I am tired of emptying drip pans every day too. The plants don't like it either. I dropped one. My grows live on wire shelves hung by ropes, so I'm working on a runoff catchment that attaches to the shelf. First try is a piece of fiber-reinforced vinyl fabric (salvaged from a billboard) hung under the shelf and sloped toward a bucket:
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If i need to lower my shelf I could rout the runoff to the condensate removal pump under my dehumidifier drain (it's only 5" high). I have these on order to hook up a drain hose to the fabric trough:
If I get more lazy, I could probably figure out a drip irrigation system, but hand watering is not bad with only 6 plants (for NY legal).