mr.notsogreenthumb
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This was my first PC grow box build so I figured that it will be a good idea to post some pics and explain how it was done to help anyone who is interested in doing the same.
I started off with a few old broken Pentium 2 and 3 boxes that I managed to get from a friend for free. I picked one of the tallest ones and took out all the insides leaving you with a bunch of holes in the back, so I just looked at what fitted in each hole and broke that off of the mother bored and some of the other things that were attached to it. I did the same with the power supply, broke the back panel of and tossed the rest away. The CD-Rom and floppy drive are nothing more than the plastic shells that were broken off the front of the real deal. They come off real easily and with a bit of glue gunning they will look as authentic as can be hoped for. Then I added 4 fans to the box and wired them all to an old cell phone charger, the fans are all 12vots but the charger is only 5.1v but they all run fine (I got all the fans from inside the old PCs and had to replace two of them because for some reason the 5v charger just couldnt get them going). The fans wiring was simple, black wire to black wire and red wire to red wire. One of the fans was to far out so I had to extend its chords. This to was a piece of pie, I simply took a set of similar looking wires from the skeleton of one of the broken PCs and hooked it up without the fan loosing any of its power.
For the lights I took a piece of plank and screwed three light sockets onto it. I used normal twin flex wires to run from the light fixtures to a wall plug and connected all three of them to the same plug (each fixture with its own wire of course). Then to keep it looking like a real PC, I made a hole in the bottom of the case to let all the wires through while still being able to pull them back into the case for storage porpoises. Everything was done using a hammer, a screwdriver, a glue gun, some tape (to wrap around wires), and bits off of the old PCs.
I started germinating some Swazi Rooibaard yesterday for my pilot run, and with all forms of family members hanging around till the middle of January it will be the ultimate test of stealth.
P.S I decided not to add any more reflective stuff because its already plenty reflective as is.
I started off with a few old broken Pentium 2 and 3 boxes that I managed to get from a friend for free. I picked one of the tallest ones and took out all the insides leaving you with a bunch of holes in the back, so I just looked at what fitted in each hole and broke that off of the mother bored and some of the other things that were attached to it. I did the same with the power supply, broke the back panel of and tossed the rest away. The CD-Rom and floppy drive are nothing more than the plastic shells that were broken off the front of the real deal. They come off real easily and with a bit of glue gunning they will look as authentic as can be hoped for. Then I added 4 fans to the box and wired them all to an old cell phone charger, the fans are all 12vots but the charger is only 5.1v but they all run fine (I got all the fans from inside the old PCs and had to replace two of them because for some reason the 5v charger just couldnt get them going). The fans wiring was simple, black wire to black wire and red wire to red wire. One of the fans was to far out so I had to extend its chords. This to was a piece of pie, I simply took a set of similar looking wires from the skeleton of one of the broken PCs and hooked it up without the fan loosing any of its power.
For the lights I took a piece of plank and screwed three light sockets onto it. I used normal twin flex wires to run from the light fixtures to a wall plug and connected all three of them to the same plug (each fixture with its own wire of course). Then to keep it looking like a real PC, I made a hole in the bottom of the case to let all the wires through while still being able to pull them back into the case for storage porpoises. Everything was done using a hammer, a screwdriver, a glue gun, some tape (to wrap around wires), and bits off of the old PCs.
I started germinating some Swazi Rooibaard yesterday for my pilot run, and with all forms of family members hanging around till the middle of January it will be the ultimate test of stealth.
P.S I decided not to add any more reflective stuff because its already plenty reflective as is.
