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Manually flip-flopping
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Bobby Boucher
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Can't really think of any improvements to the light rail system, so I pulled the trigger and ordered some trolleys and bought 20' of unistrut which I'll bolt together back to back. I figure the farther apart I set the tents the better, as far as light-proofing goes.
So far I'm ~$120 in the hole. Still need.. 8" cooltube, 8" hose and hvac fittings, two 8"inline fans, a couple 4x4 tents, and some good zipper. I'll have to shave 2-3 feet off of the top or bottom of the tents and retro-fit them with a couple of openings (and zip closures) at the top to slide the light in and out of. Getting everything stitched together nicely is gonna be a pain in the dick, I'm sure.
So far I'm ~$120 in the hole. Still need.. 8" cooltube, 8" hose and hvac fittings, two 8"inline fans, a couple 4x4 tents, and some good zipper. I'll have to shave 2-3 feet off of the top or bottom of the tents and retro-fit them with a couple of openings (and zip closures) at the top to slide the light in and out of. Getting everything stitched together nicely is gonna be a pain in the dick, I'm sure.
Bobby Boucher
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I donno if anyone here is using the magnum xxxl low profile reflector.. but unless anyone has any better suggestions, it looks like I'll be ordering one by the end of day. The light rail is going to wind up shaving 3-4 inches from my vertical clearance, so.. I'm looking to make up for that loss however possible. 5' is already a stretch.
I'm still curious as to whether or not this reflector is really going to be as effective at removing heat as a standard 8" cooltube would be, seeing as how close the bulb is to the glass on the low profile unit, and I'll also more than likely have to solder up some custom oval to round adaptors for a perfectly custom fit so that the vent is simply accepted into the duct at either end of the rail, but.. unless anyone has any better ideas.. I'm pretty set on the low pro. I still have 6 weeks left on the current cycle, but I want to get everything ordered and staged for assembly so that I'm ready to roll come day 1.
Oh, and since the f'n reflector is 4'x4'.. I'm gonna have to run 5'x5'x5' tents just to make room for the adaptors and extractors, which then opens up the option to run 1kw instead of 600 to make up for the extra work. I've never ran 1kw bulbs with this kind of clearance, but fwiw, I do run multiple layers of trellis, and I still have 600's I can run if things go awry.
More embarrassingly rudimentary sketchups to come..
I'm still curious as to whether or not this reflector is really going to be as effective at removing heat as a standard 8" cooltube would be, seeing as how close the bulb is to the glass on the low profile unit, and I'll also more than likely have to solder up some custom oval to round adaptors for a perfectly custom fit so that the vent is simply accepted into the duct at either end of the rail, but.. unless anyone has any better ideas.. I'm pretty set on the low pro. I still have 6 weeks left on the current cycle, but I want to get everything ordered and staged for assembly so that I'm ready to roll come day 1.
Oh, and since the f'n reflector is 4'x4'.. I'm gonna have to run 5'x5'x5' tents just to make room for the adaptors and extractors, which then opens up the option to run 1kw instead of 600 to make up for the extra work. I've never ran 1kw bulbs with this kind of clearance, but fwiw, I do run multiple layers of trellis, and I still have 600's I can run if things go awry.
More embarrassingly rudimentary sketchups to come..
Bobby Boucher
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Mounted the cooltube to the unistrut with trolleys, mounted the unistrut to the ceiling joist using unistrut splices designed to allow the trolleys to pass through. Attached a couple 6" boosters on either side of a 6" cooltube and it all slides cleanly in and out of the preexisting 8" vent ports. Takes all of 2 minutes to move between tents. In case anyone was even remotely interested. Sorry, not sorry for the inverted photos.
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