Setting up closet

[dutchmasters420]

I've got some plants started in a rubbermaid till I get my real set up going. I have a closet with sliding doors, I put a peice of dry wall real quick just to seperate halfs of the closet, one half I need for clothes(just old clothes I dont really wear so I'm not worried about them stinking) the other half for my plants. I want to put a 400 in their. So this is what I plan on doing, just want to double check before I spend a bunch of money. 400 hanging from my closet bar, stanley blower with the mod sucking out air out from a duct and blowing it in my bedroom(maybe a filter, ill figure that out later). A couple passive intake holes with ducting to light proof. Should this be alright? Heres a quick picture I amde, this whole thing is gonna be covered by sliding doors.

 

[The Dopest]

lookin good!


aaactually, i would put the fan on the shelf above the light and add the duct to the exhaust of the fan exiting the closet. keep the passive intakes as is.

 

[Guest]

Don't you have an attic you can exhaust your hot air to?You dont want it blowing into your bedroom.

 

[NorCal]

ive got a 400 in a cold 6x6ish bathroom and w/ door closed and 4" exhaust going out and it peaks out @ 78 it also has an abnormally high ceiling, like 12-14' tall

I also ave a friend who is doing the same as you and his temps are about 82 ish but he has no intake /outtake, anything over a 400 might be too hot/ unless you got a window in your room as youll be sitting in a heater if all that warm air is going straight to your room (not being able to escape) and if it doesnt get out itll probably increase the room temps overall and be counter pproductive, even opening the bedroom door will help w/ the temps

luckily for me I have a crawl space so im exhausting everything into there and im running lots of light (over 100wpsf)

if I wasnt trying to run so much wattage in such a smalll space I'd get into the 4' t5's and use a bunch of them (if $$$ wasnt an issue either) then youd eliminate the heat altogether, try to keep the ballasts in the main bedroom also as it will def help, hth good luck

 

[Guest]

You could extend the hose I had to to get it up into my attic although that is a high damn ceiling!

 

[dutchmasters420]

I can't vent it to the attic because my bedroom is on the first floor and its a two story hosue with no attic. I figured i should vent it into my bedroom because i always have the window cracked and if needed to i ahve a bunch of windows in this room, and during the warmer months the a/c is on 24/7. My whole point of doing this is I want a real grow, not a little flourescent thing thats gonna cost just as much, and I'll deff be keeping the ballast in the main bedroom.

 

[NorCal]

if what ive read is right....lumens taken in to consideration 2 4' t5 8bulbs put out as much initially as about 2k of hps/mh the average (consistent) lumen output however is about the same as 1k hps/mh and no heat. theyd be able to be like 3" away from the plants and that helps with internodal spacing and to achieve better canopy penetration, so IMHO the t5's would be a way better choice and would probably yield better bud than a 400,