Setup a 1200W 4x8 Grow Tent! Need advice

Hello guys!

At the moment I have 4x4 grow tent, with 600W Dual Spectrum Inside, Prima Klima 150/170 twin speed exhaust fan (400/620 cfm).
So, now I got some cash, I want to invest it, buy another 4x8 tent with 2x600W Dual Spec and make it flower room, while the 4x4 tent will be veg/clone room.
I grow in soil for now, I've been very interested in hydro also, but that will be my upgrade when I get perfect at Soil.

So far, I've been googling for like a month, trying to find the best equippment I can put my hands on.
Please, Look at the setup that I made for now, and give your opinion.
If something has to be changed, or you know something (other brands etc) that are better, please tell me.
My budget, including shipping is 3000 Euro, or 4000 dollars.
I live in Europe, if that means something.

My whole idea is, I gonna have 10-12 plants vegging in 6L or 10L air-pots for 2 months in the 4x4 tent, take cuttings from them, place clones again in the veg tent in Heated Propagator, move the Vegging plants to flower room, and veg the clones for 2 months until i harvest the flower room, and repeat the whole process again. I'm considering to clone in 1" rockwool, using clonex gel, and when clones are ready move them to 6L or 10L air-pot.
I want to make the perfect enviroment, especially in my flowering room.
So, let me give you some details guys.

Veg/Clone tent.
The tent I have now, 4x4 Secret Jardin Dark Street 2, will be upgraded with:
1. Maxibright T5 Propagation light 4ft 8 tube = €185.75
2. 4" TT Inline exhaust fan, as I imagine, that these t5 wouldnt put too much heat, compared to the 600W Dual Spec, 4" TT Inline fan must hold it, if not, i will buy a bigger one later.
3. Stewart Large Heated Propagator - €40.62
4. Air-pots
5. Oscilating fan
6. Humiditifier

Flower tent.
1. Dark Room DR 240w Grow Tent mk2 - €255.41
2. 2x Blockbuster Air cooled Digital light kit - 600w kit(with Lumatek digital dimmable ballast)
3. Prima Klima Twin Speed Fan 6" - 620 cfm
4. 6" Aluminium Acoustic Insulated Ducting 150mm
5. Rhino Pro Filter 6" (the smaller one A1) 150x300mm. its said to be 600mh3
6. Hydrogarden Min/Max Combo Digital Hygrometer - €12.76
7. Ecotechnics evolution fan speed controller - it controlls Temperature, humidity and I have the option to attach a Heater to it.
8. 2 Oscilating Fans
9. Light controller: Maxibright MaxiSwitch Pro 2 Contactor - €58.04
Tools:
1. Ph meter: Trying to decide between ESSENTIALS TRIDENT METTER (PH,EC,TEMP) or BlueLab Guardian, i think Trident is easier to use.
2. Individual Steralised Scalpels
3. 3x stackable Dry Rack - grow tent - €20.86
4. Bud clean curved scissors - spring loaded €12.76

Everything will be inside my bedroom, I live in apartment (rent).
Also, I emailed the website that I look this items at, and they say they want 600 euro for shipping from Europe to Europe ( they said its big order so it has to be shipped on a pallet ),
I also found some of the items cheaper on ebay, with 25-30 euro difference in the price, so this confused me a lot, If I buy the cheaper items on ebay, and get the other items from the website, will I save on shipping?
Or getting separate deliveries will go more expensive?

Next question is: For 8weeks vegging clones, is 6L Air-pots enough, then transfer in 15L air-pots in flowering, or I should use 10L air-pots for 8 weeks of veg?

Any comments will be helpful, thank you guys.

Just a word of advise. may save you a buck. I got and 8x4 tent on ebay for $145(110.08 Euro).... this one is a little more and may cost a bit to ship. but as long as you set it up and hang your gear properly you won't have issues with it... I don't


Good luck with the grow
Stew

what is this tent's quality compared to secret jardin dark room?

never seen the DR so i dont know exactly. but i have no complaints and neither do my plants.
I'm only using half the tent with a single 400w MH at the moment. adding a second friday and 3rd(switching all to HPS) for flowering. 1200w HPS total for 48 or so plants.
as you can see the tent is highly reflective.
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More opinions?

anyone else please? bump

Sounds like a nice op. One thing you need to inquire about, discreetly, is if you get annual inspections at your building. I currently run a 2x4 veg and a 4x4 bloom tent in an apartment. They come in once a year to make sure the apt isn't trashed. To make matters worse, they do the annual at my building during the winter months. Makes it next to impossible to stash on the balcony, but can be done for a short period of time. It's a pain to tear down and hide anything that is currently growing but better than the alternative. I know some places do inspections 4 times a year. Figured give you a heads-up. Also, if growing in soil, make sure to have a bunch of house plants to hide the wet soil smell!! Peace!!

All the equipment sounds fine,but the shipping is kinda ridiculous. Try a few different spots for the gear before you pull the trigger. Plantlightinghydroponics.com is a decent spot.
BTW, I have an 8x4 with 1200, and you haven't mentioned how you will deal with the temps. They get Hot, so a/c is mandatory. Good luck whatever you decide ATB!

i can hardly believe the heat difference between a 600 to two 600s.Its twice the heat for sure

I dunno about A/C i have a 4x4 tent setup in my basement with a cheap-ass xtrasun 6 inch air cooled reflector that i modified the bracket on for the light socket. i moved it down and put it to the outside of the flange and fabricated a bracket bought a mogul socket did the same thing on other side. am able to fit 2 1000 watt bulbs in there.
YES 2 1000 WATT BULBS!!!!!!! ANY COMBINATION OF BULBS
Right now im currently 3 weeks into flower running a sunmaster SHO 150,000 lumen 1000 watt HPS bulb. and on the other side i have a 600 watt ushio opti-red HPS that's 97,000 lumen. i have a 6 inch active air duct fan rated at 400cfm with 6x16 phresh carbon filter rated at 400 cfm (in grow tent thats 112cf) connected to fan intake and exhaust blowing throw reflector cooling both bulbs and vented outside the tent into my basement. now in the summer our days average around 90 degrees very humid. i just have my intake ducting sucking air in from my basement and temp stays right at about 78-79 with lights on low about 72-75 without. we have central air condenser about 15 feet away and keep our house reletavely warm at around 72-75 thermostat. now during fall winter and spring i connect my intake duct which has a damper handle i got from home depot i hook it up to i dryer exhaust outside and use indoor exhaust for dryer to vent into basement. now with furnace running basement warms up pretty decent i dunno to what but i can adjust how much outside air my tent sucks in. i live where we get harsh, cold, long winters. we receive over 100in of snow annually and temp average around 24F* for winter months. so in fall, winter and spring i just adjust air sucking in from outside and do great. earlier this week we had a couple nights in the low 40s even a night at 36. i had my damper open a lil bit and my temp low for the night was 69 degrees f. hi with lights on was 78. last year all winter i think my lowest temp got to like 63 but it was weird day was like 45 degrees one day opened vent for more fresh air thru tent and forget to close it back to winter opening and temp dropped to like 16 overnight. checked 10 hours later when light kicked on and read thermometer and low of 63. had a couple 65, 66 and so on and never did a thing to plants. in fact i think they loved the constant fresh air cause whole cycle they were green and loving my aggressive nute regime.