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Dr. Penguin

Registered: 05/19/08
Posts: 1,036

The Doc builds a cab

#129630 - 10/06/08 06:07 PM (16 years, 6 months ago)

Hey guys, I've got this cab pretty dialed in at this point so I decided its time to show her off. Everything except the ballast and the fan are home made. All and all about a 500$ project, not to bad.

Ventilation: 170cfm econoline inline duct fan.
Lighting: 400W Galaxy Digital ballast.

Here it is from the outside.

I keep an air conditioner or a room fan on and the cab is silent, I love my fan speed controller.

Open.

My intake is the big hole in the bottom, the baffle is not in place in this picture. The back is a piece of melamine to replace the cardboard it came with.

The baffle.It allows for a great deal of airflow and is 100% lightproof.

I decided to go for a 400w digi ballast but in order to deal with the heat I had to do some air cooling. I decided on a homebrew cool tube. The glass is a pyrex bake-a-round from ebay and it is supported inside the tube with cafe rod brackets, pretty nifty. I can keep my plants about 2" from the glass and they do just fine.

Here's a shot of the cool tube assembly.

Here is how its attached.

I cut a piece of straight ducting to form a reflector.

My carbon scrubber is home made as well, a couple 4" and 6" ducting pieces, some chicken wire and a stocking. Total cost = 25$, can't be beat and 100% effective.

Shown with my ballast box.

I'm a hydro kind of guy so I build a four bucket system to fill the space. All the buckets are connected and run to a rez outside the cab to keep cool. In the rez is a 90gph submersible pump connected to a 1/4" manifold that delivers nutes to each bucket.

Shown here is one of the buckets. (This is after storage, the drain connector is backwards and the ebb and flow filter fitting isn't attached. )

A word of advise, if you buy black 1/4" tubing, it is really stiff. In order to get it to bend into shapes you can use (and stay that way) apply a little heat.

Here are the buckets installed. (Don't mind the lamp, I was starting some seedlings under a cfl...)

I think that about covers it. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions!

Oh and if you want to see what some plants look like inside of this baby, check out:
My last Journal

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* My Cab
* How to Build a Grow Tent
* Fan Speed Control 101
* Easy Butane Extraction
Not responsible for advice not taken.

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Magash
The Feminizer

Registered: 04/21/08
Posts: 6,634

Re: The Doc builds a cab

[Re: Dr. Penguin]
#129679 - 10/06/08 08:14 PM (16 years, 6 months ago)

Nice job.

Here is one I did for a friend a few years ago.

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