DIY Grow cabinet help

Well @zypheruk you fucked up. I thought I was done building lights until you turned me onto those Samsung influx strips. I just ordered two of those influx h s04 strips to throw some cooler light into my veg tent. I’m not going to be running anything at full power now. I just wanted some cooler light to help keep internodes tighter. I think I’ll turn my board to half power and run the strips at about 40 watts so I’m only using 100 in the tent. I’m going to make a simple aluminum frame to hold a strip on either side of the board. Just sucks I don’t think there is any way to run the boards and strips off the same driver since the voltages are so different.

These are the strips I ordered and they should make a nice little array to improve my veg/clone situation. Building lights truly is addictive as fuck. Digikey needs to get better about listing the model numbers of this shit. I had to blow up the pic and zoom way in to find that it’s the H Influx S04.

I have no idea what these people are thinking saying that quantum boards get hotter than strips. They are more efficient than something with fewer LEDs like a bunch of spaced out strips. More efficiency means less heat per photon.

LarsVegasNirvana said:

I have no idea what these people are thinking saying that quantum boards get hotter than strips. They are more efficient than something with fewer LEDs like a bunch of spaced out strips. More efficiency means less heat per photon.

Click to expand...

It depends how you run things. Anything ran soft can be closer than single board densely packed and running full out, which needs to be 18" above plants.
In a closet situations every inch is a bonus so lots of strips ran soft can buy you valuable space.

Of course you can do that with boards too, if you can source them cheap enough.

coreywebster said:

It depends how you run things. Anything ran soft can be closer than single board densely packed and running full out, which needs to be 18" above plants.
In a closet situations every inch is a bonus so lots of strips ran soft can buy you valuable space.

Of course you can do that with boards too, if you can source them cheap enough.

Click to expand...

For example qb 65 for a veg room, at what distance these should be ran?

extremophile420 said:

For example qb 65 for a veg room, at what distance these should be ran?

Click to expand...

For a 2x2 area , around the same , 18" above plants. More for new seedlings, since the 65 isn't dimmable.
Doesn't take much light to veg with them.
With some strains you can probably go closer

coreywebster said:

For a 2x2 area , around the same , 18" above plants. More for new seedlings, since the 65 isn't dimmable.
Doesn't take much light to veg with them.

Click to expand...

Yeah i plan on having one qb65 in my 60cmx60cmx150cm veg room, one qb260 for my flower room, and ill have a 50cm high partition powered by t5's for clones and try maybe bonsai mothers, that should fit in 50cm height

extremophile420 said:

Yeah i plan on having one qb65 in my 60cmx60cmx150cm veg room, one qb260 for my flower room, and ill have a 50cm high partition powered by t5's for clones and try maybe bonsai mothers, that should fit in 50cm height

Click to expand...

I like bonsai mothers, will work well under t5! There's a good thread on here somewhere about bonsai moms.

coreywebster said:

I like bonsai mothers, will work well under t5! There's a good thread on here somewhere about bonsai moms.

Click to expand...

So i decided to get a 60cmx180x200 closet. Any tips or remarks regarding construction? Im planning to make a frame covered with plywood or osb painted flat white.
Any remarks i should tell the carpenter in order to make the best grow environment? (tips to make it light tight, air tight, make it last longer etc...)

extremophile420 said:

So i decided to get a 60cmx180x200 closet. Any tips or remarks regarding construction? Im planning to make a frame covered with plywood or osb painted flat white.
Any remarks i should tell the carpenter in order to make the best grow environment? (tips to make it light tight, air tight, make it last longer etc...)

Click to expand...

Make sure the paint is moisture resistant. I would go for an eggshell finish top coat to seal it and then its washable and less likely to have mould form.

Consider your intake and extraction for each chamber and where your ducts will run, since your wanting discrete you don't want ducts obvious.

Think about how the doors open and have some overlap so light doesn't shine through every gap.

Make sure you have points to screw in to for anything that hangs, you need to be sure everything is solid

Im sure there are lots more things but ive just woke up from a heavy new years eve and I can hardly type straight.

coreywebster said:

Make sure the paint is moisture resistant. I would go for an eggshell finish top coat to seal it and then its washable and less likely to have mould form.

Consider your intake and extraction for each chamber and where your ducts will run, since your wanting discrete you don't want ducts obvious.

Think about how the doors open and have some overlap so light doesn't shine through every gap.

Make sure you have points to screw in to for anything that hangs, you need to be sure everything is solid

Im sure there are lots more things but ive just woke up from a heavy new years eve and I can hardly type straight.

Click to expand...

Happy new year man, i smoke more than you can imagine of some fine lebanese hash i woke up feeling new.