Hanging 420W LED, 180W LED, inline fan and scrubber on 1" PVC tubing structure?

[GorillaGreenz]

I built a 4' wide x10' long x 6' tall tent built out of pvc tubing for the frame, mylar wrapped on the inside and black plastic on the exterior with a light tight zipper so I can get out.

For fresh air I built a window box over my window frame with of a light-tight curtain reinforced with a big sheet weather poof plastic. On the windowsill I laid out 10 dryer sheets taped to the window cracked open. It creates a little air filter the whole room smells like fresh laundry.

Going into that DIY window box I have a metal hood mounted on the windowsill behind the blinds with a flexible 6" dryer hose going into my room. Inside of the room it is connected to an exhaust fan with a carbon scrubber where it pulls the air through. I have intakes built in the PVC tubing where air travels through all of the bending it's a conveniently light-proof due to all of the angles of the tubing.I'm running 430 watt LED at the moment but I plan on adding another 180 watts in a week or two which is currently my veg light in another room. I'm only in week 1 of flowering and plan on setting up a perpetual harvest system.


With it being wintertime and running LED's I'm not worried about my room temperatures. However I was considering once I add both lights to raise the roofabove them and placing the carbon scrubber above them. The pvc structure is pretty durable, it's 1" thick and the carbon scrubber weighs maybe 5-10 pounds. Does anyone have any ideas working with PVC tubing as structure before and have any suggestions for hanging a heavy carbon scrubber and where to place intakes?

I have built in a lot of support but do you think that's too much? Ideally I'd like to build a separate chamber for the lights to have additional cooling factor once it warms up.

 

[omgwt]

i would probably add some vertical pvc pipes to the wall you're hanging the scrubber from, just to be safe.. Maybe 1-2 sticks on the 10 feet wall? A few straps attached to different load baring points of the pipes is also an idea... Anyway I've never personally built a tent out of the pipes, but i know theyre pretty durable - you'll notice quickly that the pipes will bend if there isnt enough load baring posts hehe, just go for it and see if it needs extra support

 

[GorillaGreenz]

Yes this is actually my 3rd rebuild, when I hung the 420 watt light I ended up having to rebuild at midnight (tired as hell) because I noticed the roof was collapsing and may have killed my babies!

What I found the most important thing was to use 3-joint anchors for the corners (8) instead of trying to use attachments, have all the corresponding pvc sections be the same length. When they are different lengths they bend and pop, just a huge pain in the ass. In the middle I do have 1 Vertical support column on either side near the cross beam where the light is hung from with one of those light-raisers (i have it all the way up, which is why I am considering raising the roof.

So my idea is to create a "box" on top of my existing structure around the middle. From looking at other grow designs it would make sense for it to have it's own separate intakes to help cool the lights down.

I will take some pictures soon as the lights turn on.

 

[Mikell]

Just spit ballin' here, but you could run a piece of rebar through the ceiling supports and tack with PL or such for a bit of extra support.

 

[GorillaGreenz]

Needs some trimming, waiting to build my cloner/veg cab then I'm gonna take a bunch of trimmings. The bottom most branch is about a 1/2 inch thick so I'm thinking of just incorporating it into the SCROG and then when I chop I'll chop everything above that thick bottom branch and get another week or two out of it.


Right now I only have the one main plant and two others I'm determining sex. The big GDP X God bud (i'm renaming pastrami OG as a joke) is already in need of scrog but I'm biding my time until I have my room perfected so I don't have to untie the scrog. The damaged leaves are from when I was banging around my grow room (I know not the most careful gardener, but I haven't done it since 2008.) A lot of learning going on with this room but I figure failure is the best teacher and I've got it dialed in a little better after a few fuck ups.


I like the idea of reinforcing the pvc and I may just do it.