DIY-HP-LED
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Grow room air to water cooling conversion project
Harvest is hanging in the grow and the lights are off, turned the carbon filter up and opened the valve on the rad to warm it up a bit. The girls finished a week early because of growing conditions and high light levels, and the modular tube light I was gonna put in a frame over them a bit late. So a shift in priorities and a change in plan is in order, a bit of flexibility at this point I should think. Tomorrow the shop gets cleaned up and reorganized along with the rest of the disorganized disaster I call a basement, I figure the day is shot just getting me to the start line!
Then perhaps I can throw a couple of tubes on the bench and get to work drilling 1/2" holes, tapping fittings, plugging ends and hydrostatically testing them to 1 ATM. I'm going to prepare and test four tubes, two 24" x 3" 1" and two 60" x 3" x1" rectangular light bar tubes for 2 different water cooled light rigs. The 24" tubes will be for converting an existing 500 watt air cooled monster to water cooling and the longer 60" tubes will combined with the six 1" x 18" modules, covered earlier, into a large 60" x 24" water cooled light rig designed to cover my grow table. The new rig is composed of new and recycled drivers and LEDs, the 100 watt air cooled fixtures that are no longer needed will be stripped of useable items.
After the basement is cleaned, the shop reorganized and the bud dry, I'm stripping out the flower room doing some painting and other work, I might not make my side lights adjustable for height this grow, but should get it done next. I've got two air cooled light bars with 10 watt LEDs mounted on the walls for side/top lighting. I don't think I'll convert them to water, because they work ok now and I'm gonna need some heat in the room and since the short one runs at 100 watts and the longer one at 150 watts, they should help to keep the grow warm enough. Maybe I'll take some pictures of them and give enough of a description, that someone else who likes the idea could build their own.
Wait a minute, I'm suppose to be retired, you know, that state of existence between work and death. Well I ain't dead yet, and I plan on building more lights, growing more bud and getting as much of that free retirement money as I can! But I guess ya work until ya die anyway, I know that when ya stop learning ya might as well be dead.
Harvest is hanging in the grow and the lights are off, turned the carbon filter up and opened the valve on the rad to warm it up a bit. The girls finished a week early because of growing conditions and high light levels, and the modular tube light I was gonna put in a frame over them a bit late. So a shift in priorities and a change in plan is in order, a bit of flexibility at this point I should think. Tomorrow the shop gets cleaned up and reorganized along with the rest of the disorganized disaster I call a basement, I figure the day is shot just getting me to the start line!
Then perhaps I can throw a couple of tubes on the bench and get to work drilling 1/2" holes, tapping fittings, plugging ends and hydrostatically testing them to 1 ATM. I'm going to prepare and test four tubes, two 24" x 3" 1" and two 60" x 3" x1" rectangular light bar tubes for 2 different water cooled light rigs. The 24" tubes will be for converting an existing 500 watt air cooled monster to water cooling and the longer 60" tubes will combined with the six 1" x 18" modules, covered earlier, into a large 60" x 24" water cooled light rig designed to cover my grow table. The new rig is composed of new and recycled drivers and LEDs, the 100 watt air cooled fixtures that are no longer needed will be stripped of useable items.
After the basement is cleaned, the shop reorganized and the bud dry, I'm stripping out the flower room doing some painting and other work, I might not make my side lights adjustable for height this grow, but should get it done next. I've got two air cooled light bars with 10 watt LEDs mounted on the walls for side/top lighting. I don't think I'll convert them to water, because they work ok now and I'm gonna need some heat in the room and since the short one runs at 100 watts and the longer one at 150 watts, they should help to keep the grow warm enough. Maybe I'll take some pictures of them and give enough of a description, that someone else who likes the idea could build their own.
Wait a minute, I'm suppose to be retired, you know, that state of existence between work and death. Well I ain't dead yet, and I plan on building more lights, growing more bud and getting as much of that free retirement money as I can! But I guess ya work until ya die anyway, I know that when ya stop learning ya might as well be dead.
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