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This is the start of my Indoor Adventure… After many years of impromptu uncontrolled closet grows and fighting the elements and insects outdoors I decided to get serious about setting up an indoor space. I have my growbro @Green Goblin to thank for the advice and validation on some of this and basically encouraging me.
The biggest issue I had was where and how big a tent?
After a lot of debate and searching around the house for a good acceptable location I ended up organizing my garage which needed to be done anyway. I was leaning toward a 3x3x6 and then realized 4x4x8 would be better and allow me to use my existing 315w CMH light.
What Tent to buy?
I looked at a bunch of tents and came to a personal conclusion that the AC Infinity had good reviews, wasn't strapped for $$ and allowed me to kind of go with a one stop shop. I purchased it off AMZN with a discount coupon and saved on the shipping as well as there is no sales tax in my state.
Lighting
I ran around and around on this because I wanted to use my existing 315W CMH and not break the bank on a 4x4 size commercial grade LED. So I went with what I know already works well. 315 CMH will be center tent & stationary and will off set this with 4 Cobshop.net autocobs that will be placed further out around the CMH and can be adjusted as needed up and down. So when I pre-cabled the electrical in the conopy of the tent I made sure to leave a 5 gang electrical plug above the CMH for the 4 COBs and also the power for the T6 fan.
COB............COB
.........CMH..........
COB............COB
Ventilation
Kind of a no brainer and purchased the Ac Infinity T6 Inline fan and 6" Charcoal scrubber at the time I purchased the tent. The T6 comes with a controller which is pretty nice. I was under the impression the 67 Controller was bluetooth enabled and has an App for the iPhone but its manual might indicate conflicting information. So I have a msg into tech-support to figure out what its not working with the app. Otherwise it seems to work just fine and integrates with the T6 fan and power. If you disconnect the controller from the fan the fan goes to 100%. I also purchased a couple clip on fans that were cheap but you get what you pay for and they will be short lived until AC Infinity comes out with the adjustable oscillating fan for the tent. If needed I have other spares that will suffice. I prefer to simulate that outdoor airflow to strengthen the stems on the plants because that mean a lot less training and support I will have to do in the log run.
Grow Space
I found a section of the garage next to the meat freezer that works well. Here in the PNW my garage stays pretty cool year round and to prevent the concrete floor from transferring too much of that cold I used a purple 1/8" rubber yoga mat underneath to help insulate the setup from the extreme winter cold.
Setup
I will have to say the setup is pretty easy with the AC products and their manuals are very well done. Just make sure you have a lot of space to open the tent up. I made sure to cable and tie everything up really well from the get go so that once the everything is running I won't have any issues I can't deal with. I put Five 3gal RainScience grow bags into the tent with some cheap plastic overflow trays and filled them with my live soil that was outdoors in my tote. I did a light watering so I can establish humidity and temp for the tent and get the baseline going with I mess with the controllers settings.
Baseline
This went pretty fast and setup the temp and humidity based on the current configuration with just the CMH light. The Cob's are in route and will redo the baseline settings. But for right now the tent is running about 66F and have the temp range set on the controller to 64-75F and the Humidity at 45-65%. I set the controller to Auto so its doing a great job balancing the fan speed to keep everything in check. I have checked it every couple hours the past two days.
You can see the photo's I have attached and nice RED band the CMH throws off.
The biggest issue I had was where and how big a tent?
After a lot of debate and searching around the house for a good acceptable location I ended up organizing my garage which needed to be done anyway. I was leaning toward a 3x3x6 and then realized 4x4x8 would be better and allow me to use my existing 315w CMH light.
What Tent to buy?
I looked at a bunch of tents and came to a personal conclusion that the AC Infinity had good reviews, wasn't strapped for $$ and allowed me to kind of go with a one stop shop. I purchased it off AMZN with a discount coupon and saved on the shipping as well as there is no sales tax in my state.
Lighting
I ran around and around on this because I wanted to use my existing 315W CMH and not break the bank on a 4x4 size commercial grade LED. So I went with what I know already works well. 315 CMH will be center tent & stationary and will off set this with 4 Cobshop.net autocobs that will be placed further out around the CMH and can be adjusted as needed up and down. So when I pre-cabled the electrical in the conopy of the tent I made sure to leave a 5 gang electrical plug above the CMH for the 4 COBs and also the power for the T6 fan.
COB............COB
.........CMH..........
COB............COB
Ventilation
Kind of a no brainer and purchased the Ac Infinity T6 Inline fan and 6" Charcoal scrubber at the time I purchased the tent. The T6 comes with a controller which is pretty nice. I was under the impression the 67 Controller was bluetooth enabled and has an App for the iPhone but its manual might indicate conflicting information. So I have a msg into tech-support to figure out what its not working with the app. Otherwise it seems to work just fine and integrates with the T6 fan and power. If you disconnect the controller from the fan the fan goes to 100%. I also purchased a couple clip on fans that were cheap but you get what you pay for and they will be short lived until AC Infinity comes out with the adjustable oscillating fan for the tent. If needed I have other spares that will suffice. I prefer to simulate that outdoor airflow to strengthen the stems on the plants because that mean a lot less training and support I will have to do in the log run.
Grow Space
I found a section of the garage next to the meat freezer that works well. Here in the PNW my garage stays pretty cool year round and to prevent the concrete floor from transferring too much of that cold I used a purple 1/8" rubber yoga mat underneath to help insulate the setup from the extreme winter cold.
Setup
I will have to say the setup is pretty easy with the AC products and their manuals are very well done. Just make sure you have a lot of space to open the tent up. I made sure to cable and tie everything up really well from the get go so that once the everything is running I won't have any issues I can't deal with. I put Five 3gal RainScience grow bags into the tent with some cheap plastic overflow trays and filled them with my live soil that was outdoors in my tote. I did a light watering so I can establish humidity and temp for the tent and get the baseline going with I mess with the controllers settings.
Baseline
This went pretty fast and setup the temp and humidity based on the current configuration with just the CMH light. The Cob's are in route and will redo the baseline settings. But for right now the tent is running about 66F and have the temp range set on the controller to 64-75F and the Humidity at 45-65%. I set the controller to Auto so its doing a great job balancing the fan speed to keep everything in check. I have checked it every couple hours the past two days.
You can see the photo's I have attached and nice RED band the CMH throws off.
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