[GilpinGuy]

Here's a weird thing. I had a pretty bad humidity problem when I got this all up and running: ice on the windows, water dripping down the windows and soaking the frames, etc. So I got a humidistat and a fan and it worked fine. I set it at about 50-55% humidity and it would cycle on and off as needed. My only concern at first was that it was on A LOT. Too much is what I thought. It seemed like every time I went out there it was on.

For the last week or so, it has hardly come on at all and the humidity is constantly at 50-55%,. What the heck? Outside temps have been all over the place too, so that's not a reason. The only thing I can think of is that the humidistat/fan were drawing off all of the moisture from the other crap I have in there (carpet, insulation, tents, camping gear, fishing stuff, etc.) and now it's dried out and stabilized the humidity.

Not complaining...less fan = less electricity. Am I missing something?

[buffalobo]

Here's a weird thing. I had a pretty bad humidity problem when I got this all up and running: ice on the windows, water dripping down the windows and soaking the frames, etc. So I got a humidistat and a fan and it worked fine. I set it at about 50-55% humidity and it would cycle on and off as needed. My only concern at first was that it was on A LOT. Too much is what I thought. It seemed like every time I went out there it was on.

For the last week or so, it has hardly come on at all and the humidity is constantly at 50-55%,. What the heck? Outside temps have been all over the place too, so that's not a reason. The only thing I can think of is that the humidistat/fan were drawing off all of the moisture from the other crap I have in there (carpet, insulation, tents, camping gear, fishing stuff, etc.) and now it's dried out and stabilized the humidity.

Not complaining...less fan = less electricity. Am I missing something?

Very sound reasoning and highly probable you are correct.

Have seen same situation with flood cleanup in homes and basements. First 4-8 hrs not alot of improvement, next 12 hrs substantial change as air has been dried and moisture in materials in room begins to evaporate.



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