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I posted this on ICmag but im too impatient haha

Hey all, iv'e been planning on purchasing a cabinet that i can fabricate to house anything thats vegging and a seperate flower box. I want to light the vegg area with flouros to save some space and money. I actually have everything planned out i just do not know where to add any fans or vents. Id like to run the least amount of fans. 120mm would be ideal. I also plan on mounting a vent on the backside (ac/heater vent)
Can someone tell me if i have the hood/ducting/fan/filter right? If i have the fan sucking in the hot air from the hood (with no glass) would it also suck in all the stinky air from the flower box and pass through the filter?
I dont plan on running a top shelf anymore, i can mount my stuff to the top of the box. So please feel free to go ahead and edit my plans to suit proper needs. Thanks!

I'd say a 120mm fan pushing 150-200cfm would work for your entire box you have there, as long as the light for flowering doesn't get too hot (up to a 250watt hps). draw the hot air thru the filter and put a vent into the veg room (you might want to put some black tubes so no light escapes) where the air can be drawn in. get a small carbon filter because it will cause back pressure on your fan. But one well-placed fan should do it.
good luck!

VaporBros said:

I posted this on ICmag but im too impatient haha

Hey all, iv'e been planning on purchasing a cabinet that i can fabricate to house anything thats vegging and a seperate flower box. I want to light the vegg area with flouros to save some space and money. I actually have everything planned out i just do not know where to add any fans or vents. Id like to run the least amount of fans. 120mm would be ideal. I also plan on mounting a vent on the backside (ac/heater vent)
Can someone tell me if i have the hood/ducting/fan/filter right? If i have the fan sucking in the hot air from the hood (with no glass) would it also suck in all the stinky air from the flower box and pass through the filter?
I dont plan on running a top shelf anymore, i can mount my stuff to the top of the box. So please feel free to go ahead and edit my plans to suit proper needs. Thanks!

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OMG DUDE! You sound like me! I have a 5 day dead line and I am clueless to where I should start drilling holes. I just recently put one of my shelves in to the highest level so that I could put my ballast and cords and all that up there like in your diagram. Mines will be 400w cool tube cab in my closet. Hey, I'll add your diagram to my diagram folder. Its just a collection of things I saw on this site and others that I collected. Heres my cab though! Painted the walls flat white opposed to using mylar.

COGOGROW said:

I'd say a 120mm fan pushing 150-200cfm would work for your entire box you have there, as long as the light for flowering doesn't get too hot (up to a 250watt hps). draw the hot air thru the filter and put a vent into the veg room (you might want to put some black tubes so no light escapes) where the air can be drawn in. get a small carbon filter because it will cause back pressure on your fan. But one well-placed fan should do it.
good luck!

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You sound like you know what the hell you are talking about! I'M CLUELESS!

well inlet vents on the bottom.. depending on what your running for light determines what youll use for fans and how many... i'd use 2 exhust fans on the top going through the filter... the one hooked up to the light will help also.. and yes it will take out heat and smell at the same time but hps lights tend to make alot more heat then people expect... so i'd hook up 2 exhust fans.. if you want to you could have a few passive intake vents on the bottomside of you flower chamber.. then have a couple exhaust fans to pull air through the filter.. and then you only need a passive intake vent and an exhaut fan in you veg chamber.. have the exhaust going into the flowering chamber from the veg.. so that way everything goes through the filter and you have 0 smell.. the passive intakes save on using fans becaue it uses negative pressure to circulate air through the rooms

BAH. i had two whole paragraphs written out responding to you guys and talking about my new plans. Instead im just going to post the pictures of my new cab plans. Pretty self explanatory. Tell me what ya think!

looks perfect to me

Change the hood to a cooltube!