georgyboy
Active Member
What's up rollitup? I have been working hard on plans for my new grow set up and I want to run it by the community before I go bust open my wallet.I have a small extra room in my home and I decided it's time I start taking full advantage of it. I want to build a veg tent with flouro tubes and two flowering tents each with it's own 400W HPS. The flowering tents will be 3'x3' and will be 4' tall. I plan on using an air cooled reflector and setting it on top of the roof of the tent rather than hanging it inside the tent. I want to remove the glass from the reflector and vent the tent through the light. Each light will have a short run of 6" ducting that will lead to a box containing a carbon filter and 6" 435cfm fan. The fan will blow through another short piece of 6" duct and out the window. Each tent will have an 8" intake with a 300cfm duct fan and two 90* elbows to act as a light trap. The veg tent will also be in this room, and will be 4'6"x2' and will be 3' tall. There will be 3 - 4' 2 bulb 32W T8 shop lights hung close together for lighting. I am putting a 6" exhaust out of the top corner with a 160cfm duct fan on it. This air will simply be exhausted into the room. There will be an 8" passive intake with a 90* elbow to reduce light leakage. All tents will be built with 2"x2" pine and wrapped in 6.7mm thick mylar.
I hope these plans make sense to anyone who tries to read them. I am pretty confident in these plans but wanted some opinoins on a few aspects. For the light trap on the flowering intakes, will 2 elbows do the trick? Or should I use 8" ducting and wrap it in a loop instead? Also, I am exhausting the veg tent into the room as I don't expect it to generate much heat and I want the larger fan to focus it's power on the flowering tents. Is this okay or should I hook this exhaust up to the same box as the flowering tents. My most important question however, regards the 400W reflector. I know a mid-sized reflector will cast the appropriate light footprint for my small tent, but will a larger reflector be a better suit to my plans on exhausting all the air in the tent through the reflector. Here are the two reflectors I am looking at getting right now. Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this and help me out.
http://htgsupply.com/Product-EasyCool-6-Reflector.asp
http://htgsupply.com/Product-Big-Kahuna-Reflector.asp
Here's a rough sketch of the flowering tents I did on paint.
I hope these plans make sense to anyone who tries to read them. I am pretty confident in these plans but wanted some opinoins on a few aspects. For the light trap on the flowering intakes, will 2 elbows do the trick? Or should I use 8" ducting and wrap it in a loop instead? Also, I am exhausting the veg tent into the room as I don't expect it to generate much heat and I want the larger fan to focus it's power on the flowering tents. Is this okay or should I hook this exhaust up to the same box as the flowering tents. My most important question however, regards the 400W reflector. I know a mid-sized reflector will cast the appropriate light footprint for my small tent, but will a larger reflector be a better suit to my plans on exhausting all the air in the tent through the reflector. Here are the two reflectors I am looking at getting right now. Thanks to anyone who takes the time to read this and help me out.
http://htgsupply.com/Product-EasyCool-6-Reflector.asp
http://htgsupply.com/Product-Big-Kahuna-Reflector.asp
Here's a rough sketch of the flowering tents I did on paint.