800th post, just hit STONER!!!... It is 6am here too... Night!!

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Construction underway, a bit of a snag, any ideas?

Wow.. Nice blueprint. Everything looks pretty sweet. About your filtration problem: I don't get it... Are you saying there's no room to mount your carbon filter on the outside of the box where your 4" duct comes out? Also, I missed how you would move the light fixture up/down?

Overall, this looks like a pretty dank set up. This is EXACTLY what I intend to do when I get my apartment.

Grow on!

Peace

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Thanks I had a bit of time on my hands before work. I'll make sure to show you the box when its all said and done, the front part of the filing cabinet is so priceless I can't wait to show it off.

Well, in a nut shell, the light reflectant I have for my box was originally from an industrial street light at my work. It was in our trash heap so I nicked it. It fits perfectly snug on the roof of the cabinet leaving maybe 3" of room from the back of the cabinet to the actual light reflector. I didn't pay attention to the lack of space since I was too excited making the reflector from scratch and have 8 CFLs coming out of it so its a bit too late to do some trimming. Originally, I had a 4" duct tubing I got from the local hardware store and was going to hook that up from the Light fixture exhaust, directly into the homemade filter, and at the end of the filter put an additional PC fan to push the pungent air outwards and stealthly.

A mate of mine found out about the operation and its cool. He said he swears putting some laundry dryer sheets screening the PC fan will suffice. But I'm not sure...

I guess I'm trying to figure out how I could make a filter INSIDE my box. The problem would be I have 2 holes drilled on bottom for air intake and (originally) one hole up top where the light exhaust ducting would be. I figure if I try putting more than one hole up top for individual filtration of smell I might throw off the air flow thus making some of the smell come out of the light fixture exhaust that doesn't have a filter hooked up to it.


Sorry about the very late entry by the way, I was out of town constructing my box. The friends have loads of tools. heh

Edit: Oh, and the pully/base to elevate the plants idea was thrown out the window. Putting pegs in is much easier.

Long time no post..... Good to see you comming along nicely.... Hope to see some pics soon!!!

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brux-good lookin plans. im workin on a similar setup...3ftlx18inwx5fth...not sure bout ur dimensions, but layout is abuot the same..are u startin out with cool white cfls for veggin.if so how many watts? im thinkn of usin 4 23w 2 22w and 2 15w to pump out bout 10-11k

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in lookn @ ur plans do you really find it necesaary to exhaust your lights or is this an xtra measure just b/c. i will be using fans for in and out but never thought to hood the cfls and vent fixture...ingenious!!

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Sorry I haven't been around to respond earlier six8, just been hectic. I haven't finished the box because of multiple problems. Mind you, I'll be sure to crack down with some pictures of the mechanics etc.

From the looks of it six8, I'll have 4 27w warm whites (2700k) and 4 (4100k) cool whites for vegetation. I thought I'd go ahead and try my first grow out by mixing up the spectrum a little bit. I didn't want to just throw in warms ya know so...we'll see how it turns out. If I can scrounge up some money when I'm flowering I'll probably switch out some of those cools for warm whites so I can focus more on the red spectrum.

As for the lights being exhausted, ya, its for extra measures. I'd love to try and keep the ideal temperature at the recommended dosage. The venting was brought up to be a little bit of a problem for my box. If you look at my doodle you'll see the ducting going straight back to the back of the box. Thats virtually only 2-3 inches of space so I don't have much room to work with when it comes to putting active carbon (DIY) filters together. But if worse case scenario, I'll probably throw in some car fresheners on the exhaust or some shit. Who knows.

Hope this wacky block of text helped ya get some answers answered. Feel free to ask anything thats within my knowledge bound bubble