2x4x6 sealed 3 room cab

[T.H.Cultivator]

So I have seen a few sketchup posts with cab designs and it got me all excited to design one. The dimensions are approximately 2(d)x4(w)x6(h), so that i can have single pieces of wood for all sides with standard 4x8 sheets.

Reletively small footprint, but with excellent environment is the aim.

I am planning on this providing a nice steady rotation of all the bud my friends and I could ever need. What do you guys think? Any input is helpful.

Here is the cab. (everything should be to scale.)



(Note, this i a front view with now door, so the rooms will be seperate and there are light dampers for flower room.

and a back view



flower 24x28 with 400hps air cooled
veg 17x39 with 250 mh air cooled
utility room holds AC, ballasts, fans, and CO2.

here is a pic with some airflow arrows.

(some items are hidden for easier viewing)

and a back view


Red is closed(sealed) air flow.
Yellow is lighting airflow that will also cool equip room.
Green is venting air flow, for exhausting air and refilling with CO2
Blue is the AC.(in front view)

I will also have a humidifier in veg that will circulate between the two rooms( live in a dry climate)
The ac is a 5000btu( the smallest one i could find.
CO2 is a 20lb. tank.

Any questions or comments?

One last thing is, sadly, I will not be building this soon, as I currently live abroad in a very unfriendly country. I just was reading up on stuff and got excited.
Anyone else can feel free to try and build it if they are interested, or gets popular. I will try and update the sketchup if improvements can be made.

 

[Jnugg]

Great looking work bro,that's an excellent looking cab and accessories.

IMO if wanting to go sealed,go bigger than a cab or small/medium tent.I've often fantasized of building one or two false walls in a spare bedroom running a sealed setup with a/c, cO2,drip feed...flippin' & floppin between 1-2 rooms/large tents.

If it were me,I'd just run an active exhaust & pasdive intake while using an a/c to cool the room the cab will sit in and draw it's fresh intake air from,using the room as a lung room so to speak.

Of course,if dead set on going sealed and using cO2 & a/c in the cab/tent...I'd over size the build if wanting everything contained within.

Not sure of you/your friends habits/needs but say maybe a 3x3 flowering area w a 400w-600w HPS.

And if you're gonna bother runnin'/spendin' the $ sealed and cO2 you should definitely be runnin' perpetual so I'd look into incorporating a mother/clone/veg area(s) into your design(s),and run the ventilation setup to where cO2 rich air from the flower section is drawn into the veg section.This would help raise the RH% in the veg section especialy when the flower section is in it's dark period(RH% spikes after lights off), Boosting rate of growth,while also removing excessive cO2 from the flowering section during lights out (plants don't need/use cO2 at night) and maintaining RH% in the flowering section so you dent get mold/bud rot.

 

[T.H.Cultivator]

Thanks for the input.

Yeah I know it is a bit compact, and a larger room or cab would be easier, but i guess i don't really want to dedicate a room to it. This way I could throw it in the corner of a room or even the garage, and then still have the room accessible.

The reason for CO2 and everything is to get the most weight and highest quality from the footprint. I will probably build it in stages so it would be a continual exhausted cab at first.
Maybe it will just stay that way.

As far as perpetual grow,That will definitely be the plan. Having the small right room grow clones and veg with maybe one bonsai mom. I would rotate a new plant into the flower cab every two to three weeks or so(when one finishes, its replaced).

Once sealed and CO2 enriched, I would have the two rooms circulating between each other so I could level out CO2 and RH. Going a bit low in veg just to be safe for flower issues.