Our new stealth cabinet!

[L3G10N]

Great cabinet man! Now build me one.

[Its a Plant]

How many plants are you growing in there? Looks SO nice with that stain, by the way. Top-notch work.

Hope the grow is going well! :thumbsup:

[AllInADaysWork]

WOW! :rasta: :thumbsup:

Would it be possible that you post a guide on creating this masterpiece to us?

I'd love to recreate it

[TxRooster97]

Thanks for the compliments! Hopefully we will get some new pics of the cabinet soon. We've been busy lately and haven't worked on it like we should, but, should be in full swing sometime soon. Hopefully we're gonna get 3-4 good size tomato plants in there. We have an 8" in-line fan pushing 500cfm's of fresh air. We have a 2' cool tube running a 600W HPS, so the temps shouldn't be a problem. Thanks again for all the compliments! New pics soon.....

Peace

Tha Rooster

[Sabron]

For the fan.. i whould get duel bladed window fans..they small and can be mounted on walls or mounted on a hole on top or bottom for good vent....

[jamstigator]

That's about the same size as my cabinet. I like the stain on yours better, but I bought my cabinet from Lowes and it is what it is. You can probably use a 600w bulb in there, but I don't think a 1k light would be a great idea, because I suspect you would have heat probs. Guess that mainly depends on the temperature of the air coming into your intakes though, so perhaps you could do it. I saw a guy on overgrow.com that used a 1k light in a box of roughly those dimensions, and he said he got the temps under control, but that it was rather a waste of electricity, since a 600w or even 400w light would have been sufficient for the area.

Here's a couple pics of how I set up my cabinet. Not saying it's the 'best way' or anything, by any means, but it has worked well for me. Those Doran 8"x8" darkroom louvres are the bomb. Carbon filter is on top, hidden behind the books and fire extinguisher, can't even see it.

[TxRooster97]

Sabron...thanks for the info on the fans!

Jams...we are going with the 600W Hortilux Eye Super HPS. I've read those are some kick ass lights. What are your thoughts?

As far as the pic of your cab goes...we have looked at it many times. Hell, I could probably write a paper on it! It's been our inspiration, thanks for posting it! And thanks a million to everyone that has responded and given us ideas and suggestions!

Peace imp:

Tha Rooster

[TokeNAway]

We are within a week (max) of being finished. :dance:

Worked on the cab two weekends ago and finished this weekend. Have a little bit of wiring left (exhaust fan and ballast), but that is all. Even did a light test (had to re-caulk one spot) and we're currently running a temp test.

Got pics that I'll post in a couple of days. Downloading them from my camera as I type this. Getting real close!

[TokeNAway]

Here some pics of the Intake and Exhaust vents.

We're going with a passive intake for now, but we made it so we could add an intake fan in the future if we decide we need it. Right now we have a small fan blowing at the intake grill and it seems to provide enought air-flow for the time being.
The bottom compartment is currently being used for storage. Plan to make it into a clone chamber sometime in the future. Just trying to get this thing to a state where we can get a grow going for now.

More pics of the inside to follow soon. :smokin:

[TokeNAway]

Here are the rest of the pics.

The ducting and cool-tube are 6" while the fan and filter are 8" with 6to8" reducers to connect the duct work.

Wish we would have gotten a pic of the in-line filter before we put it together. Rooster came up with the idea. We took some cuttable carbon filter sheets and secured some of them inside the reducers. Cut them to 8" so they won't blow out with the fan on. We can even add more carbon sheets (on the intake side) if needed.
Have not seen anyone try this before so we hope it will work for our needs. If we run into problems we'll let you all know.

The CFLs are not in the final locations in the pics. We just placed them in there to figure out where we wanted to mount things and do a light leak test. Thanks to Jamstigator for the idea based upon his pics. :thumbsup:
The final mounting (via hooks at the top of the cab) allows us to move them up and down and even pull the excess cord length out of the cab. We cut a hole in the top and used a gromet (plastic/rubber bottom for a chair leg) to create a gasket. No pic of it, sorry.

Did a 30 min temp test with the CFLs (about an inch under the lights) and max temp was 83 on the intake side and 86 on the other side (the right) during the hottest part of the day. Ran a room temp test over night and max/min was 86/73 so it looks like we are good. Have to do another test after we get the wiring finished and the 600W HPS bulb in, though.

Enjoy!