Kaskadian
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Evening all,
I decided to go ahead and get started on this thread a little bit earlier than I had originally planned; I wanted to be able to keep a build diary for both you guys & myself. This thread will be a work in progress but I hope you guys will check in from time to time. Ideally I'd like to make progress as quickly as possible, but sometimes life gets in the way. I'll do my best to update this thread as often as possible.
I'd like to start things off on a personal note; this cabinet is dedicated to those who taught me much of what I know about micro growing and growing in general. In particular I feel it necessary to mention mtnjohn, and pieceofmyheart; they've both been mentors, inspirations, and above all, friends. There have been many others that have helped me over the years, far to many to name. I'd also like to thank all of my new friends here at thcfarmer, and old friends from OG/HG420.
Let's get to it!
This new cabinet will be using a 150w cooltube HPS. I'll be wiring up my own lighting for this cabinet and as suggested by @tobh I will be making a separate thread with a tutorial on wiring your own lighting. I'll post that tutorial up after I get it written up start to finish. Below you'll see pictures for the ballast, ignitor, and capacitor. More parts are needed to wire up the lighting, so I will go into further detail later as I'm getting it all wired up. The wiring you see on the pictures is just to show which wires need to be wired together. I decided to wire up my own lighting because it's cheap and fun. An entire HPS system can be built for under $100 in most cases.
Right now I'm thinking about 36" tall x 28-30" wide x 18-20" deep; this may change as I begin building. I will mostly be scrogging in this cabinet, so after I make a few measurements I'll let you all know what dimensions I planned to go with.
All questions, comments, insults, etc are welcome. Next update coming ASAP. I should be making measurements and making the first cuts before the end of the week.
Kas
I decided to go ahead and get started on this thread a little bit earlier than I had originally planned; I wanted to be able to keep a build diary for both you guys & myself. This thread will be a work in progress but I hope you guys will check in from time to time. Ideally I'd like to make progress as quickly as possible, but sometimes life gets in the way. I'll do my best to update this thread as often as possible.
I'd like to start things off on a personal note; this cabinet is dedicated to those who taught me much of what I know about micro growing and growing in general. In particular I feel it necessary to mention mtnjohn, and pieceofmyheart; they've both been mentors, inspirations, and above all, friends. There have been many others that have helped me over the years, far to many to name. I'd also like to thank all of my new friends here at thcfarmer, and old friends from OG/HG420.
Let's get to it!
This new cabinet will be using a 150w cooltube HPS. I'll be wiring up my own lighting for this cabinet and as suggested by @tobh I will be making a separate thread with a tutorial on wiring your own lighting. I'll post that tutorial up after I get it written up start to finish. Below you'll see pictures for the ballast, ignitor, and capacitor. More parts are needed to wire up the lighting, so I will go into further detail later as I'm getting it all wired up. The wiring you see on the pictures is just to show which wires need to be wired together. I decided to wire up my own lighting because it's cheap and fun. An entire HPS system can be built for under $100 in most cases.
Right now I'm thinking about 36" tall x 28-30" wide x 18-20" deep; this may change as I begin building. I will mostly be scrogging in this cabinet, so after I make a few measurements I'll let you all know what dimensions I planned to go with.
All questions, comments, insults, etc are welcome. Next update coming ASAP. I should be making measurements and making the first cuts before the end of the week.
Kas
