Any helpful Tips on doing a stealth grow insisde a box in a 8x8 closet?

[mjisgood21]

My 150w HPS is coming tomorow.I been thinking about making a box to grow them in so more light will stay around the plants.Any good ideas on boxes that can handle the heat of HPS?I was tihnking about gfeting 2 of the bigest rubber made boxes,& geting a roll of velcro.Flip the top box over & seal them up with velcro.Then geting some small pvc peices.Make 2 parts in/out takes.Thinking about make each with 2-4 pvc pipes combined together for one coming out cause I was going to run 2-4 pc fans on each side(so 4-8 total).If I had 4 fans that ran at 12v each & soldered all 4,would they need 48v to run full power?And im going to make some homade carbon filters if I had it down in the pvc without alot of pressure would the fans still be able to move the air out good?

 

[mjisgood21]

Ok I did a quick draw if what I mean.Took about 2-3mins if you couldn't tell lmao.I may end up using 3 rubbermaids for more room.Hopefully it is good enough so you can get a beter idea of what I mean.Im in a hurry right now.Thats why I didn't take much time to draw it.

 

[pb2505]

man oh man - I take it that your not an art student or whatever, but hey I'll post up a pickie of my grow cab it should help you out - I'm just glad your not drawing things as a profession...............!!!

 

[mjisgood21]

Im going to say no to my idea now.I was suprised how big the bulb was,within 5 mins after it started up the closet got up to 100* almost.So I got a biger high velocity fan & it stays steady at 92*.This is without any mylar either.Never thought a 150w would put out this much heat.My room being were the sun sets hotest of the day doesn't help either.If I can can't get what I need soon,im holding off till late fall lol.

 

[pythagoras]

you could always go with a few cfls or tubes. they are way less heat. But I like the way you have the intake and outtake set up on your drawing.

 

[mjisgood21]

you could always go with a few cfls or tubes. they are way less heat. But I like the way you have the intake and outtake set up on your drawing.

Yeah,I been using cfls for awhile.Im tired of the slow growth from using them.I know"add more".But I thought what the hell.By the time I have enough cfls for one plant,I could get a HPS for 2 plants.But damn I didn't know a 150w could make a room this hot.At 7AM it was at 106*!Plants are already showing some heat stress.Damnit thought this HPS was going to be easy to use lol.I think Ill put it back in the box for a later time. Back to the ol cfls again
Its been 2 months & they still aren't any biger than my fist.Since I ran the HPS,1 day of growth from it is like almost 4-7 days from cfls.
Thanks,I thought 4 for the plants & 4 for the HPS would work well.I might end up trying it still idk.