Newest Setup! 1 of 4 rooms

Evening Everyone,

Setting up my new operation and we are almost live. This is one of three flower rooms i'm running. Full closed loop system with adjust a wing 1000 waters. Sitting at 60 watts per square foot with a fixed height of around 8 foot on the ceiling. Fire foamed and aluminum taped all the poly walls shut so nothing gets in or out. Mini splits run off of my iPhone or a master controller to stabilize the temp (75-78F) along with the dehumidifiers. Plumbed the 3000lb CO2 tank into each room which will allow a 1200-1500ppm concentration to fill in about 5 minutes. Only my second setup, still have lots to do but will post some updates shortly.

Cheers!

there is 60,000w in that room?

Yes sir...

s10erwin said:

Yes sir...

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God bless you

Does that door have to be inswing?

- Jiji

That's a nice setup I wish I could have that much lighting how many plants are you going to run in there and how much cooling and do you have a ballast running to each one or how is it setup?

Holy batshit catman!

Jiji-
It is my only inswing door and currently the only thing I hate about my setup. Its next to adjoining rooms and has to be like that in order to keep the landlord happy about a fire escape in case of emergency.

Ryan-
I mounted all the ballasts on wooden boards with heat flashing in the attic. Labeled all of them for easy replacement if need be. Grouped the ballasts in sets of four to the plugs. Used 2 inch pvc threaded couplers in helping maintain a clean look and foam filled the holes from above in which i run the 220 cords through. In the attic space, I'm running 10,000 cfm gable fans to draw out the heat generated from the 180+ ballasts which are mounted on the previously mentioned boards.

That is awesome. Really wish I had the. However I do not think I want that electric bill. Hope you update when everything is growing. Wanna see it all in action.

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How many plants and what genetics are in the plan?

I will be running my flowering plants in seven gallon smart pots with Botanicare coco-gro. A mix of strong phenos that I have been collecting the last year and a half. A strong chemdog, some gage green group and exotic genetix. I want a dank smelling frost farm that brings smiles to many!

Cheers

s10erwin said:

I want a dank smelling frost farm that brings smiles to many!
Cheers

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I think you'll have that

s10erwin said:

Evening Everyone,

Setting up my new operation and we are almost live. This is one of three flower rooms i'm running. Full closed loop system with adjust a wing 1000 waters. Sitting at 60 watts per square foot with a fixed height of around 8 foot on the ceiling. Fire foamed and aluminum taped all the poly walls shut so nothing gets in or out. Mini splits run off of my iPhone or a master controller to stabilize the temp (75-78F) along with the dehumidifiers. Plumbed the 3000lb CO2 tank into each room which will allow a 1200-1500ppm concentration to fill in about 5 minutes. Only my second setup, still have lots to do but will post some updates shortly.

Cheers!

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I literally got wet looking at this... wow...

That sir is how it's done

That room almost made my throw up when I saw how much money you're going to waste.
http://www.inda-gro.com/IndaGroShop/energy-savings-lighting-and-controls/pro-420-par-20.html
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http://www.hydrogalaxy.com/growing-lights/lighting-accessories/light-rail-3-5-complete-10-rpm-kit/
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Better yields and better bud.

Damn thats a pretty room....

I wish I had the kinda money required to throw it around like that...

Why wings n not closed vented hoods? (Or half as many bare bulbs vert....)

Just seems like it'd be a bitch to keep cool like that... GREAT lighting..... but damn the heat....

MattDash-
Totally feel you on the power consumption and we are already in the works for more efficient upgrades with a rebate system from the power company. The toughest issue with a large grow is the startup. For me to be able to cover as much square feet in my grow with energy efficient lighting would be astronomical up front versus the 9 thousand dollar utility bill a month. We are running a side by side test with kind led's, lush led's, rocket plasma, and sunlight led's system in hopes of finding alternatives.

Flagg-
The adjust a wings throw a large amount of coverage out in prevention of dead spots in the room. With enough watts per square foot off of a calculation, I can keep the lights at a fixed height and get great production in any location within the room. Most open hid lighting systems average about 3,000btu's of heat buildup when warm. Calculated needing enough btu's of A/C to maintain the room along with some buffer for the hot/cold days outside the building. I would need miles of ducting and inline fans if I were to run an open looped system, not to mention the ducting holes would have to be plumbed on the outside of the grow room walls which is near other rooms.

s10erwin said:

MattDash-
Totally feel you on the power consumption and we are already in the works for more efficient upgrades with a rebate system from the power company. The toughest issue with a large grow is the startup. For me to be able to cover as much square feet in my grow with energy efficient lighting would be astronomical up front versus the 9 thousand dollar utility bill a month. We are running a side by side test with kind led's, lush led's, rocket plasma, and sunlight led's system in hopes of finding alternatives.
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You also have to take into consideration bulb effective life, My suggestion with heart felt concern. Remove 1/3 of the lights keep as replacements and get movers. Do the research, movers are way way way worth it. In all reality you could drop half the lights and use full room length channels and move all three rows of light at the same time in alternating directions so the light cover is constant and intense. movers also make it so you can be closer to the plants do to the movement of the heat source. Use of larger fans on the end of the room to push heat will help as well not just using the side wall house fans.
You spent a lot of money and your going to hemorrhage it even more every month, as you said a 9k light bill. To me this is absurd. With love, its your own fault. For the best yields using HID you should also have 1/3 of your active lights as MH. This, I thought was common knowledge, as it seems every pro grow has it set up like that.

Rocket plasma's getting my attention as well. Intensity and canopy pen is an issue with bigger plants. How ever the the advantages are pretty big. Cost is another..
Led's I have to say one of the best I have found information on is a $130 ufo- however it also has larger counterparts that carry the same spectrums with greater intensity ofc. but it is not listed in your list, frankly sunlight is the only one I have even seen before, BLu is kicken some ass on high out put's and Apollo is taking the cake on spectrum's I'd have to research the random one's you have in testing. I havent got the time for all that as I am setting up and managing 2 different grows as of this weekend.

If you want some old school pro tips that you don't see on this forum pm me I have just scratched the surface, LARGE grows are something I have been studying for years but have not had the opportunity to be part of yet.

so far the best LED's I have found 650 beats the 660 over clocked hps.
I cant find a lot of grow info on the sunlight sl-400

Geezus. Are you hiring?

I'm trying to wrap my head around a 9K monthly power bill. Would really enjoy frequent updates from you if possible. How many weekly man hours will this take to manage?