What up DGC! Has anyone used the Trollmaster Hydro x controller? I’m looking for something that can control almost everything ,mainly C02 and Lighting, but preferably something for a mini split and humidity as well. I dunno if there’s such thing as a VPD controller but that seems like it’d take care of temps and humidity. As far as the lights id like something that i could adjust in terms of ppfd. I have a pulse pro in my flower tent so I can take ppfd readings which is dope AF but id like to be able to adjust both my tents ppfd via a controller. In my 5×5 flower tent i have 9 (soon to be 12) Chilled Logic pucks, 4 far red initiator pucks and 2 exotic boards all by RapidLED. In my 4×4 veg tent I have a Hyphotonflux HPF4000, 2 royal blue pucks and a Core85 bar by RapidLED. The HPF4000 has 0-10v RJ14 or RJ45 with an adaptor for controller inputs and I’m not sure what the RapidLED controller inputs are. Besides the trollmaster is there a controller that does C02 AND lights preferably with ppfd control? Iv also looked at Growtronix but it seems more for bigger grows and its twice as expensive then the Trollmaster. And any feedback on the trolmaster or any other controller is greatly appreciated!
TB
This all sounds nice but I don’t think your going to find something for the home grower to do all this. You could use your Pulse pro to get an idea of what PPFD the light is at, when dimmed at different percentages. Then get something like a California Light Works Solor controller that can be programmed for dimming your light on a full schedual. Just make sure the brand works with your light. Once your able to compare your light to the PPFD your pulse is reading then you could have it dim at the right percentages. Just going to take some manual testing and adjustments at first.
I have no experience with that particular controller, but I’ve found that having one controller controlling too many things can greatly increase the likelihood of something going wrong. The more jobs you give a controller, the more opportunities you’ve got for something to go horribly wrong.
Having one controller running your whole room is like having all your “eggs in one basket” so to speak. If that one controller goes wrong or if theres some sort of issue, you usually don’t have any redundancy or backups covering your butt. For this reason I always recommend using multiple controllers, or setting things up in a way that you have a fail-safe backup.
What Soup said.
Hey, take a look into inkbird. They have a humidity controller and temp controller and neither have let me down. Then use a pulse pro if your into being in top of the readings and constant ability to check on the grow. Not gonna repeat soup just giving you some options to look into. I could understand if you had a room to control for the troll master but two tents. It seems a bit unnecessary.
I already have a few ink bird temp and humidity controlers, there actually how I keep my curing tent below 65°F and 60% humidity with very little to NO fluctuations, especially the humidity, it dosnt fluctuate more then 1% so I agree there great. The only flaw is that there is no day/Night settings and its the night time where I have most of my problems. I guess I could get more inkbirds and put them on a timer to only run at night…. I’ll keep that in mind but either way Thanks for the advice tho much appreciated