greenblood
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Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy the photos, the ideas, and please by all means leave me some good advice
I'm still green at this (har har) and I'm not in it for anything more than the fun of it, so investment capital is light and DIY ideas are most definitely welcome. That said, I'm excited about the good info I've already learned and will try to do my best all the way through!
The Idea:
I have two floor speakers that reside in the living room on either side of the TV. They are used infrequently. They are only 22" tall, 16" wide and 8" deep, but that's huge compared to my tiny Mac case I've currently got rigged up! I want to try to get at least one floor speaker up and running, and focus mainly on stealth. If I cannot get it quiet enough and light proof enough to run in the living room, I will pretty much have to scrap the idea!
Unfortunately, spending $400+ on LED lights, which might be great for this application, is still not feasible at this time. Right now I want to run at least 4 27w cfl bulbs and need to figure out how much air I will need to move in order to keep it cool enough. I will also need to keep the intake and exhaust points from becoming light leaks.
I was playing around with Google sketch and came up with a simple idea, but which can probably be much better. Who has other ideas?
OK, you're looking at a simple, not-to-scale model of a speakerbox, without the front panel, speakers, or grill. Inside at the top is where I've mocked up a light baffle (is that what you call it?). The two green areas are where I would install fans, which would pull air from the grow chamber into the maze above. The rest of the maze would have a floor panel flush with these fans, but I've left it out of the model. The front of the maze and speakerbox would also be sealed, of course. Air would travel in through the green fans, above the blue panels, then sideways under the gray panels that run parallel to the sides of the box, back above the next blue panels, under the yellow panels and then is exhausted out the rear of the speakerbox.
I think that there are enough angles to block the light, but I've never built something like this so let me know if you have any thoughts. I also think I could leave enough room where the air exhausts on either side to add ONA blocks or carbon filters. However, I'm concerned that two 5" fans will not be enough exhaust for a box this size.
Happy Sunday, everybody, have a good afternoon!