22'x8' 6kw flower room build

[CampLoud]

Planning on doing 12-18 plants in a DTW setup.

-6x 1000w galaxy ballasts
-8" yield master reflectors
-Sunmaster bulbs

-qmax 10" fan / carbon filter combo
-8" max fan for cooling reflectors
-10" Phresh intake filter
-6x 3x3' trays




My progress so far:


I'll post more as this gets wrapped up.

Btw, anybody have any luck with Mills nutrients? I've been gifted their full line. I was going to use Cutting Edge, but these free nutrients will reduce my costs quite significantly.

Any and all criticisms or input are welcome.

Thanks for looking!

 

[CampLoud]

more flicks

more flicks

 

[COgrowerco]

Your room is coming along nicely. I have heard good things about the Mills line. Basically H&G but for half the price.

 

[CampLoud]

Update

Update

All the lights installed, ducting and all. Still need to setup the passive intake, waiting on a 10" backdraft damper to arrive. This will be behind my intake filter so when my fan and filter are not pulling, the stinky air won't creep back out through the intake.

To do:
-drains
-drip system
-mount 8" max fan for reflector ducting
-Mount oscillating fans
-set up Rez
-get some damn plants in here!

Any thoughts on pulling through 6 1000's with one 8" max fan? I have a feeling by the time the air passes through the 4th reflector it's going to be too warm to do any actual cooling. Time will tell.

 

[theother]

All the lights installed, ducting and all. Still need to setup the passive intake, waiting on a 10" backdraft damper to arrive. This will be behind my intake filter so when my fan and filter are not pulling, the stinky air won't creep back out through the intake.

To do:
-drains
-drip system
-mount 8" max fan for reflector ducting
-Mount oscillating fans
-set up Rez
-get some damn plants in here!

Any thoughts on pulling through 6 1000's with one 8" max fan? I have a feeling by the time the air passes through the 4th reflector it's going to be too warm to do any actual cooling. Time will tell.

What's Are your outdoor temps like? 6 is a lot for one fan. If it was me I would use 2 fans with 3 lights on each fan. 6 on one may work in the dead of winter but even then I have my doubts. I would def push the air through the hoods also, this is the best thing you can do for smell.

Also I have had problems with old galaxies, are these the early selct a watts? Even if there not, please mount them to a fireproof piece of metal. Also individual over current protection on each ballast would be a great idea (pm rives). I had a galaxy fuck up and smoke itself, thank god that was the extent of it, but it did not trip the breaker (should be set up breaker to timer, timer to subpanel, individual 20 amp breakers to plugs to prevent this)

Pretty sure there see a couple other members here that have had similar problems with the ballasts.

 

[CampLoud]

Right now outdoor temps are consistently around 45 F.

For now I'm hoping I can push* that cold air from outside (through a filter obv.) Through the reflectors. I plan to do a test this evening if I can get everything wrapped up.

The fan/filter combo I've got running is kind of overkill for this room, so I'm hoping that will help keep temps in check.

The ballasts are a couple years old, they look ancient because they were previously used in a large commercial grow. They got impressively sunbleached. They've actually got 2 years left on the warranty, believe it or not.

Anybody have any experience with these 'Vaportek 4000' contraptions? Thinking about putting one outside the room as supplemental odor control.

 

[overbudjet]

I am cooling 5 x 600 watt easy with 1 8"fan ,i use manifold to dispacht fresh air to each hood instead of a inline setup.It is also easyer to ajust heigh when each hood have their own input and output.In my previous setup i used inline cooling and the hood/room/air exhaust was hotter(at this time i was also using only 4 hood per 8"fan).

 

[theother]

Forgot it wasn't sealed, that will probably be good for winter. It's good to have the thermostat kicking on cooling the air/turning things over. Do do some kind separation from the ballast and any combustible materials behind them, metal, doubled up 1/2 or 3/4 drywall, anything like that. If you do drywall don't penetrate it with screws, find a way to attach them where it's solid behind. Fwiw, I believe 2 years is newer than the problem ones. Shop replaced the one that flamed out and I got rid of the rest, I believe the ones I bought about 2 years ago where not in that same batch number or whatever, as I did not remove them.

 

[CampLoud]

I would have liked to try a manifold system to cool my reflectors, but as I am in a hurry (which is never good)--and working alone, I decided to not take any chances and go with what I know works, kind of...

I figure if it doesn't work with 6 inline, I'll try a Y (coupler) and split the 6 reflectors into 2 runs of 3. They will still be inline, so the ducting would be a nightmare, and an eyesore. Even without any plants, the room already feels cramped. Hopefully I can make this work.

Thanks for the input!

 

[Mikell]

The Vaportek's look a treat, I've got one on my Christmas list.

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