Quote Originally Posted by painretreat
:greenthumb:Your sharing will surely help a lot of n00b's here! Thanks for sharing! Just love it! Shows a lot of $, eyebrow sweat and rewards!! Rocs! :rastar
Thank you painretreat. I do hope it does help somebody.
I would not recommend 1000 watt lights for a beginner. I still don't have the 1000 watters fully mastered yet. I would recommend 400 watt or at the most 600 watt for a beginner.

As for the high cost, I purchased the highest quality equipment I could find for safety reasons. That is a lot of wattage and heat in a small area. In a closet like this it could be dangerous to use lower quality equipment in my opinion. It took me about a year of saving and a lot of work to get this closet put together. It went up piece by piece over a year span. Now that I have been running the closet for nearly two years, it has paid for itself and has helped many patients.

I would also like to mention about the air exchange fan for the closet. The air exchange fan can offer an additional safety benefit.

Without using an air exchange fan for this type of flower closet: Let's say a fire broke out for some reason, where would I put the smoke alarm? In the flower closet I probably will not hear it, due to fan noise and the closet being sealed shut. I won't smell any smoke, all the smoke will be pumping right out of the house through the ventilation fans. If I put a smoke alarm inside the main room, it would not even get triggered off due to no smoke returning to the main room.

With an air exchange fan in this type of flower closet: Let's say a fire broke out for some reason. At least half of the air flow of the closet would be pumping smoke back into the main room, where the smoke detector should be placed. The smoke going into the main room would trigger off the smoke detector and I would be able to hear the smoke detector go off and I would probably be able to smell the smoke also.

I will always utilize an air exchange fan for any flower closet I build from now on.

My old closet was very similar and I was running (2) 400 Watt lamps, but built with make-shift parts. More so due to the fact that "growing underground" was the only way then (before the law went in to effect in MI). Wasn't too keen on visiting sites or stores.