Bokonon
Well-Known Member
I haven't built a stir plate yet, but just today I was looking for something and came across my old X-10 home automation stuff. I've got an aquarium pump, hepa filter, and airstone already, and in previous batches I would leave the stone in the starter and plug in the pump every few hours for a few minutes. Well sometimes I would forget I had it plugged in for a few minutes so it would foam out the top.
So today I hooked the pump up to an appliance module and have it set to kick on for 2 minutes every 5 minutes. I'll see over the next few hours how the schedule is working, if it foams up too much I'll have to cut it down to a 1 minute duration or a 10 minute interval.
Not sure if anyone has tried something like this before but I thought I would throw it out there. I'm sure eventually I'll actually build a stir plate since I should have everything necessary (minus the stir bar), but I'll have to find the box that has all my electronic components in it from when I moved a while ago.
So today I hooked the pump up to an appliance module and have it set to kick on for 2 minutes every 5 minutes. I'll see over the next few hours how the schedule is working, if it foams up too much I'll have to cut it down to a 1 minute duration or a 10 minute interval.
Not sure if anyone has tried something like this before but I thought I would throw it out there. I'm sure eventually I'll actually build a stir plate since I should have everything necessary (minus the stir bar), but I'll have to find the box that has all my electronic components in it from when I moved a while ago.