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This weekend I was trying to deal with some of the rampant cherry tomatos I have growing everywhere (I never picked the fruit on several bushes and now they are everywhere!) -- I wanted to pot some up to bring them in to work to give away, but alas I have no pots. I also really love Jiffy pots for growing flowers in on the kitchen windowsill, but the windowsill planter that Jiffy sell doesnt fit on my window for the larger pots - So i designed a little pot to carry both my tomato seedlings and my the 50mm size jiffy pots (the Jiffy 7 ones).
This is what I came up with:
They are a simple 3 piece design, using living hinges for the corners and tabs for glueless construction (and easy destruction for re-planting). I'm re-using old freezer bags or cling wrap from lunches to line them.
I have 3 drain holes in the bottom that I figure I'll be able to poke the plastic liner through once the planes get a little more mature:
They dont stack brilliantly if I'm honest, but I have an idea i'm going to draw up and cut tonight which should stack them better and more securely:
4 of these have Jiffy pots I hydrated and planted last night
Any ideas on how I could improve these or make them more gift worthy?
This weekend I was trying to deal with some of the rampant cherry tomatos I have growing everywhere (I never picked the fruit on several bushes and now they are everywhere!) -- I wanted to pot some up to bring them in to work to give away, but alas I have no pots. I also really love Jiffy pots for growing flowers in on the kitchen windowsill, but the windowsill planter that Jiffy sell doesnt fit on my window for the larger pots - So i designed a little pot to carry both my tomato seedlings and my the 50mm size jiffy pots (the Jiffy 7 ones).
This is what I came up with:
They are a simple 3 piece design, using living hinges for the corners and tabs for glueless construction (and easy destruction for re-planting). I'm re-using old freezer bags or cling wrap from lunches to line them.
I have 3 drain holes in the bottom that I figure I'll be able to poke the plastic liner through once the planes get a little more mature:
They dont stack brilliantly if I'm honest, but I have an idea i'm going to draw up and cut tonight which should stack them better and more securely:
4 of these have Jiffy pots I hydrated and planted last night
Any ideas on how I could improve these or make them more gift worthy?
Whoa very nicely planned out and very picturesque that is an excellent photo! They look plenty gift worthy IMHO.
Well i made a nice little interconnecting shelf for them to stack nicely, and bought 15 different types of herbs and flowers for seeds to populate these with... and my laser tube power supply explodes.. again. The laser wasnt even firing this time, powersupply only had 2hrs on it. Oh well, new powersupply ordered.
For a first world country, Australia sure does have some really awful quality power. Its meant to be 240v, measured it at 257v.. my 220V powersupply didn't like that much.
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Well i made a nice little interconnecting shelf for them to stack nicely, and bought 15 different types of herbs and flowers for seeds to populate these with... and my laser tube power supply explodes.. again. The laser wasnt even firing this time, powersupply only had 2hrs on it. Oh well, new powersupply ordered.
For a first world country, Australia sure does have some really awful quality power. Its meant to be 240v, measured it at 257v.. my 220V powersupply didn't like that much.
I have an Epilog and the power supply is able to handle a significant variation in voltage without a problem, but that does seem a bit much. You can buy a power conditioner that acts much like a water pressure regulator and keeps the voltage steady. Might be a good investment as they cost much less than a new tube. I think I paid $100 or so for one that I use for electronics during a power outage when using the generator.
I have an Epilog and the power supply is able to handle a significant variation in voltage without a problem, but that does seem a bit much. You can buy a power conditioner that acts much like a water pressure regulator and keeps the voltage steady. Might be a good investment as they cost much less than a new tube. I think I paid $100 or so for one that I use for electronics during a power outage when using the generator.
The new powersupply is a genuine RECI one, the manufacturer of my laser 'accidentally' didn't put the powersupply I specified into the machine. Its a 220v +/- 10% powersupply. Thankfully it wasn't the tube blowing, with shipping thats $2k. The new powersupply is 90-250V so should cope much better, it has intelligent fault analysis in it, and various other features which is nice.
Hemlock140 are you using a PC UPS? I didnt think one of those would be very happy with the loads of a laser, mine will consume 1.5kW of power with all the motors moving, chiller running, air pumps and laser firing... another 700W for the extractor. Even just the laser powersupply would be 600W, but in bursts which tend to displease computer UPS.
On a more positive note, I made some shelves before the PSU blew. I'm pretty pleased with how they stack up now.
Pretty crappy photos sorry, just taken with my phone before bed.
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No, I don't use a PC UPS except for my computer. The laser is in a power conditioner, the air pump and exhaust fan just in the outlets directly. Sometimes I work with odd things like food. Here's something I did for upcoming Halloween.
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