cooling a closet without cutting holes

I have a cabinet inside my closet. Its actually a marshall amp. The cab has intake/outake fans with light traps. Inside are 1 table fan and 1 cpu fan cooling the lights. They intake and exhaust into the closet, which is not vented.

I just changed to 26w cfls and it got very hot, near or over 100 degrees. I need a way to cool the closet enough to cool the cab. The door is left open during lights on and I have no a/c in my room, only 1 in the living room. I have the option to put an a/c in my room but I would like to avoid it.

A friend suggested freezing 2 gallon jugs and placing them by the intake and outake. Obviously put them in something to collect condensation.

Would that cool down that cabinet, drawing air over the frozen blocks?

Any other ideas that don't involve drilling into my attic or basement?

Thanks in advance!

the gallons will not work. they will melt too fast. you will need an a/c of some kind. maybe a window unit, about 100 bucks

When I first started I built a big cab in my closet. I didn't really need it but it gave me options for flowering and vegging in the same area. The two best ways I learned to combat the heat was doubling up exhaust and having a big open passive intake (pulling air is much more efficient than pushing it) and also the most important part, get rid of the heat completely. You cant just vent into the same area the intake is and expect it to change the temperature any amount. Since you don't want to cut up your house you'll have to run a vent to a window. I no longer use a cab but when I set up my bothers area we ran a vent to a blower fan (50$), which I easily modded the intake to fit the vent, that blew all the heat out the window. He uses dual air cooled 400s and hit temps were sitting pretty at 75 in a hot area of the US.

If it's building up, no other solution but to remove the heat you've already removed from your box, from the closet now. Fan blowing in the bottom and sucking out the top of the closet door? Might be more conspicuous looking than a 4" hole in a wall hidden inside a closet. It's not hard to replace the whole you cut when yo leave.

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THX for pointing that out

wtf................. someone need to take that dog out back and put it down

Going to be easiest to just get window unit. You said you leave the door open during the day. You said using cfl so there is no reason to go threw the trouble of running an exaust system with cfl lights. Best to keep. Grow under 90 degrees, 80 would be better.

Not sure of ur living arrangements butu can buy a door same size andcut the holes u need. When u move or whatever put the other door back on..tada

I had a similar problem with a box I put together in the basement. I was in basement as opposed to a closet but changing fans made a world of difference. I started with just a vent at the bottom and a 90mm fan pushing air out. No good it was not cooling. I added a 120mm fan to bottom inlet, no change. I added 2 more 120mm fans for more circulation, no change. I moved the 2 120mm fans that were just moving air to the top of the box, next to the lights. With the 2 fans pulling air from the top of the box and blowing it to the bottom of the box the temps came down. My final box is one 120mm fan pulling air in the bottom, one 90mm exhausting the top side and two 120mm fans blowing hot air from lights down to the floor. Box 2 feet tall, 2 feet front to back and 4 feet wide with 6 23w cfl. You might try something like that if you can.