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073: Timed Plant Watering System and Candle From Altoids Tin or Nivea Tin and Interview with Todd Jarrett - The Prepper Podcast
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Topic:
How to Run a Timed Plant Watering System for Starting Saplings
Brian starting seeds, wants pole barn to harvest water, needs to automate to water
Scenario 1 (Best and easiest)
* Run waterhose from house to bed
* Place timer at your home tap going to hose
Scenario 2
* Elevate your totes off the ground, just under the gutters of the pole barn.
* Catch rain in gutters that drain into totes
* Place timer on bottom of the totes that open and gravity feed to the bed
* If you do this, don’t use a sprinkler system, use a drip system
Scenario 2 Electrical setup
* 12v 8AH SLA (sealed lead acid) battery for holding power
* Sunforce 7 Amp Charge Controller
* Renogy 10 Watt Photovoltaic Solar Panel
* Docooler Mini Micro Brushless Water Oil Submersible Pump (5W)
* If nighttime came and never showed day again, the pump could continuously run for 19.2 hours
* Which you will not
* It will take about 10 hours of sunlight to charge the battery fully
* Woods 50015 Outdoor 7-Day Heavy Duty Digital Outlet Timer for the pump
Alternate setup to remove electrical costs
* Orbit 62061N-91213 Single Dial Water Timer
* 4000 on and off cycles per 2 AA batteries
* Use Enloop Batteries to have recharge capability.
* Use this setup, off of a water hose. When you expand your operation, you may want to so some more permanent piping.
Another thing to Consider
* Elevate your bed that you will be starting seeds in
* Let bed overflow into another tank to reclaim what overflowed in the bed
* Similar to a hydroponics setup
* Could run a pump to recirc back into the top tank if you wanted a closed system with rain makeup
How to Make a Candle out of an Altoids Tin or Nivea Tin
* Martin asked a question about making a candle in an Altoids tin.
Melt the Wax for the Candle
* Use Paraffin wax or Bees wax for your candle
* Melt the wax in an old soup can or a pot
* If you want to color your wax, you can melt crayon wax into the pot with the wax
Make Some Wicks for Your Candle
* While wax is melting, you need pure cotton twine or some tea candle wicks
* Just remove metal and wick from tealights
* If possible, go ahead and prep your wick by coating it in wax, but this step isn’t necessary.
* Glue tealight wicks to bottom of altoids tin so they stay in place when you put the wax in
* If using cotton twine, or a wick without a base, just build a small stand you can tie the wick to above the tin to hold it vertical
* I would recommend about 3-4 wicks in the tin so you have the ability to use all the wax when burning… not to burn them all at once.
* Cut the wicks flush with the top of the altoids tin.
Pour The Wax into the Altoids Tin
* Pour the melted wax into the altoids tin taking care to leave the wicks where they are meant to be.
* Before the wax solidifies, you can make some adjustments to the wick position.
Solidify the Wax
* Place the Tin in the freezer
* Solidify faster
* Candles burn more evenly
Add “The Extras”
* Take two old cardboard match books and glue them to the lid of the Altoids tin, and you will have a way to light the candle.
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Housekeeping:
1. Please give me a review at theprepperpodcast.com/itunes
a. i have a little something for you that review me… but you will have to wait till the end.
2. Questions or Comments: (978) KNOWS-IT or (978) 566-9748
a. green bar on right side of the homepage that says record on it
Topic:
How to Run a Timed Plant Watering System for Starting Saplings
Brian starting seeds, wants pole barn to harvest water, needs to automate to water
Scenario 1 (Best and easiest)
* Run waterhose from house to bed
* Place timer at your home tap going to hose
Scenario 2
* Elevate your totes off the ground, just under the gutters of the pole barn.
* Catch rain in gutters that drain into totes
* Place timer on bottom of the totes that open and gravity feed to the bed
* If you do this, don’t use a sprinkler system, use a drip system
Scenario 2 Electrical setup
* 12v 8AH SLA (sealed lead acid) battery for holding power
* Sunforce 7 Amp Charge Controller
* Renogy 10 Watt Photovoltaic Solar Panel
* Docooler Mini Micro Brushless Water Oil Submersible Pump (5W)
* If nighttime came and never showed day again, the pump could continuously run for 19.2 hours
* Which you will not
* It will take about 10 hours of sunlight to charge the battery fully
* Woods 50015 Outdoor 7-Day Heavy Duty Digital Outlet Timer for the pump
Alternate setup to remove electrical costs
* Orbit 62061N-91213 Single Dial Water Timer
* 4000 on and off cycles per 2 AA batteries
* Use Enloop Batteries to have recharge capability.
* Use this setup, off of a water hose. When you expand your operation, you may want to so some more permanent piping.
Another thing to Consider
* Elevate your bed that you will be starting seeds in
* Let bed overflow into another tank to reclaim what overflowed in the bed
* Similar to a hydroponics setup
* Could run a pump to recirc back into the top tank if you wanted a closed system with rain makeup
How to Make a Candle out of an Altoids Tin or Nivea Tin
* Martin asked a question about making a candle in an Altoids tin.
Melt the Wax for the Candle
* Use Paraffin wax or Bees wax for your candle
* Melt the wax in an old soup can or a pot
* If you want to color your wax, you can melt crayon wax into the pot with the wax
Make Some Wicks for Your Candle
* While wax is melting, you need pure cotton twine or some tea candle wicks
* Just remove metal and wick from tealights
* If possible, go ahead and prep your wick by coating it in wax, but this step isn’t necessary.
* Glue tealight wicks to bottom of altoids tin so they stay in place when you put the wax in
* If using cotton twine, or a wick without a base, just build a small stand you can tie the wick to above the tin to hold it vertical
* I would recommend about 3-4 wicks in the tin so you have the ability to use all the wax when burning… not to burn them all at once.
* Cut the wicks flush with the top of the altoids tin.
Pour The Wax into the Altoids Tin
* Pour the melted wax into the altoids tin taking care to leave the wicks where they are meant to be.
* Before the wax solidifies, you can make some adjustments to the wick position.
Solidify the Wax
* Place the Tin in the freezer
* Solidify faster
* Candles burn more evenly
Add “The Extras”
* Take two old cardboard match books and glue them to the lid of the Altoids tin, and you will have a way to light the candle.