Sunday, March 06, 2005

She's (mostly) finished...

I'll be the first to admit that the final result was quite a bit different from what I first pictured in my head when I thought this project up... but the function is still the same. A combination of fountain, fogger humidifier, planter, and cat waterer. The wooden box surrounds a rubbermaid plastic bin which acts as a catch basin, from there a 4 watt pump sends the water up a 1/4" hose inside the length of bamboo at the back. It pours into the ceramic pot at the top also which has a fogger in it, (I still need to put some rocks in there to hide the wire), and that overflows into the bamboo trough in the front. Then it spills down into another catch trough at the bottom for the cats to drink from. The cats love "running" water, and took to drinking from it the first time I turned it on. All n' all I think it turned out pretty well, but next time I'm gonna use a slightly larger pump, I'm not too impressed with the flow rate outta this one. Now if I could only keep the trickling water noise from making people have to pee...

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