VancouverMover
Active Member
Ok so after a dry run from random seeds ive learned alot and am ready to start a fully legit operational sog hydro setup.
I'll start with the flowering "closet".
Dimensions : 6ft wide by 2 ft deep by 6ft high. Originally a 400 w MH with attatched balast and no hood was used for flower with a now broken 3 by 4 ft tb fluor that worked great for veg. The reason for the less then ideal lights were they were free and this was a first grow. Now with a small harvest of decent herb its aparent that a few changes need to be made with this room. First off it will be a flower only as additional closets are being set up for veg. Next it will have an hps with an air coolable hood and detatched balast. We had terrible heat problems with the last light so i am now very paranoid about temps. This is making me lean to 400 w hps with one of those air coolable euro hoods htg has. But i really wany dense bud and have been told 1 600w wouldnt be that much warmer then the 400 w. IS this true? Do you think with about 72 cubic feet to deal with can my room handle a cooled 600 w? IF so how much cfm should i look for in my fan. right now the 6" inline duct fans that do abut 250 cfm look good to me. i would guess at least 2 for cooling a 600 w. So i guess the question still is 600 or 400 with 2 250 cfm fans cooling an enclosed hood. Also would a cool tobe be better for controlling temps or should i feel comfortable using a trapazoidal type enclosed hood with ducting fittings on both ends?
Now for closet 2 (for veg)
This closet is 48" by 20 '' by 55"
I thought i had this one figured out but i guess not. The lighting i had was my nigger rigged cfl fixture that basically consisted of 4 26 w cfls screwed into these little sochets that just plug straight into a plug i then plugged the sockets into power strips. I had 3 strips each with 4 bulbs in 4 sockets. Ventilations consisted of a small modified 4" fan i found at wallmart that seems to be pretty powerfull (at least for a small room) that we conected to a foot of ducting outside the closet. Unfortunately after i got everything just how i wanted and ran the closet for a few hours i ran into high temps. 87 degrees then after i took out 2 bulbs only a 2 degree drop to 85. My experience with fluro tubes were that they emitted olmost no heat are cfls that different? What can i do to have a nicely lit veg closet should i go back to tubes? Is it my fixture that is causing the heat. I was thinking maybe could be like plugging 100 incadesent into low quality sockets can make them burn hot if only rated for 75 w. But i thought 26 w of energy was miniscule compared to what these sockets must have been built for (at least 60 w for a mediocre incadesent) Any ideas about how to cool my room down without losing much light would be apreciated. One idea i considered was trying to seperate my balast from fixture on my 400 w mh and trying to air cool that. Anyone ever tried this?is this space too small for a 400 w evein if air cooled?
My third closet is a simple clone starter with fluor tubes works great.
I'll start with the flowering "closet".
Dimensions : 6ft wide by 2 ft deep by 6ft high. Originally a 400 w MH with attatched balast and no hood was used for flower with a now broken 3 by 4 ft tb fluor that worked great for veg. The reason for the less then ideal lights were they were free and this was a first grow. Now with a small harvest of decent herb its aparent that a few changes need to be made with this room. First off it will be a flower only as additional closets are being set up for veg. Next it will have an hps with an air coolable hood and detatched balast. We had terrible heat problems with the last light so i am now very paranoid about temps. This is making me lean to 400 w hps with one of those air coolable euro hoods htg has. But i really wany dense bud and have been told 1 600w wouldnt be that much warmer then the 400 w. IS this true? Do you think with about 72 cubic feet to deal with can my room handle a cooled 600 w? IF so how much cfm should i look for in my fan. right now the 6" inline duct fans that do abut 250 cfm look good to me. i would guess at least 2 for cooling a 600 w. So i guess the question still is 600 or 400 with 2 250 cfm fans cooling an enclosed hood. Also would a cool tobe be better for controlling temps or should i feel comfortable using a trapazoidal type enclosed hood with ducting fittings on both ends?
Now for closet 2 (for veg)
This closet is 48" by 20 '' by 55"
I thought i had this one figured out but i guess not. The lighting i had was my nigger rigged cfl fixture that basically consisted of 4 26 w cfls screwed into these little sochets that just plug straight into a plug i then plugged the sockets into power strips. I had 3 strips each with 4 bulbs in 4 sockets. Ventilations consisted of a small modified 4" fan i found at wallmart that seems to be pretty powerfull (at least for a small room) that we conected to a foot of ducting outside the closet. Unfortunately after i got everything just how i wanted and ran the closet for a few hours i ran into high temps. 87 degrees then after i took out 2 bulbs only a 2 degree drop to 85. My experience with fluro tubes were that they emitted olmost no heat are cfls that different? What can i do to have a nicely lit veg closet should i go back to tubes? Is it my fixture that is causing the heat. I was thinking maybe could be like plugging 100 incadesent into low quality sockets can make them burn hot if only rated for 75 w. But i thought 26 w of energy was miniscule compared to what these sockets must have been built for (at least 60 w for a mediocre incadesent) Any ideas about how to cool my room down without losing much light would be apreciated. One idea i considered was trying to seperate my balast from fixture on my 400 w mh and trying to air cool that. Anyone ever tried this?is this space too small for a 400 w evein if air cooled?
My third closet is a simple clone starter with fluor tubes works great.