Start of my new grow cabinet.

snyder007

snyder007

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So I have upgraded my grow closet to a grow cabinet. I currently have 3 bagseed sprouts. My lighting arrangement is 4 2ft 75 watt floros, 4 75 watt 2600K CFLs, 4 100watt 6500k CFL's. My growing space is 5 ft tall, 3 ft deep and 3 ft wide. I hope to post some pictures here pretty soon. I gather that this should be enough light to get me all the way through flowering. Any opinions?
 
just a tip for future forum posts, when talking about cfl use actual wattage, ive found that more common. Im confused however as 43w are equivalent to more than 100w.

Anyway, lights should be ok, but might not. you may end up needing an extra one of each of the cfls, as those are your main source of usable light. This is although assuming that all 8 cfls are 23 watt. Also, as your plants get much bigger when flowering, you may wish to have even more of the 2600 as those are the best for flowering. Also, it is recomended by most experienced cfl growers to use a 40+ watt for your main top light and use 23, 26, w/e for all around the sides to give a good even lighting.

it would help if you include growing methods as well. hydro/soil, scrog? etc.
 
Soil. And I think your right. I picked up the 43w which is 120w equivalent i believe. The only problem I am encountering is keeping the temp constant. Right now I have 2 fans blowing in fresh air into the box but its still getting up in the 85-90 temp range which I feel maybe to high.
 
Try and get between 75-85. There is a DIY on a cooler/humidifier, but I don't know where it is. Look in the DIY section of the forums, not the growfaq. Try putting an intake/exhaust fans or add more intake and exhaust fans. That should work. And that's plenty of light to get you through flower. Have you ever seen Buds For less book?
 
I have heard about it. I have alot of E books that are helping me through my first grow as well as you guys.
 
I have some e-books too, but I prefer rollitup. :) Buds for less is a great book by seemorebuds. He posts on here. I think he posts as gardenknowm, at least that's how I understand it, but hey im stupid as hell. Haha. He comes out with 8 ounce under 6 cfls I believe it was. Could be more, but he had a great yield off of the bare minimum. As it says on the cover, "8 ounces of bud for less then $100"
 
So far so good i guess. Tomorrow I gotta pick up a dremel and start drilling exhaust ports in my box. Do you know how to run computer fans off a wall outlet or do I need to use a computer power supply. Probably easier to use the PSU right?
 
You can run them off of a 12V cellphone charger. I'll throw up a tutorial I found for you. This wasn't made by me, but it's what I'm going to use.

How to turn a PC fan into an exhaust or intake fan?

Contributed by: Flowerman
Images archived: 2001

Just for fun, I wanted to show how easy it is to turn a PC fan into an intake, or into an exhaust fan. The fan I am using is quite small, but the objective is still the same. The first step is to find or buy a 12v DC plug adapter. This fan here is rated at 80cfm, which will work for a small box set-up.

Here's is some info on the 12v DC adapter: (Model 420A4141)

Output (DC) 12.0V @ 500mA
Output Voltage VDC(1)
Input 108VAC
Output Volts @ 100% Load 10.20
Input 132VAC
Output Volts @ 100% Load 13.60
Input 132VAC
Output Volts @ 10% Load 17.40
UL(2) UL*
CSA(3) L
Plug(4) 1

Refer to picture 1.

Simply cut the wires at the end, and strip down about a ¼ inch of bare wire is showing.

If you don’t know which wire to wire up, for instance they’re all black wires, don’t worry, it will only work one way, and if wired wrong, will simply not work at all. But the idea is, black to black, red to red. This one here that I used, had one black and one red coming from the fan, and from the adapter, one black and one black and white. The black and white wire from the adapter got wired to the all black wire from the fan. And the all black wire from the adapter, gets wired to the all red wire from the fan.

To add another fan, just connect the wires of the same together. All black goes with black, all red goes with red. So you would still only use 2 connectors all together. Here’s a few more pictures. But for the most part, I just wanted to show how simple it is. Make sure you get an adapter which is rated DC for the output.

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Finished - Refer to picture 3.


Testing - Refer to picture 4.


Also a worthwhile consideration is places like radio shack and grainger also have nice 4" muffin fans that move as much as 200 cfm and more, which run on 110 vac. They come with a handy power cord that has a special connector on one end for the fan and a plug on the other end for plugging into the wall socket or humistat / thermostat.

Hope you enjoy man.
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