Quote Originally Posted by Garden Knowm
HEY GROWER!!

thanks for the pictures.. this looks like it will be fun...

is there anything stopping the plants from growing into the lights...?

is there a glass barrier or something...?

how does the producer deal with HEAT?

thats a lot of watts for such a small area

THANKS again!!

iloveyou
Hi Garden Knowm,

Thanks for the kind words. Their is a glass barrier on both lights that effectively seperates the lights and ballast from the grow chamber area. Those lights and ballast are then cooled by two fans one blowing in and one blowing out.

Also the grow chamber area is also cooled by two fans. One blowing in and one blowing out. You can see them in the overview photos. Although they are relatively small fans they keep the grow chamber at about 85-90 degrees fahrenheit. Althought this is just a guess as I don't have a thermometer. My ambient temp arround my city is 75-85 most of the year.

I am pretty happy with how well it is handling heat considering the whole unit is just sitting inside a non ventilated garage. I think I could probably keep it about 5 degrees cooler if I were to add some fans to my garage that blow air out a small vent on the bottom of the wall.

Thanks,

GrowerXLT