I posted this in my thread on building the lights but figure I should put it here also.
Well, you know how things snowball? The veg light strips seems to be working out fine, decided to do a couple of strips for flower. 100W equivalent 12W actual for the same $1.30. Made a few, then a few more, two strips not shown as they are in the closet to the right (no door). Took some pictures while the lights were off otherwise they would wash out everything.
And the patio seating. I found the number of plants I had were starting to crowd each other so I made a temporary flower area for four plants along with my beer cup grow. The extra screw in bulbs is to give the beer cup grow as much light as possible.
So about 122 bulbs, let's say 10W a bulb, they draw a bit less than rated, 1100W for about $175 with consumables (wire, solder, heat shrink tubing, tie wraps).
On the cheap grow department, had an old blower and am using it with 4" duct. It removes enough heat and humidity so that by the end of the day the temperature at the leaves is about 28 C (82 F) and humidity about 35%. The 4" duct should be undersized but I end up having to throttle back the airflow as I want to keep a some of the heat and humidity in the room. Also come winter I do not want to blow a ton of air outside.
I have a piece of plastic dryer duct to decouple the fan from the ducting. Originally I had a continuous metal duct and the fan hanging from wood strips off the floor joists. It coupled to the floor and used it as a drum. It was loud. So I used coil springs to hang the fan with, the dryer vent duct and a 2 liter pop bottle to connect the exhaust of the fan to the 4" dryer vent exhaust duct and flaper to the outside. I got luck with the plastic pop bottle. It was just a little larger than the rectangle exhaust opening and just fit on the 4" duct. I made a damper that fit in the exhaust duct that I use to throttle back the flow.
I need to clean up the wiring on the fan, the light strips will be mounted on a 2"x2" wood frame so I can raise and lower the lights. I have the patio seating for now but I am anticipating just using the room once I determine which strains I want to grow.