Fractus
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Ok this is my current project, and I'm seeking advice from anyone and everyone who might be able to shed some light on my design. I was aiming for inexpensive, small, and effective - something that can be in an apartment building! This is what I have come up with:
The container I decided to go with - A styrofoam cooler, air tight, spacious, easy to work with, inexpensive, and already white!
The red squares are where I intend to install my fans. Later on, when I need it I want to install a carbon filter on my exhaust fan.
The black circles are where those light fixtures are going to be mounted horizontally, I think all of the lights together will give an even and adequate light distribution for my plant.
The lights consist of 2 pairs of soft white CFL's, 1600 lumens/23 watts (=100 watt incandescent)
The cover to the box - that is a 3300 lumen soft white CFL @ 55 watts (= 150 watt incandescent). I plan to have this mounted in such a way that I can adjust the height of it to sit just over the plant at all time. (And when the plant is too high, I have an extra cooler, and will set one bottom piece inverted on top of the other and remount my dome light)
All advice & criticism is welcome, I'm a newb![Very Happy :D :D](/styles/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
The container I decided to go with - A styrofoam cooler, air tight, spacious, easy to work with, inexpensive, and already white!
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The red squares are where I intend to install my fans. Later on, when I need it I want to install a carbon filter on my exhaust fan.
The black circles are where those light fixtures are going to be mounted horizontally, I think all of the lights together will give an even and adequate light distribution for my plant.
The lights consist of 2 pairs of soft white CFL's, 1600 lumens/23 watts (=100 watt incandescent)
![](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollitup.org%2Fmembers%2Ffractus-152021-albums-growbox-picture840414-red-squares-where-i-intend.jpg&hash=85b28fb060dc3e7a216cd0c2e3937414)
The cover to the box - that is a 3300 lumen soft white CFL @ 55 watts (= 150 watt incandescent). I plan to have this mounted in such a way that I can adjust the height of it to sit just over the plant at all time. (And when the plant is too high, I have an extra cooler, and will set one bottom piece inverted on top of the other and remount my dome light)
![](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rollitup.org%2Fmembers%2Ffractus-152021-albums-growbox-picture840416-cover-box-3300-lumen-soft.jpg&hash=b1a3df7b2928654e535f76d3a0444f85)
All advice & criticism is welcome, I'm a newb
![Very Happy :D :D](/styles/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)