Okay so I'm growing two Blue Mystics and one Northern Light, but they aren't the issue, however they are in danger....Kinda.... Just figured I'd throw that out there.
So anyway... Stealth CFL grow with supplemental leds. Box is only 14x14" square by 20" high with about 5" of usable but confined space below the actual cabinet. I was hoping to use 5- 65k cfls hung on one fixture by two chains. The lights are about 2" apart. 3 on one side and 2 on the other, mounted on like a 7x2" piece of wood. I have a pc fan mounted in the center of fixture, on top above the light sucking the air upwards. On the top backside of the cabinet going out I have a 6" inline duct booster fan, like 250 cfm advertised, going from the fan to a 6 to 4" reducer, then about 1.5' of 4" flex into a coupling made into a carbon "filter" AND THEN I have a 4" inline duct booster fan sucking the air out of the whole setup. And this is blown out into the room not back into the box.... My intakes are rather sloppy. I got ahead of myself and used what was available, which was a 1" paddle bit... needless to say, my box ended up a little swiss cheesed
But at the end of all of that I was sucking in some decent air and not blowing any out what so ever. I did the lighter test to all the holes and they passed...
My temps were through the roof. 100 degrees with only 3 cfls running. It is a little warm here so I might be able to drop my temps maybe 6 or 7 degrees if I rig up the ac for the room. But I like the fact that its an open room and we always have an exhaust fan blowing out one of the windows.
I don't know much about ventilation, this is the first time I had to rig something for smell. But the filter pulls with the carbon in it. Maybe the positioning of my intakes? I have 3 1" holes on the back bottom end. Then from the compartment beneath I have 3 1" holes towards the front floor and a bunch of smaller like 6mm holes drilled without the floor board.
Or could it be that I wired my lights directly into a plug and plugged them into the socket like temporary lighting you see with the yellow nets around them? I don't know if that would make them any hotter than using those plug in light sockets on a power strip.
This is extremely frustrating and I'm about to build a new bigger box. But once I get pics up you might understand why I like this setup. I just need to cool the damn thing down. I'm about to build a box around the cfls but I don't want to obstruct the leds too much, they are going directly onto the ceiling.
So anyway... Stealth CFL grow with supplemental leds. Box is only 14x14" square by 20" high with about 5" of usable but confined space below the actual cabinet. I was hoping to use 5- 65k cfls hung on one fixture by two chains. The lights are about 2" apart. 3 on one side and 2 on the other, mounted on like a 7x2" piece of wood. I have a pc fan mounted in the center of fixture, on top above the light sucking the air upwards. On the top backside of the cabinet going out I have a 6" inline duct booster fan, like 250 cfm advertised, going from the fan to a 6 to 4" reducer, then about 1.5' of 4" flex into a coupling made into a carbon "filter" AND THEN I have a 4" inline duct booster fan sucking the air out of the whole setup. And this is blown out into the room not back into the box.... My intakes are rather sloppy. I got ahead of myself and used what was available, which was a 1" paddle bit... needless to say, my box ended up a little swiss cheesed
But at the end of all of that I was sucking in some decent air and not blowing any out what so ever. I did the lighter test to all the holes and they passed...
My temps were through the roof. 100 degrees with only 3 cfls running. It is a little warm here so I might be able to drop my temps maybe 6 or 7 degrees if I rig up the ac for the room. But I like the fact that its an open room and we always have an exhaust fan blowing out one of the windows.
I don't know much about ventilation, this is the first time I had to rig something for smell. But the filter pulls with the carbon in it. Maybe the positioning of my intakes? I have 3 1" holes on the back bottom end. Then from the compartment beneath I have 3 1" holes towards the front floor and a bunch of smaller like 6mm holes drilled without the floor board.
Or could it be that I wired my lights directly into a plug and plugged them into the socket like temporary lighting you see with the yellow nets around them? I don't know if that would make them any hotter than using those plug in light sockets on a power strip.
This is extremely frustrating and I'm about to build a new bigger box. But once I get pics up you might understand why I like this setup. I just need to cool the damn thing down. I'm about to build a box around the cfls but I don't want to obstruct the leds too much, they are going directly onto the ceiling.
You might have changed the route of this grow my friend. Realistically I COULD build a bigger box and was already leaning towards it. I just like this because its in my den and its part of my computer desk.
