Need Home-Made Reflector Ideas

[MrGreenFingaz]

Anyone have suggestions/comments to make one? I was thinking of maybe splitting pop cans open and lining some wood with it. I just wanna get a variety to see the best 1.

[GaGrown]

Yo Fingazzzzz! I made a hood that is gonna be vented with a 4 inch vent hole.Gonna take my cam and get sum pics for ya! That way you will be able to see what I've done.I'll upload them tonight for ya!

Ga Grown

[GaGrown]

This is for a 4 inch hole to use with a 400 HPS and a 265 cfm fan. Hope it helped! I ain't cut the hole for the vent or put the mogul mount on,yet! I'll show ya them when I get it done! Wednesday!


Ga Grown

[Legalizdahurb]

My friend made a Reflector out if an old side of a pc case, if i can find the thread i will give you a link.

[Legalizdahurb]

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=54796&highlight=homemade+reflector

[Legalizdahurb]

And
http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=62575

[cactusman23]

what kind of lights are you going to use

[cactusman23]

I read your other thread and If your gonna use a 400w hps, u need something a bit more sturdy than a few pop cans. With the heat the hps is gonna create your probly better off building a cool tube

[kiwiglowbug]

Step 1 look around and see what you have that you could utilise.
step2 use your imagination and maybe copy ones you have seen.

DO NOT USE WOOD or the smoke may not you high

[Legalizdahurb]

Ah yeah if ypu are going to use something like a 400watt hps then the links i posted might not take the heat, I dont want you burning ur place down.

[Zandor]

You do know for about 10-20 bucks you can get some sheet steel from Lowes or HD that is large enough to make 2 or 3 bat wings or one good closed hood. You do need to cut it and bend it but that is not hard if you think about it. You can bend it using 2x4's, some c-clamps and a dead blow hammer.

[MrGreenFingaz]

yo, thanks for the ideas, (that almost looks like a commercial one gagrown, good work :rasta:) And yes Zandor, i knew you could buy sheet metal, that sounds like a pretty good idea, cant you get home depot to cut it for you? THanks for the help boyz.

[Weed4Life]

I also need 2 reflectors for my 2 lights I have, I was thinking sheet metal and cutting it with sheet metal scissors and maybe reviting them together.
ZANDOR- lets just say I am 2-2 1/2wks into flowering and I find out I have sum females, can I throw the females back into Veg. stage without hurting them? Im asking because I will so be cloning.

[Zandor]

Yes but it will take them extra time to recover and the flowers that have started may still grow for a bit. They also are more prone to turning hermie if the temperature gets out of hand.

[Jdzzl03]

I made one out of some aluminum flashing that I got from home depot(roofing section). It come in all different lengths and widths. I ended up getting the 10" width and using two peices to make my reflector. It worked well but I think for my fall grow im just gonna buy a good reflector off ebay. Good luck bro-Diz:rasta:

[Weed4Life]

Thanks Zandor. I think for my reflector for my 400w hps I am going to build a cool tube or something like that.

[Jaxxxom]

I thought I'd post a link that you may or may not be interested in. Reciently, I had another project that required bending sheet metal. I know there's something called a bending break for such a purposed, so I did some googling and this is what I came up with.

About halfway down this page the author of this article shows how to bend sheet metal with a home made wooden bending break.

http://www.hadfield.ca/Gear/stove.html

Hope this helps!

Jaxxx

[Atom Bong]

For my next grow i was thinking of cutting coffee cans in half and leaving the whole circle on the bottom and cutting holes in the bottom for the light socket, then just covering the concave part of the coffee can in mylar to reflect lite better...think it would work?

[stinkyattic]

Personally I would not put the mylar that close to the heat source. Just for peace of mind. I've never tried to set it on fire but.....

You'd be better off either polishing the inside of the coffee can with nev-R-dull or painting it white.

If you decided to go that route. Even a big coffee can is still pretty small.

Guess it would be an appropriate size for cfls though. Maybe I'll try it for my seedlings!

[Weed4Life]

Hey Jaxxxom, that link wouldnt work. I am going to get sum sheetmetal this weekend and make a reflector for my 150 hps. Do you think 150 is good enough for 5 plants? I do have 2 400 hps' but I need to wire them still and make thier reflectors also.

[MrGreenFingaz]

yo whatup weed4life, are u talking just for veg or the whole thing? If your counting on having 2 or 3 females by the time its over id say it would be good ENOUGH, i grew 3 plants with around 120 watts flouros (NLXBB), anywayz 2 ended up female, i got around 2 oz off of em, made me happy, dankest shit ive ever smoked :rasta: So yea itd work, just dont expect as much bud as higher watts.

Oh yea just to tell you, i had 2 compact flouros hanging overhead, then i had one of those 33W tube flourescent lights to the side of one of the plants to light the lower buds, the thing i noticed was that the buds were NOTICABLY bigger on the side where the tube was, so yea every 33 watts count...