Weight activated basket and planter watering system

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• paulk2 Posts: 184

  July 2015

  Surprised Hozelock haven't done this already to link into their irrigation systems with drippers rather than using a timer control unit on the outside tap.

  It does look interesting, but I'm not sure how practical it would be unless your plants were located in a small area with a water feed.

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• John palmer2 Posts: 2

  July 2015

  I came across the site because I had made something similar myself, but using an extension spring balance, as I was interested in how much water to add to maintain moisture levels. I gravity feed water from a plastic box on a flat roof. My next version will use compression springs, which means that the basket will be a foot higher up! So much easier if I could buy one without paying $40 postage.

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• paulk2 Posts: 184

  July 2015

  That sounds like an interesting solution John.

  I've often wondered if there is something that would work for self watering individual plants based on a counterweight system, something akin to kitchen balance scales in reverse: I was thinking on the lines of holding a pot by it's rim over a water reservoir and then as the pot gets lighter it is automatically moved down into the water until it is heavy enough to move back out.

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