Grow Room Dreamberry Auto Rubbermaid Grow/light-trap problems.

[PapaEmeritus]

If your problem is the assembly, you could replace the slots with holes. Like that:


View attachment 645365 It would probably be easier to assemble. Build a box out of cardboard and ductapte, make the inserts, punch holes in them, glue them inside the box then make a lid and ductape it when you are finished with the insides of the light trap.

See, that might be the trick. I hadn't thought of doing it like that. Many thanks!

 

[Jimmy McGill]

could make it even easier. Make the box and the lid separately. punch the holes in the box and then make a frame with the pierced inserts that you can slide into the box before closing it. That way,all the glueing/taping would be easy to do.

A frame like this:

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

a simple u shape light trap is easy to make, and as suggested just paint it flat black, having two 90 degree corners is really all that is needed, could even get away with one so long as there is another material like air filter fabric in there as well and your straight section in your trap is at least twice the distance as as the width of the opening at the corner, as i causes teh light to have to bounce a couple times in order to get out.

 

[PapaEmeritus]

Big thanks to @JDoe & @Mr. Sparkle - think I got the light trap sorted.

Gonna get that installed and do a check for any other leaks, then get my bean cracked & planted and start this journal for real. Watch this space!!

 

[PapaEmeritus]

Gods, if it's not one thing it's another. Got the light trap installed night before last, went to give the box a test run for heat/light leaks yesterday morning and most of the tape had started to peel off. Fine, no problem. Went to the store, bought Gorilla tape, stripped off the old stuff & re-taped everything down. Set it aside so I could run some errands.
Came back, tape is holding, nice! Put the lights in, plugged everything up to my timer/power strip and...no exhaust fan.

Fiddled around for awhile and found the likely problem but by the time I did my back was hurting too badly to do anything but medicate and call it a night.

I was just able to get back to it again a few minutes ago. Now, not only does the fan *still* not work - now three out of the four lights won't turn on. There's obviously power to the strip, and all of the components worked fine when I tested them upon delivery.

So, this grow journal might not happen. Thanks to my back acting up my ability to work on this thing has been super limited and at this point I kinda want to just drag it into my driveway and set it on fire. Hopefully I'll have something to report soon, but at this point who knows.

 

[PapaEmeritus]

Alright, this journal's a dud. Thanks to those that commented with help/ideas for the light trap - I just couldn't get this cab build to work out and decided to pull the trigger on a tent and some LED's. Gonna see if I can have this deleted or locked up. Sorry folks!