slump
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I've been lurking on the forums for a bit now... soaking up as much information as possible and have finally decided to start on my first room(s). I'm looking for any input/ideas as I put these room(s) together.
I have 2 rooms available to me but due to budget restrictions (wifey) I have decided to veg and flower in 1 room first and then later expand the vegging to the second room.
The room I have started on first is approx 12 x 12 x 7.5
So far I have:
48" CoolTube
2 x 1000w 240v Lumatek Ballasts
2 x Hortilux 1000w HPS Bulbs
LightRail 5
Fearless Gardner 4x8 Air Table
Can-Air 100 38 Special carbon filter
HydroFarm 12,000 BTU a/c unit
I also have all of the other goodies such as Mylar, Timers, PH/PPM Tester, ducting, etc. I'm ready to roll and have just began to construct the first room.
I don't have pictures right at this moment of our original main panel for the house. My electrician almost shit himself when he opened the cubby hole that it is in. Basically the entire house was wired on 3 circuits. 16g wire was hooked to 30a breakers and the entire thing was a mess. 9/10 busts in this area come from house fires due to bad electrical. He wouldn't even think about the rooms before we put a new main in.
After he reworked the entire main panel outside, I had him drop a 60a sub panel in the flowering room along with an Intermatic EH40 timer which will control the circuit that both ballasts will be on. We'll be using a total of 30a for the flowering room and legging another 30a sub panel (with another EH40) off to the vegging room.
I have started the exhausting as well. For the CoolTube I have an S&P 8" 593cfm. It will be pulling air from the next room over, traveling through the tube and dumping into another room on the opposite side. My old lady is really concerned about smell leaking out so she made sure I sealed the living hell out of every cut I made in the walls. I also added outlets on the ceilings to cut down on cord mess from the inline fans. This is spot for the new air in.
In the next photo I got kinda crazy on the foam sealer! Oh well...Mylar will cover up the ugly This exhaust is going to be coming off of the Can-Filter with another 8" S&P. This vents into a space behind the wall and then directly outside.
One immediate question I have is about my A/C. Do you think it'd be ok to just Y the intake for the light cooling and attach it to the intake for the A/C and to Y the Can-Filter exhaust and have the A/C exhausting through the same ducting?
If not I'll just create separate intake/exhaust for the A/C unit. I've started on the exhaust for the lighting and will have the electrical finished up this weekend (if my sparky can make it out!)
The following pictures are of the future vegging room which is about 10 x 14 x 7.5. I love the idea of using that closet for mothering/cloning with a CFL setup in there. We will be using an identical setup for vegging with MH bulbs.
Any questions or input would be excellent! I'm going to continue working on the first room this weekend and will post pics as I progress. This is quite the interesting journey that I have began and I'm really excited about the entire project.
Thanks a ton for all the ideas and information RIU!
I have 2 rooms available to me but due to budget restrictions (wifey) I have decided to veg and flower in 1 room first and then later expand the vegging to the second room.
The room I have started on first is approx 12 x 12 x 7.5
So far I have:
48" CoolTube
2 x 1000w 240v Lumatek Ballasts
2 x Hortilux 1000w HPS Bulbs
LightRail 5
Fearless Gardner 4x8 Air Table
Can-Air 100 38 Special carbon filter
HydroFarm 12,000 BTU a/c unit
I also have all of the other goodies such as Mylar, Timers, PH/PPM Tester, ducting, etc. I'm ready to roll and have just began to construct the first room.
I don't have pictures right at this moment of our original main panel for the house. My electrician almost shit himself when he opened the cubby hole that it is in. Basically the entire house was wired on 3 circuits. 16g wire was hooked to 30a breakers and the entire thing was a mess. 9/10 busts in this area come from house fires due to bad electrical. He wouldn't even think about the rooms before we put a new main in.
After he reworked the entire main panel outside, I had him drop a 60a sub panel in the flowering room along with an Intermatic EH40 timer which will control the circuit that both ballasts will be on. We'll be using a total of 30a for the flowering room and legging another 30a sub panel (with another EH40) off to the vegging room.
I have started the exhausting as well. For the CoolTube I have an S&P 8" 593cfm. It will be pulling air from the next room over, traveling through the tube and dumping into another room on the opposite side. My old lady is really concerned about smell leaking out so she made sure I sealed the living hell out of every cut I made in the walls. I also added outlets on the ceilings to cut down on cord mess from the inline fans. This is spot for the new air in.
In the next photo I got kinda crazy on the foam sealer! Oh well...Mylar will cover up the ugly This exhaust is going to be coming off of the Can-Filter with another 8" S&P. This vents into a space behind the wall and then directly outside.
One immediate question I have is about my A/C. Do you think it'd be ok to just Y the intake for the light cooling and attach it to the intake for the A/C and to Y the Can-Filter exhaust and have the A/C exhausting through the same ducting?
If not I'll just create separate intake/exhaust for the A/C unit. I've started on the exhaust for the lighting and will have the electrical finished up this weekend (if my sparky can make it out!)
The following pictures are of the future vegging room which is about 10 x 14 x 7.5. I love the idea of using that closet for mothering/cloning with a CFL setup in there. We will be using an identical setup for vegging with MH bulbs.
Any questions or input would be excellent! I'm going to continue working on the first room this weekend and will post pics as I progress. This is quite the interesting journey that I have began and I'm really excited about the entire project.
Thanks a ton for all the ideas and information RIU!