My attempt on building a semi-stealth cabinet (pix inside)

DocBrown

DocBrown

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Well ladies and gentlemen I would like to thank all the members here that have posted useful information, I have learned so much from you all. I've been wanting to start my own personal grow for quite some time but have only started doing research for about a year now. I decided to go with a cabinet since my lady gave me shit about taking over her walk in closet :evil: I also considered growing in my attic but tested temps up there and they went up to the 120s and it's not even summer yet.

Since I'm beginner I went with a 150w hps. I will upgrade accordingly to my skill level. As far as strain, I went with White Rhino. I sometimes have trouble sleeping at night and was told that this particular strain helps with that. I have two seeds germinating at the moment using the paper towel method, I checked last night and seen a little bit of tap root. Anyways here are some pics. Questions, comments and advice is more then welcomed.


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Merlin85

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I'd say that is pretty awesome! I think you did a great job. I recognize those same fans and light in my grow box. Do you have any place for fresh air to be blown/sucked in?
 
lbow89

lbow89

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very nice man, i thought my homemade box was nice. you take the cake and eat it my friend
 
b1izzard

b1izzard

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i saw those cabinets and was about to buy one myself, but decided that i would build myself one for much less. it looks great though. only thing is your gonna want to add an exhaust fan and a passive intake hole to get the air circulating in the box. Also if you can i would try to vent that hood, or build a cool tube. Heat and humidity will be your two biggest problems with that setup.
 
DocBrown

DocBrown

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Thanks for the kind words fellas. If you look at the last picture you can see where I installed an exhaust fan on the top right hand corner, it's a s&p td-100. Also at the bottom you can see some black things sticking up, those are my two 4" passive intakes which I have made light proof and also added filters in them so bugs don't get inside. I have placed the cabinet in my music room so continuous fresh air can be drawn in to the cabinet. I realized once I started drilling holes in the cabinet that the quality of the cabinet wasn't all that great but I said fuck it since I was already half way done with it. Next upgrade I'll build a cabinet from scratch.

Any of you all use s&p fans? I did a dry run last night to check temps and humidity and my fan quit working for no apparent reason. I uninstalled it and checked the wiring and all looked fine but I couldnt get it to run. Guess I'll give them a call and have them replace it.
 
DocBrown

DocBrown

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Looks like they'll be sending me a new one today for free. I told them about my situation and no questions where asked. I don't even have to ship the one I have back to them.
 
DocBrown

DocBrown

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beginningbotanist420 said:
They shipped you a free one, no questions asked, without havng to return it, all because it just quit working? What's wrong with the fan?
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I took the fan to my uncles to have it checked (he's an electrician) come to find out I crossed my wires and killed it. When I talked to the representative (maybe he was the manager) he told me he was going to call s&p direct and get it sorted out for me. He asked for my phone number and called me 30 minutes later with the good news. He said that there are rare occasions that these fans quit working but it has happened twice before. So he just said that s&p will be shipping it out to me. I lucked out because on their warranty policy it states that they dont replace any items that have been damaged due to improper wiring.
 
DocBrown

DocBrown

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exit220 said:
how much $$$$$ did it take
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The fan was $77 shipped. As far as the whole project, I'm not sure yet. I have all the receipts saved because I'm curious myself on how much I've spent. I will post a figure when I add it all up.
 
BRSkunk

BRSkunk

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Keeping my eye on this, contemplating a grow very very similar but with a small clone champer and 400W in a cupboard maybe slightly wider but not as tall... heat may be a issue even with a cooltube.
 
DocBrown

DocBrown

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Looks like one of them is ready to rock and roll. Came out looking for light Monday morning. The other one looks like it kind of wants to come out. I've read it can take up to a week to sprout, is this correct?

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DocBrown

DocBrown

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Got a question regarding the other seed that looked like it wanted to sprout. I took a closer look and it seemed that the two little leafs that grow before the two true leafs were wilted and kind of dying out. I gently moved a little bit of more soil to see if was due to me planting the seed to deep but when I did that I came across the seed, which I didn't move. So I covered everything up gently with soil at about half an inch. You fellas think I'm fucked or will it actually sprout in a couple of days?
 
DocBrown

DocBrown

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The only light leaks I get are from the front doors. I tried using some weather strip but it didn't work out to well for me, it pissed me off so I ripped it off. The room I have the cabinet in is pretty dark but I still just throw a dark cover over the cab at night just to be safe.
 
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