~ShutterBug~

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Well where were we. Ahh yes. First though, I need a beer.


Ok first up I made my slot for my reflector connection into the box as I am mounting the ballast on top of the cabinet on a steel plate. So in that goes, just glued it in place with some gorilla glue then caulked it on the inside.


Now to the electrical in the cabinet. Now the electric being used from in the box will be the fans and air pump, so nothing majorly heavy duty. So I got my power box(the blue thing), I am using a 15amp plug and a 13amp power cord. NO worries I won't be using anywhere near 9.1 amps, more like 2...3 tops, I'll check later on the exact # that will be drawn from this plug.

The cable being used


Drill out the hole for the power in.


Thread it


Ran it up the corner using the wet caulking to hold it in place. Sorry about the quality of a few of these pics as I was in a hurry. Shit on my hands and had to use the auto settings on the camera, which is basicly retarded.


Ran it into the power box which is right next to the reflector cable.


I then caulked the power line into the corner.


Closer


Now were ready for to wire this up.


First we get our lines organized and ready for connection. Black is the hotline, white the neutral, and the green is ground. 2,2,1.


First the hotline.


Then the neutral.


Finally the ground.


Tuck it into the box.


Add a faceplate. After I am comfortable with the way it is set up I will be adding an enclosure around it, most likely after the first run goes through the cabinet.


Well the only thing left to do is see if it works, and the moment of truth... Will it work?


Oh my god I didn't burn the house down.. Nah I never doubted it... But what you don't see in the picture is that the fire extinguisher is just out of frame. You know...
Just In Case..


And I'll leave you for now with that. Hope you liked. Next time the new bubble bucket construction and more work on the cabinet followed by painting. But first....

RRROOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTSSSSSS!!


The bubblebucket has been moved into the 5.25 gallon bucket that I made 4 days ago just yesterday and pics will be posted next post.
O.k. bye​

Today we are going to go over me making my 5.25 gallon bubblebucket for when the plant is ready for the screen and flowering. That's when the next plant goes into the 3 gallon bubblebucket for beginning veg where it will be topped repeatedly in preparation for going under the screen.

Also we will go over a little more of the construction.


So removing a 4ft x 2ft plant from the cab will be impossible, I needed a way to remove the water from the bucket, so I added a spigot(I think that's the word I'm looking for. Lets watch.

Drilled the hole(Whats really jacked up is the bits I had were a smidge too small and a smidge too big for the hole size I needed, I went for too small, so the hole got kind of janky, but not too bad)


Grabbed the tape for the threading.


Screwed in the tap(yah I know its not the top of the line but it is what I had lying around)


I then grabbed the aquarium sealant


Then applied inside as well as outside.




I then took two sections of hard plastic tubing for aquariums(the kind you use to take the air tubing from the top of the tank to your layer of substrate so you don't have a squiggly tube running through your nice tank)Anyways, I attached it to the inside with a short piece piece of tubing to keep the airstones in the center of the bucket. I also added a short piece of tubing running out of the bucket(not pictured) through a hole I drilled and attached a duel male piece to just plug the air line in from the pump without having to get inside the bucket.


I didn't attach the lines out of the bucket until after the sealant dried


So that was the making of the bucket. That being said, the way it spout is connected it will leave 3/8's an inch of water in the bottom that won't drain out, I just have my fingers crossed that it won't screw with my pH too much. But considering that already my plant drinks a gallon of water every three days, that with the amount it drinks and the water exchanges I should be good.

Now some more construction stuff to check. Today we add the grate to the front of the cab.

First have to remove the front "bumper" if you will.


Then taped up the front so when cutting it wouldn't chunk the front panel up too much.


Measured out the cut. Drilled corner holes.


Then it's cuttin time.


After the cutting put the grate into place and of course, caulked it up.


And once dry it's time to see if it fits.


And there she is upright, just waiting to be painted. And also in this picture you can see a test strip of weather strip to see if that's what I wanted on that particular section of cabinet. More on that later... After the painting is done...


Measured out where to put the eye hooks for the hood and test hung the fixture. The first, but surely not the last time she'll be in there. Woo hoo starting to look like a cab.


No it won't be hanging by a couple carabeaners when it's running. I promise.




Packed up for the evening and ready for the next day.


And a shot of my ECSD x Grapefruit girl about three days ago? Maybe four. The bigger fan leaves are huge, about 10-11 inches long and about 3 inches wide. I'll take some shots with a tape measure. But she's healthy and happy, and at I think 14 tops tucked in there somewhere, so she should spread across the screen pretty well, maybe one more topping before I put the net on and throw her in the cab.


Next time. Painting! and some other stuff.
See ya then.​