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Hi guys,
Long time reader first time poster!
So it's my first post here but I've been watching for many years.
I'm about to embark on building my first purpose built room and thought I would throw it in here to get some feedback prior to starting to order some hardware.
I'm experienced in hydro (water culture) Never had roots in anything but water and have run a few vertical light flooded tube systems and looking for something that scales up better with a lower plant count and embarking on a first time CGE environment.
Please forgive me if some of my imperial measurements are off as I'm in a metric country with 230v
I'd like feedback or concerns on any items mentioned and appreciate all of your time.
The Room.
To be built 15'6 x 15'6 x 7 ft Timber framed lined with plywood and insulated with R3.4 insulation. Painted in flat white mould & moisture resistant paint. Flooring is concrete slab polished.
The room will be supplied with 3 x 50 amp 230v feeds with AC running across 2 feeds and 3 lights on each with ancillary items run off the feed not supplying the AC.
Cooling
I will be cooling with 2 x Toshiba 12.5kw (42k btu I think) cassette heat pumps mounted in the ceiling. (Providiing redundancy) I will be leaving this running through the night to maintain specific night temperature and to provide dehumidifying capability. Night temperatures will require the units to heat. Day target of 78f night target of 68f
Hydro
I'm looking to go for the UCDB16XXL13 this would be changed to run 45" centers and be chilled by 2 x 1/4hp chillers plumbed in parallel on the double barrel lines. I will be running dual pumps either side of the double barrel and carry a spare 1/4 hp chiller for the event of a failure and will be insulating the piping in neoprene foam. Media will be hydroton.
Lamps
I will be running 9 x vertically hung bare bulb 1000w lamps. Metal Halide for veg & HPS I plan to veg in the UC straight from Aero. - Digital Ballasts. These are to be hung so that each light is surrounded by 4 plants. Some plants will have les light as only one side is lit being on the outside. But I'm sure you guys can figure out what I mean.
Co2
Is to be supplied by 70lb Food grade tanks and controlled by a Superpro carbon B1 Analog controller (same as the hydrofarm autopilot analog unit ) which will be reference checked by a secondary display. I plan to pump 1500 ppm once roots pop in the UC till week 1 flower then 1800 ppm till the day I turn the lights off.
Nutrients.
I'm limited on what is available so I can only run the Canna A + B and may have a bloom booster available to me. I will be running the suggested EC by CCHh20. and shooting for a 65f temp target.
Water
50ppm from the tap and will be recovered from the AC. Reservoir will be a 1000L tank I mix the next weeks nutrient on and be float level fed into the UC epicenter.
Carbon filters 2 x 800 cfm.
Plants will be trained into game fencing surrounding each UC module.
My goal is to average 1 1/4 # per site. But I think that I should smash that. I'm planning to Veg 12" Crtitical + 2.0 clones for 16 - 18 days lit by 1000w and with 1500 ppm co2.
Once again all of your feedback is welcomed.
Sticky.
Long time reader first time poster!
So it's my first post here but I've been watching for many years.
I'm about to embark on building my first purpose built room and thought I would throw it in here to get some feedback prior to starting to order some hardware.
I'm experienced in hydro (water culture) Never had roots in anything but water and have run a few vertical light flooded tube systems and looking for something that scales up better with a lower plant count and embarking on a first time CGE environment.
Please forgive me if some of my imperial measurements are off as I'm in a metric country with 230v
I'd like feedback or concerns on any items mentioned and appreciate all of your time.
The Room.
To be built 15'6 x 15'6 x 7 ft Timber framed lined with plywood and insulated with R3.4 insulation. Painted in flat white mould & moisture resistant paint. Flooring is concrete slab polished.
The room will be supplied with 3 x 50 amp 230v feeds with AC running across 2 feeds and 3 lights on each with ancillary items run off the feed not supplying the AC.
Cooling
I will be cooling with 2 x Toshiba 12.5kw (42k btu I think) cassette heat pumps mounted in the ceiling. (Providiing redundancy) I will be leaving this running through the night to maintain specific night temperature and to provide dehumidifying capability. Night temperatures will require the units to heat. Day target of 78f night target of 68f
Hydro
I'm looking to go for the UCDB16XXL13 this would be changed to run 45" centers and be chilled by 2 x 1/4hp chillers plumbed in parallel on the double barrel lines. I will be running dual pumps either side of the double barrel and carry a spare 1/4 hp chiller for the event of a failure and will be insulating the piping in neoprene foam. Media will be hydroton.
Lamps
I will be running 9 x vertically hung bare bulb 1000w lamps. Metal Halide for veg & HPS I plan to veg in the UC straight from Aero. - Digital Ballasts. These are to be hung so that each light is surrounded by 4 plants. Some plants will have les light as only one side is lit being on the outside. But I'm sure you guys can figure out what I mean.
Co2
Is to be supplied by 70lb Food grade tanks and controlled by a Superpro carbon B1 Analog controller (same as the hydrofarm autopilot analog unit ) which will be reference checked by a secondary display. I plan to pump 1500 ppm once roots pop in the UC till week 1 flower then 1800 ppm till the day I turn the lights off.
Nutrients.
I'm limited on what is available so I can only run the Canna A + B and may have a bloom booster available to me. I will be running the suggested EC by CCHh20. and shooting for a 65f temp target.
Water
50ppm from the tap and will be recovered from the AC. Reservoir will be a 1000L tank I mix the next weeks nutrient on and be float level fed into the UC epicenter.
Carbon filters 2 x 800 cfm.
Plants will be trained into game fencing surrounding each UC module.
My goal is to average 1 1/4 # per site. But I think that I should smash that. I'm planning to Veg 12" Crtitical + 2.0 clones for 16 - 18 days lit by 1000w and with 1500 ppm co2.
Once again all of your feedback is welcomed.
Sticky.