[Lapides]

Originally Posted by Phychotron

If you go with a tape/reel won't you have to come up with some sort of circuit board to isolate them from the heat sink?

I'm still relatively new to this, but I was under the impression that they would stick right to the heatsink. I thought I read somewhere they use 3M adhesive on the tape. I'm pretty sure this guy just stuck them right on - https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.ph...44&postcount=1

If I'm wrong I'd definitely like to know so I can start alternative plans.

[saitama]

subd!

[Lapides]

My thermal glue came in from China finally yesterday. The week seemed to have dragged on forever.

I got a bit of work done yesterday and a bunch done today. I'm waiting for some glue to dry and I'm gonna test the ventilation.

Once I get it to it's permanent spot, I'm going to make the entire bottom of the cabinet a Soma-style bed.

The 2 elbows you see on the side of the 6in exhaust are most likely going to be replaced with caps. There are 2 elbows on the other side.


Cranked down



Cranked up












I'm gonna be throwing gg4 and Chem '91 in there. ISS will have to go on the back burner.

[Lapides]

I'd say I'm about 98% done with the build. I need to go over all of the edges and corners again to make sure everything is super tight. There's a little bit of whistling going on and a few light leaks, but it's definitely veg ready.

I have a temperature sensor on the wall about 2.5 inches away from the light and the inside of the cab is actually reading a couple degrees cooler than the outside.


Airflow is on point. I put my phone in there with the door shut and took a video and the leaves are dancing around in there beautifully with no oscillating fan at all. Not to mention the exhaust is sucking the hot air off the heatsinks directly.



As far as the build goes, it was all from scrap wood I had in my garage. I just had to buy some brackets and whatnot. It barely cost me anything in total so I'm stoked. If I get $300 in herb back I'll break even and I'll be happy.

[Phychotron]

I guess I didn't realize that reel/tape was already wired and ready to go.

No side lighting?

My cheap led grow box has a bunch but the diodes are a little too close and the plants touch and burn. I'd love to see how well the plants do in close proximity to the diodes.

[Amish Guerilla]

Very nice I'm subbed!

~Amish G~

[saitama]

Subd!

[blynx]

Very cool! Tight build on the cab!
Looking forward to seeing the cab full of flowers.

[AvidLerner]

I picked up a 5m reel from mufue company on alibabba. nice folks. I am waiting for the delivery today, less than 5 days from choices to payment to production to delivery. I got 5000K samsung lm561C S6 bin latest strip pre-wired for constant voltage. The strip is approximately 100w total. I will be usi9ng a meanwell 24v-125w constant voltage power supply for power.
namaste

[Lapides]

Things are pretty much done. I'll be going over the outside a lot over the next couple of weeks making sure there are no light leaks and I'll be flipping.

Here is my soma style bed.


That is some really thick rubber pond liner we had left over from relining our pond last summer. It's made by Firestone, like the tire company, if I'm not mistaken. Really durable shit.




Threw down some pea gravel.




A layer of plastic chicken wire.




Topped with landscape fabric.



2 inch PVC pipe going down into the pea gravel 1" and the rest is my dirt.