stingah
01-21-2007, 09:08 PM
Hello all,
I need help. I think I may need to completely overhaul my closet. Between getting sold at the hydro store and some questionably poor advice from a friend who 'knows all about growing', I think I've put together an pretty poorly engineered cabinet. I should have simply mimicked any of the great closets up on this forum, but alas, I'm a chump.
I'm absolutely willing to do whatever it takes to make this work, if that means to buy a new closet, build a new hood, fans, anything. I don't have any money to waste but I'll spend whatever is necessary. But I need help figuring out where to go from here.
I've already started 3 of my 12 seeds, which are now showing their first two faux-leaves so I need to do this fast. The seeds are NL x Blueberry.
Closet: I bought a 3 chamber closet from HD, 2 lower chambers for flower and veg, upper chamber to hold all the electrical, fans and filter. Dimensions are 48"w (lower areas are 23"w each"), 71"h (lower chambers are 47.5" and the upper is ~20") and 20"d.
Lights: I was sold a 400w hortilux w/ a convection (ie 'not really') cooled hood for veg and a 125w 'cfl' which looks like a giant version of standard cfls but with a garbage proprietary socket, looks like for an HID.
Vents: Heres where I got even more stupid, not fully understanding the fundamentals and with plenty of spare parts lying about my office, I thought these server 'muffin' fans would be adequate. They are 120mm 110 CFM running off 110v ( My little fans (http://www.alliedelec.com/Search/ProductDetail.asp?SKU=599-0190&SEARCH=&ID=&DESC=028422%2FMX2B3&R=599%2D0190&sid=45B2AD0065BCE17F) ). I have three total and two installed, each one pulling air from the lower chamber in to the upper chamber, where it exhausts passively (eventually) through a DIY carbon scrubber. In the floor of the veg chamber I put 6x 1" holes for passive inlets, which are drawing air from below the back of the closet where I removed the base board. If I turn on the veg fan with the door open, I feel a huge amount of air flowing out, but when I close the veg door it is probably less than 50% of the airflow I felt before...
(note: I also have a 10", 550 cfm fan available: My big unused fan (http://www.comairrotron.com/details_ac_family.asp?PartNumberID=29) )
Temperature: Unknown as the thermometer/hygrometer I got sold is also crap (the two probes are always about 15 degrees apart even when right next to each other). I'm taking it back in just a few minutes. But the floro doesn't seem to be very hot and even without running the fan it seems cool enough for my hand.
Medium: I have all bought and put together all the equipment for a 10 gallon DWC in both sides. And I was planning to use a scrog screen to keep the height down.
I'm open to absolutely any suggestions and I'll do whatever you all think is best to get this to work out. I really appreciate the help and wish I would have had you all critique this closet before starting but... well, I guess anybody new, anxious and impetuous might do the same.
Thanks,
Stingah
(Anybody know why I can't post a picture of it here?)
I need help. I think I may need to completely overhaul my closet. Between getting sold at the hydro store and some questionably poor advice from a friend who 'knows all about growing', I think I've put together an pretty poorly engineered cabinet. I should have simply mimicked any of the great closets up on this forum, but alas, I'm a chump.
I'm absolutely willing to do whatever it takes to make this work, if that means to buy a new closet, build a new hood, fans, anything. I don't have any money to waste but I'll spend whatever is necessary. But I need help figuring out where to go from here.
I've already started 3 of my 12 seeds, which are now showing their first two faux-leaves so I need to do this fast. The seeds are NL x Blueberry.
Closet: I bought a 3 chamber closet from HD, 2 lower chambers for flower and veg, upper chamber to hold all the electrical, fans and filter. Dimensions are 48"w (lower areas are 23"w each"), 71"h (lower chambers are 47.5" and the upper is ~20") and 20"d.
Lights: I was sold a 400w hortilux w/ a convection (ie 'not really') cooled hood for veg and a 125w 'cfl' which looks like a giant version of standard cfls but with a garbage proprietary socket, looks like for an HID.
Vents: Heres where I got even more stupid, not fully understanding the fundamentals and with plenty of spare parts lying about my office, I thought these server 'muffin' fans would be adequate. They are 120mm 110 CFM running off 110v ( My little fans (http://www.alliedelec.com/Search/ProductDetail.asp?SKU=599-0190&SEARCH=&ID=&DESC=028422%2FMX2B3&R=599%2D0190&sid=45B2AD0065BCE17F) ). I have three total and two installed, each one pulling air from the lower chamber in to the upper chamber, where it exhausts passively (eventually) through a DIY carbon scrubber. In the floor of the veg chamber I put 6x 1" holes for passive inlets, which are drawing air from below the back of the closet where I removed the base board. If I turn on the veg fan with the door open, I feel a huge amount of air flowing out, but when I close the veg door it is probably less than 50% of the airflow I felt before...
(note: I also have a 10", 550 cfm fan available: My big unused fan (http://www.comairrotron.com/details_ac_family.asp?PartNumberID=29) )
Temperature: Unknown as the thermometer/hygrometer I got sold is also crap (the two probes are always about 15 degrees apart even when right next to each other). I'm taking it back in just a few minutes. But the floro doesn't seem to be very hot and even without running the fan it seems cool enough for my hand.
Medium: I have all bought and put together all the equipment for a 10 gallon DWC in both sides. And I was planning to use a scrog screen to keep the height down.
I'm open to absolutely any suggestions and I'll do whatever you all think is best to get this to work out. I really appreciate the help and wish I would have had you all critique this closet before starting but... well, I guess anybody new, anxious and impetuous might do the same.
Thanks,
Stingah
(Anybody know why I can't post a picture of it here?)