[superpedro]

Hps grower gone micro - Love building that stuff!
My new grow closets are soon finished. Thought I'd throw in a few pictures from the early testrun I'm currently doing.

It's a closed closet system, meaning no air pulled from the outside and CO2 is injekted instead.
I have only got one closet up and running yet, it runs with 6 x 55w pl-l tubes, a special iron free glass plate (like the glass used in a solar panel with almost no loss of light) is at the top of the closet, working like a cooltube.
I use 5 fans to pull the air out from the tubes. Keeping them cool means higher light output and longer lifetimes, and allows me to use co2 = I don't care if about a little loss of light anyway.


All 3+1 closets:


The airchannel above the closets:




Inside the tech/future water reservoir location for the hydro system. There is a small cooler it the top of the closet, a heat exchange i pulled from a cooler, but it can only lower the temp about 1-1,5 degrees C

This is also where I'm building the frame for my carbon filter.


I'm a hydro grower, but to get something started while Im still building the closets, the testrun is done in soil.


Without using my cooler i run with a max temp below 25 degrees C.

Let me know what you think.

[grow1620]

wow looking great. very nice job, i look forward to updates.

[ScrubNinja]

Daaaamn Pedro, I was expecting a couple of lights chucked in a box, but not this Pretty impressive. Can we get some door open shots from a distance? Does the air flow down through the carbon layer? Otherwise how do you get the air down, so you can push it up?

[superpedro]

Thanks guys!

Under the shelf 4 fans are placed, they pull the air through the (yet to be installed)carbon layer.
The tube exit through the bottem of the closet leads to the closet on the far right, and 3 fans more between the grow closets help move the air throug the system.


The dehumidifier is from my hps growroom, it will be replaced with a much smaller one

does the glass plate benefit you a lot with your temps? or is it more for a barrier if the plants grow into the lights too quickly?

[#1cheesebuds]

wow wow that setup looks very nice.

[superpedro]

Originally Posted by theratings

does the glass plate benefit you a lot with your temps? or is it more for a barrier if the plants grow into the lights too quickly?

I keep the temp. down in my closet by having all hot devices on the outside. I wan't to keep re-using the same air without heating it up, in order to keep my raised co2 level inside.

Thanks

[TokeSolo]

Looking really good superpedro, very stealth from the outside! And your avatar is cool!

It looks as though you only have about 4 or 5 inches before you run out of vertical space.
Those large square pots are taking up half of your total vertical space. Are you going to have enough room for stretch?

[superpedro]

Thanks

Originally Posted by coconaut

It looks as though you only have about 4 or 5 inches before you run out of vertical space.
Those large square pots are taking up half of your total vertical space. Are you going to have enough room for stretch?

I usually don't take up to much space above the screen, I like it dense and low

I have thought of making a hole I could fit a tub into, in order to get ekstra space, but i don't think it will be needed

The shelf the pots are standing on, can be lowered to the bottom of the closet. The screen stands on the shelf as well.
I will use hydro later on, something that can be raised as well, that will give me much more space to play with.
Top of the plants will be raised to the top when flowering.