Best Lighting setup for DR60?

[willywonder]

Hi All - looking for some opinions on cool tube or reflector in the DR60 Tent.

Currently have 150HPS sunsystem all in one with ecoplus 4.5 axial computer looking exhaust fan 110 cfm and temps are good at 73-79 degrees. Passive intake in a cool room ambient temp about 65 deg

I have been racking brains out to make the right decision and hoping someone will respond with good advice.

Ideally i'd like to get a 400w dimmable ballast (in case it gets too hot dial down to 50%) Cool tube reflector 19"x6 or if someone knows of an AC hood that will fit with pics? Maybe a Blackstar 500 as well if it would work.

I just know i need more than 150 since i use to use a 430 in a open space for a few runs years ago.

Also, needing a carbon scrubber and inline fan as well.

Budget about 500-600 dollars.

Thanks in advance!

 

[touringfunkband]

Are you strapped for space that you can only use a DR60? Just saying that it's a pretty small tent and people have the tendency to want to go bigger rather quickly.

 

[willywonder]

Well for now I want to keep things small. I have house repairs being done, once that is complete i can move dr60 to veg fulltime. I have 2 female seeds C99 and 1 Critical Jack H. looking real good and i want to max my yield and save the 150 for veg down the road.

Thx for replying

 

[Desert Dan]

I would get a bigger tent. I did more than a few runs with the same setup as you now... 150w hps in a dr60 with a s&p fan with a phresh filter. In my opinion this is the ideal setup in a dr60, because when the walls suck in you are working with less than 4 sq ft.

The thought of cramming a bunch of ducting, cooltube, reducers, fan, filter, etc. in the dr 60 makes me feel claustrophobic.

Save yourself the trouble and buy a dr90, 6in fan, filter, cooltube, and a dimmable 400w.

Done Deal
DD

 

[Desert Dan]

Well for now I want to keep things small. I have house repairs being done, once that is complete i can move dr60 to veg fulltime. I have 2 female seeds C99 and 1 Critical Jack H. looking real good and i want to max my yield and save the 150 for veg down the road.

Thx for replying

If you want to keep it small then keep it small. Just pick up a fan and filter and call it good. If it ain't broken ya know.

DD

 

[willywonder]

Yeah i figured most ppl would steer me that way. The local hydro shop guy laughed and said try 2 150s or 1 250 econo wing instead or even T-5s in 4 corners. I have seen though some very cool results on here and other sites with a 250-400 w in a DR60 so that is my motivation.

If you were in my shoes and couldnt get a new tent for say 3-4 months - What would you add to the lighting? I am used to 430w nice C99 and Blueberry buds. Use to yield 6-11 Oz from that setup so thats why i am having 2nd thoughts. Get current yield up to max and then next run use what I have bought and relegate the 150 to a veg tent for perpetual.

 

[hush]

I'm using a 400 watter at 100% in an air cooled hood which is all being vented by a single 6" duct booster fan. I researched the hell out of it before I bought everything, and everyone said it couldn't be done, but I did it. The tent is in a very well ventilated bedroom closet that has a large fan and carbon filter, so I was able to go with the duct booster on the tent, instead of needing a high powered inline fan.

Ambient temperature entering the 2 passive intakes in the DR60 is pretty much always 75 degrees, and the temperature of the actual glass shield of the reflector measures at about 77, pretty much always consistently 2 degrees warmer than ambient.

There aren't even any circulation fans in there any more. I used to have a small one, but it took up valuable space once the plants got big. The plants get plenty of air movement from the booster fan alone.

The reflector is one of the smaller fully air cooled ones on the market, the Arctic Sun by Sunleaves. I have 6"duct on both sides of the reflector, wedged into place, and the exhaust side just goes right up through the home in the roof of the tent. The booster fan just rests right on top of the tent, blowing toward the other side of the closet.

There is a 424 cfm inline fan pulling through a large carbon filter exhausting through the wall, into the next room, which is a hallway that disperses the minimal heat very well into the rest of the house.

Oh yeah, by the way, the walls of my tent don't get sucked inward because the duct on both sides of the reflector makes the tent sort of bow about about 4 inches or so, counter acting the negative pressure a bit. I'm even utilizing the entire 2 x 2 space, with a megagarden flood and drain, to prove it. Plants aren't being crowded by any walls pushing in on them in my tent.

The trick is to simply grow small plants. Keep paying attention to my thread, and soon you'll see me do 16 single cola style plants in there at a time.

 

[willywonder]

Amazing Setup Hush. Funny ya mentioned Mega Garden use to use a Baby bloomer and was considering an easy ebb n flow instead of bubblers or soil. I like your idea about the kitty litter box as well, cause i was wanting to get a new cat. lol

So, your old cool tube ya didnt like what was dimensions on it if ya remember? I do like the hood and was also contemplating the Euro Hood from HTG or Gotham and also saw a Sun System 2 with Digi ballast 250/400 HPS switchable, this hood has a flange on top and they make a fan that sits in a box you put on top of the hood? Do you think that would work or would included digi ballast reak havoc on temps?

Thanks again your setup is one of the best!

 

[hush]

I believe the included ballast on those compact systems adds too much heat. I can't say for sure though, since I've never used one.

The little mini cool tube I bought came from Ebay, and it's a 5" diameter tube, with the mogul socket and internal reflector, as well as a "pop on" external reflector, kinda like bat wing style, but flimsy and really narrow footprint. The fixture itself from end to end is only 12" long, and the glass portion of this (the only part where the light will get through) is only 8". A lot of light will end up being trapped up inside there, since the bulb of a 400w is longer than this space. I think a 150w HPS bulb would be the right dimensions to use with it, which is what I'll eventually use it for.

But it just isn't a good match with the 400, that's for sure. Go with the HTG euro hood... I actually think that's the same dimensions as the Arctic Sun. Probably made in the same Chinese factory sunleaves buys them from, lol.

 

[OakyJoe]

Bump I looked the HTG EUro Hood, but is there something better now? I don't want to fire up 400 Watts, but maybe 250?

 

[grouchy]

Have you looked into the diy cree cxa-3070 leds? Bueno Time is getting killer results with 200w in a tent.

 

[timmur]

Have you considered a Sun System 315 LEC? Might be a bit much for a 2x2.

 

[bastar]

i thinnk you can put 250w or 400W but the 400W is litle too much ...

 

[Starmstr]

I'm finishing one run in a dr60 using two 400 bulbs one mh and one hps ran open and vented through the 4" scrubber. Granted outside temps are in the 50's now