Your mainline is full of water before the feed even starts. It’s been sitting there since the last one. Paradime doses the recipe into that water and keeps it moving until every last drop hits the room. Hit play and watch one feed, valve to plants.
On a computer you can run it yourself: drag the line, flow and depressurization sliders and watch the recipe still land at 100%.
That’s the whole feed. Every room, every time.
Room valve opens, then the main valve, on plain water. Not a drop of nutrient goes in until the flow meter says the line is moving.
Every pump runs at once, each into its own port on the header, each matched to the flow. The recipe mixes in the pipe. No tank.
Pumps stop. Water keeps running and pushes the recipe the rest of the way. Nothing gets left in the pipe.
Water doesn’t stop the second a valve closes; it keeps moving while the line depressurizes. Paradime counts it and closes early by exactly that much, so the tail end lands in the room, not past it.
Drag the line volume up. The rinse runs longer and you send more water, but the recipe still lands at 100%. A long run costs water. It never costs feed.
Pump speed comes off the flow meter, not a clock. Slow the line and every pump slows with it. Strength stays where you set it.
Water keeps moving while a line depressurizes after the valve shuts. Paradime measures how much and closes ahead of it, so the last of the feed ends up on the plants, not in the line.
Many setups dump the header and line to drain between feeds so old feed doesn’t start the next batch. Paradime ends every feed with the line full of clean water, so there is nothing to dump.
The last of each feed is pushed out with clean water and lands in the room. The valve closes early by exactly the water still moving as the line depressurizes, so none of it runs past.
Every pump follows the live flow, and a scale reads during the feed to keep the pumps calibrated. No off-strength batch to dump and remix, and no batch tank to fill, drain or clean.
Every pump runs off the live flow reading, not a timer. Line slows, pumps slow. Strength stays put. Drag the line flow slider up top and watch.
No. A longer line means a longer rinse and more water. The full recipe still gets there. Push the “water standing in the line” slider up and watch the recipe number stay at 100%.
Clean water. The line never empties. It sits full of the water the next feed starts with, so no recipe sits in the pipe overnight. Most systems leave nutrient standing in the line. See how they compare.
Any pump on a scale is read by the scale during the feed, what it was told against what actually left. When a tube starts wearing, you see it in the numbers before you see it in the crop, and the scale tells you which pump.
Every pump has a number for how much it moves per turn. During each feed, the scale reads what is leaving the drum and checks it against what the pump was told. When those drift apart, the system nudges that pump’s number itself, a little at a time. Tube wears, the correction follows on the next feed. Nobody recalibrates by hand. A sudden big miss sets off an alarm instead of getting quietly fixed.
We calibrate every pump against a scale at commissioning, across its whole speed range, and it runs on that. Want to check one later? Move a scale to it. The pump the scale leaves stays trained. Or put more pumps on scales. Each scale comes with its own fill pump, and your first scale doesn’t count toward your plan.
Every scale gets its own fill pump. When the drum on the scale runs low, the fill pump tops it back up from bulk to a set weight. Nobody’s hauling buckets to the scale.
Every system reads flow and line pressure. The flow meter is what paces the pumps. Add in-line pH and EC to read the recipe right in the line. Add wireless Aranet sensors for air (CO₂, temperature, humidity), light at the canopy and the root zone (moisture, temperature, EC). No wiring back to the panel. They show up on the Paradime screen and in the cloud, logged against every feed. pH & EC and room sensors need the Connected plan.
Yes. The parts go straight into the mainline, so there’s no batch tank to drain or dump. Next feed, different recipe.
Start with a 5-pump box, then add pumps one at a time or five at a time. Every zone box adds 16 valves. One control box runs all of it. Price yours.
Every feed. What was asked, what got delivered, who ran it and why, with flow, pressure, pH, EC and room readings right next to it.
Hydros is the assistant built into Paradime. Ask him about your feeds in your own words, like what ran overnight or which room drank the most this week, and he answers from your own feed log. Anything you want to keep an eye on, pin it to your home screen as a widget. He comes with the Connected plan, and he’s part of the Paragon update too.
No. You get Connected free for the first 12 months. After that you pick, and dosing never stops on any plan.
Core, $0. Doses, waters, local screen, fault alarms. For good. Up to 10 devices.
Connected, $199/mo. Adds the cloud, history, remote control, phone alarms, pH & EC, room sensors and Hydros, the built-in assistant. 20 devices included, then $25/mo each.
Pro, $499/mo. Adds API and data export, automatic updates and phone support. 40 devices included, then $18/mo each.
We count pumps and sensors, not rooms. Your first scale doesn’t count as a device. Compare the plans →