Vertical light closet setup

[oldblue]

Hey all, i recently redid my closet and instead of having a 2x5x5 grow area, with an air cooled 400hps, i redid it into a vertical light setup closet.The specs are about 5x4x6, and its more of a corner cabinet now. I built the one side out a few more ft. I setup my 400mh vertically in the middle, sitting on top of my carbon filter, exhausting right above it thru the attic, via a 440cfm vortex. Im a dwc 5 gal bucket hydro guy, so i have the light surrounded by 5 buckets now, and may up it to 7, after i find out sex and take sum clones. So, my question is, how many watt light is best for that size cab, being its vertical??? i take it the standard sq ft method doesnt really go in this setup. As i said, right now, i have my 400mh in there veggin away, but i also have access to a 1000 watter. With the 400, the temps stay around 78, 6" from the light. I dont know if i need to up it to the 1000 or maybe even stack the 1000 on top of the 400. Any advice would be appreciated, guys. Thanks.

[SauceeMcGee]

I'm not quite sure if this is correct but I think a lot of people here shoot for at least 50,000 lumens per sq. meter. I might be wrong on that. I'd wait for a confirmation on that.

[oldblue]

I'm not quite sure if this is correct but I think a lot of people here shoot for at least 50,000 lumens per sq. meter. I might be wrong on that. I'd wait for a confirmation on that.

I realise that 5000 lumens per sq ft is the norm to shoot for, but how do u measure when using an odd shaped (pretty much triangular) area, with a cool tubed vertical light. The light is shining 360*, so i'm guessing u cant use the same guidelines.

[SauceeMcGee]

Find the area of a rectangle and divide it by half and there you go! Is it a 45x45x90 triangle? Or more isosceles? If it's isosceles you have to get a bit more fancy with your math

[oldblue]

Find the area of a rectangle and divide it by half and there you go! Is it a 45x45x90 triangle? Or more isosceles? If it's isosceles you have to get a bit more fancy with your math

LOL! I understand how to figure out the sq ft of a triangular room. The thing is, i'm not using the light horizontally, so the sq ft dont matter in this situation. My question is, since i hung it VERTICALLY, do i still use the sq ft method, and just figure out the sq ft of all the walls or something like that?

[oldblue]

Ok, so here's what was decided to go with. I'm going to keep my 400w in there, and buy a 600 to stack inline on top of it, for a total of 1000 vertical watts. The plants will have appr 1' in between them and the lights. On each 5 gal bucket, i'm going to make a vertical scrog. So, each plant will grow up the screen flat, and i'm gonna turn each 1 180* everyday, to form nice buddage on both sides of the screen. I'm gonna take sum pix once i get the whole thing finished and start a growlog. This may get interesting.