Grow Room Floorplans. Here to help.
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phillipchristian
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Hey bud, I think the subpanel you'll need for that room will only cost you around $40-$50. I think you can wire the whole thing with breakers, outlets, etc... for around $150-$200.
You are wasting a lot of money on inline fans and duct boosting fans; plus the way you have it laid out is extremely inefficient. If I were you I would get 8" hoods if you are going to be trying to pull air through all 4 hoods with 1 fan. Lose all of the inline booster fans cause you won't need them. You have two options. One is to pull air from outside directly through your hoods and then exhaust it back outside. The just have the carbon filter and fan setup to recirculate the air in the room. Your lights will probably run much cooler this way. The other option is like what you have. Pull air through the carbon filter, then through the lights and exhaust it outside. In either scenario you'll only need 1 fan to do this. Purchase a quality 10" inline fan (Can Fan High Output or Max Fan) and use a duct reducer at the fan to connect your 8" ducting from the hood to the fan. Then use 10" ducting on the exhaust side of the fan. Use the fan to pull air through the hoods and exhaust it outside. You don't need (or want) a fan right after the carbon filter and you won't need the inline boosters.
phillipchristian
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How many watts are your lights? You only have 1 fan for all 11? How many curves are in your ducting? Are you pushing air through your carbon filter?
phillipchristian
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I just read your other thread and now I am super confused. You need to explain exactly how your room is setup cause I don't understand.
phillipchristian
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Is each room 15x10 or the whole space is 15x10? If so, then how big is each room. Do you have any air conditioning or fresh air intakes? How many watts are your ballasts? What size is are your hoods (6" or 8")? Are your hoods wunning in straight lines? Do they then connect to "Y" ducts and duct reducers/expanders before connecting to the 1 fan? Is the fan pulling the air from all 3 rooms? What other fans do you have and where are they?
You really need to explain the situation a lot better.
sorry for not explaining so well so the 2 small rooms are about 8x10 and are freshed air with an 12in fantech that are (Y) to each of the 2 small rooms. the main room is pulling in fresh air from a 12in fantech. the hoods are not cooled air yet. basically a friend was helping me and fucked it up and left me
phillipchristian
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Ok, I see your problem. You have the ducting setup all wrong. You should have fans after the "Y" ducts an not before. You are pushing to much air through the ducts and not pulling enough. Is there anyway you can make additional exhaust holes in the walls? Also, can you give me the room dimensions so I can draw up an example for you?
phillipchristian
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Your friend REALLY fucked it up. Can you draw me something a little more detailed? Show me where the lights are and what wattage they are? Show me the carbon filter, show me the size of the ports on your hoods as well.
phillipchristian
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Can you put holes in the walls? Do you have any kind of a/c or fresh air coming in to the rooms? Are you hoods just pulling air from the room through the filter and exhausting that?
tehgenoc1de
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The first ever 0001 watt lights!
Those are messed up.
Those are messed up.
pencap
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ok hey thanks for replying to my post so fast...I was thinking 4 lights in the 15x15 area,( was leaning on 600's) if ya think I can get 6sq out of each 1k lamp I'll be ok. I'm gonna modify the AC's return air. The "thermostat" on a ac unit works from the temps around it's return air. I plan to duct the Return Air (RA) directly into the grow room at about 6ft high, So temperatures from bulbs/ wont be a problem (no inline ducting from lamps) My Vent air is going to be a 10 inch hole cut into the ceiling of the rooms closet/roof of the house, pushed out by a separate "box" fan, but most likely a squirrell cage, I'll put a mini turbine on the roof so it dont look strange. I'll be out in the country so smell is not a problem either. Honestly bro, I've got most of the bugs worked out prior.....ha ha I've had 4 years to build this in my head while in prison. I even took a HVAC class for the sole purpose of temp and vent control!! The only real true questions i have left are on Co2. What kind of regulator, how the hell do you hook up a timer to a Co2 tank/reg? How much will I need to pump into the room and at what intervals. Wilth out foreknowledge of what temps on 4 1k lamps will be how can I determine co2 usage?
I'll be growing DWC/ Deep Water Culture but that's neither here nor there to do with temps and co2 useage. I mean Co2 is just an option and I understand it can increase yeilds up to 15-20% I'll go turn the dam vlave on high for a few seconds each hour if I have to~ we still havent nailed co2 into the equation...yet...
I'll be growing DWC/ Deep Water Culture but that's neither here nor there to do with temps and co2 useage. I mean Co2 is just an option and I understand it can increase yeilds up to 15-20% I'll go turn the dam vlave on high for a few seconds each hour if I have to~ we still havent nailed co2 into the equation...yet...
phillipchristian
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Hey pencap, thanks for stopping by. First off your lighting should be planned around the footprint of your plants; not your rooom. Let's say you are growing big plants that will need a 2x2 footprint for each one and you want to do 2 rows 6 plants. That means the footprint of your plants will be 4x12. That is perfect for 3 600w lamps (4x4 each). A 1000w will only get 6x6 if it's surrounded by 1000w lamps. Plan on 5x5 and anything extra is just icing on the cake.
With that many lights not being vented you had better have more than your central a/c blowing in that room. Look into a portable a/c maybe. That will not be enough cooling as you have it laid out; unless I am missing something.
With Co2; you get a valve and also get a sensor/controller. The sensor will tell the valve when to open and close. Then plug it all into a timer to shutoff when the lights go off and to come on 30 minutes before the lights do. If you are venting your room with an exhaust fan you are going to be wasting Co2 but I wouldn't worry about it.
phillipchristian
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Hey bud, thanks for stopping by. What would you like me to do? You want a layout for the room? How wide are your plants going to be at the end of flower (footprint of each plant approximately)? Sounds like you have PLENTY of lighting. Where are the doors and windows of the room? Do you have a dehumidifier? That can help a lot with PM. What is the humidity in the room?