I live alone in my own house, i would like to be able to flower around 5 plant while veg 10.
I cant decide between building a LED cabinet from a ''office metal cabinet'' or build a rack with HPS.
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The Cabinet would be like this one with a CFL vegetative section on the bottom and a LED 200watt (Solar Flare California work) for the upper flowering section.
I don't want to use a HPS for a cabinet because im REALLY afraid of fire in case a fan fail and the cabinet turn itself in a oven.
The benefit would of using a cabinet
-Stealth, no need to restraint guess frown entering a specific room.
-Light control, no need to black out for the flowering night period
The con of using a cabinet
-Cost of building and Expensive LED fixture
-Unknown durability/performance of GROW LED
My other idea was to built (weld) a ''grow rack'', i cannot find an image of what i wanna do, but try to imagine a rack on wheel holding an HPS over the hydro back, and under it, will be a small enclosed CFL cabinet for the veg section so the CFL light wont affect the flowering night...
The benefit of using a rack
-Proved efficacy of HPS over LED
-Less expensive fixture and no need to ventilate
-Less expensive to build
The con of using a rack
-HPS use twice power as led
-HPS will heat my house in the winter but will add a load on my A/C this winter
-Maybe the smell... (I planned on adding Carbon filter on my central air handler (already run 24/24))
-Have to lock/restrain guess from entering a well lighted room (lol)
Help me chose!
I cant decide between building a LED cabinet from a ''office metal cabinet'' or build a rack with HPS.
View attachment 2401163
The Cabinet would be like this one with a CFL vegetative section on the bottom and a LED 200watt (Solar Flare California work) for the upper flowering section.
I don't want to use a HPS for a cabinet because im REALLY afraid of fire in case a fan fail and the cabinet turn itself in a oven.
The benefit would of using a cabinet
-Stealth, no need to restraint guess frown entering a specific room.
-Light control, no need to black out for the flowering night period
The con of using a cabinet
-Cost of building and Expensive LED fixture
-Unknown durability/performance of GROW LED
My other idea was to built (weld) a ''grow rack'', i cannot find an image of what i wanna do, but try to imagine a rack on wheel holding an HPS over the hydro back, and under it, will be a small enclosed CFL cabinet for the veg section so the CFL light wont affect the flowering night...
The benefit of using a rack
-Proved efficacy of HPS over LED
-Less expensive fixture and no need to ventilate
-Less expensive to build
The con of using a rack
-HPS use twice power as led
-HPS will heat my house in the winter but will add a load on my A/C this winter
-Maybe the smell... (I planned on adding Carbon filter on my central air handler (already run 24/24))
-Have to lock/restrain guess from entering a well lighted room (lol)
Help me chose!
