Building a stealth Super Cabinet (at least im trying)

Whatapothead, ty, love your set-up - looks clean and organized +rep to you sir

Heat is my biggest concern with a 600 hps in a 2x 3 x 6.5 area. So insulation worries me some too but figured it was worth the calculated risk. I have a back up plan for adding a closed AC in case heat does become an issue. Taking this fatmat off is not an option even if i wanted to. One that stuff is on it is on for good, originally designed for cars so you can imagine the adhesive properties of the glue they use.

FullMetalJacket said:

Loudblunts happy you checked out my build as I agree with much of what opinions you give elsewhere..any recommentation for me?

Cajun , Sane, rockfish and Loco much thanks.

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quite frankly, i'd be fucking honored!!!!

well we seem to have a similar setup....minus the steel vs wood...lol

i have a flowering chamb and a mother and daughter chamber....

i've been working on it for some months now....i got so impatient...i bought a grow tent so i could start while i finish building the cab. although i ran out of money.

i'd be happy and honored to help you and answer any question i can.

dew-b said:

to help with moving them try putting them on caster wheels.
to help with light ajustment get some threded rod & whing nuts. drill a couple of holes in a shelf a little bigger then the threded rod put plant hanging hooks on the end of the rods. to sacure the hooks use superglue in the threds of the hooks then your lights are ajustable by means of the shelf or the rods. works real good in my cab that i built.gl on your build. just rember to make the holes the same distance apart as your grow light is long. with the shelves you can make a veg & flower chamber.

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Dew-b ty for the input but im not sure i undertstad your idea for hanging the lights. I will be using i hooks with the HTG light suspenders that make them a beeze to raise and lower. Base on your description it sounds like you have large rods sticking up from your shelve and my cabinet is too small for that type of deal. My shelves are all adjustable and I already have my left cabinet as flower and my right cabinet as clone / veg / mother. LOL about the part of measuring my light holes..i may be new but not a complete ass..well maybe..

I apoligize for some of the duplication of some of this thread?!?!?

I created the some posts, went back and they were gone...so I rewrote and added them again. I checked it out and it looked good for 24 hours and now today my posts that i thought disappeared are here again.

Anyone understand why this happened or what I can do to avoid it.

Sorry again

WOW... you know i must say that you did a very good job on this project..... what can someone like me bring to the table on this.. wow... the only thing i might agree on is the insulation deal... not sure where you live (and dont want to know) .... but where i do i had to take it off because of heat issues... i do flower at night so it keeps the temps down by about 15...(big).. during the day the only thing that runs is the vegging 4 light system with the ona exhaust on top... and two air pumps... so not too much heat during the day...


you might not have any of these issues because of your kick ass fans...

not sure if you already mentioned or not .... but do you have a total of expenses on this?.... good luck with your grow...

as far as the insulation....you just will have to push two strong independent ventilation setup....

well so i think.

i would have a fan strictly for intake, no passive. a fan for any HID lighting & a fan strictly for the cab itself.


how much did you lay down for that plasma cutter? seems like a cool tool to add to the collection....but i know that bitch is pricey!!!

calculate the cfms needed for the cab and go with a fan MORE THAN your needed cfms


keep HID lighting in some sort of cooltube or variation....should have no problems!!!!

I think its awesome that your building your own... I love the feeling that i made something with my own two hands...Even if its easier to buy a prefab 1

Fat Mat doesn't really give you as big of an insulation problem as you might immagine. It does insulate some, but once you paint it flat white you are good to go. Just leaving it the way it is, for some reason turns your grow box into one of those solar ovens you made in elementary school to cook a hot dog (anyone? shoebox lined with aluminum foil? anyone?), and fries your plants. Painting it solves the problem. It does require like 4 or 5 coats of paint in order to be really effective, but you can tell the difference after the first coat.

Personally, I would recomend against mylar in this cab. If you have probably noticed when you applied the fat mat, it's nearly impossible to get it to lye flat. Roll the shit out of it if you want, there are always little crinks and wrinkles in it. Once you add mylar those little wrinkles will be in the mylar too. Those little wrinkles will create hot spots. Painting is cheaper, easier, and solves some heat issues too. Just my two cents and personal experiences though.

Thanks for the input... as far as the fatmat I agree it has potential to be a problem. Sounds like specialkayme used this stuff before because he knows how much of a pain to roll completely flat it is. The thing with insulation is that it doesnt generate heat, it just keeps heat in or out. That being said, if I have a reflective material it shouldnt absorb much of the light to turn it to heat...i hope. So it sounds like mylar has to be flat and whit paint paint etc doesnt refract the light as directly it kind of disperses it back? I hung up a bit of the Panda paper to see if you guys thought it would work. It is not perfectly flat though. i included a picture.



Plasma cutter was 650 and i have another project i want to use it for. I have 3 21" connected monitors and I want to make my own wall hanging stand thing. Trying to buy it? lol ..I will probably sell it on ebay to recoup some of the money back... I will never use it after a week from now.

Some more stuff came in today..getting excited. Want the build to be over though.

So please help me out with the question

Will that Panda paper with the application you see above be sufficient. I can easily swap it out if not. I think i have mylar coming in the mail but dont remember...maybe ill just use it to cook the hotdogs as you suggested...lol

Not sure on the total price tag yet.. I will figure it out when im done and provide a breakout of individual costs. I would say somewhere in the middle as far as price though..more than some people spend and less than what other spend. lol

Another question please

When i have the cool tube installed, is it cool to pull the air through it? I know the fan was desinded to pull but could probably push as it is almost 500 cfm.. Just worried about the heat going through the fan.

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The cool tube mounting again, will the air come in the side the bulb is mounted? Or the open side of the bulb?

Truly an impressive start to what i'm sure will be one of the finest cabs i have ever seen.
P@ssw0rd

the panda film is good..i would leave it how you have it now...and you can push or pull through the fan...personally i pull the heat.....the heat wont hurt it.......

Thanks Fury.. so it is in fact flat enough?

Password, thanks for the compliment... you have a hell of a cab yourself.. I actually saved a few to look at before i started and one was yours I planned on using for refrence.

Panda is fine. I personally choose flat white paint only because it is easier in my opinion. But whatever. Just don't do mylar.

FullMetalJacket said:

Thanks Fury.. so it is in fact flat enough?

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..yeah its good....tthe white will not throw heat spots...the mylar will if it has to many creases and wrinkles in it......