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michomikhail said:

price is based on what i had to buy and alot of this stuff you can find around your house but if you had to buy everthing it would be around 30$


Items needed
-2 double sided horizontal sockets(pic #1)-5$ at menards
-4 y socket adapters-6$ from menards
-1 reflective metal serving trayto fit grow space-2$ at the goodwill
-8 cfl lightbulbs- 10$ at menards( i use 23 w bulbs)
-2 ft of 1x2 board or simalar scrap wood-0$-2$ depending if your using scrap or not
-1 wired plug
-2 hooks for hanging light
-small peice of plywood at least 6 inches wide

first off you need to figure out where to drill the holes in your reflector for the wired sockets.(make sure your light bulbs arent to close and make sure they fit).

once you have drilled the holes you attach the sockets to the the reflector and add your y sockets when every you feel like it.

next you cut your 1x2 in 2 even sections and place on top of your light on each side and make sure they are evenly placed on top so the light is balanced and attach with screws from the undersude of light so you dont have anything protruding twords the light bulbs. i used 1/2 inch metal screw.

next you need to wire the sockets up to the wired plug so you can cover it up in the next step and to do this you just attach the 2 white wires to one of the wires from your plug and the 2 black wires with the other. if you have a ground from your plug then just attach it to the reflector.(you can test your wiring now to make sure it works)

next take your plywood and cut it so you can place it over the 2 1x2 and secure it to cover expose wires. i drilled a hole in the center of the plywood and fed the wired plug through that but not neccesary.

now that you have the plywood attached you can attach the hooks you have for hanging on each side of the plywood .

congratulations! you have just made an 8 socket cfl light now just add your lightbulbs of the proper spectrum and grow your little heart out.


the second pic is the best one that i have of my light.

this is better than hanging your cfls at an angle since cfls put out more light when place horizontally. any questions just ask ill give some advice

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shoemaker said:

i was dumpster divin for some shelving i spotted, found an old santa clause for the front yard, a display blow up thingy. soooo, i dug for the blower, far out, it is a double squirrel cage blower with 2 outlets, a vacum cleaner hose for output. i got it, rigged it for a fresh air supply for my 2 flower boxes, works great. they have a wire that connects the elec. to both motors run seperately, so u could run just one side, and have a switch for the other. cheap parts to grow with, i love it!!!

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ThaBigBinkk said:

saying somthing now so when i come back from out of town on friday i can post some pics of my homemade Cool tube with exhaust thats attached to a 400 watt mh that i'll be using a conversion bulb in as well for a 2' x 2' x 5' Mother Room thats in an enclosed bedroom closet for a strain of my own that i have concocted out of a batch of 13 mixed bagseeds males and females, they were everything from just some reg bought off the street to some old school purple haze x kush cross.. So i call it Lucky 13 go figure right. you might ask how and why 13 plants idk i got bored one day over 11 months ago and wanted to do something along the lines of make my own lmao.. i was surprised that more than 3/4 of the first set of crossed plants even survived, 3 plants left and the haze x kush so 4 now with the second set, they all made it, 3rd set had 2 plants, they made babies now here i am.

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michomikhail said:

price is based on what i had to buy and alot of this stuff you can find around your house but if you had to buy everthing it would be around 30$


Items needed
-2 double sided horizontal sockets(pic #1)-5$ at menards
-4 y socket adapters-6$ from menards
-1 reflective metal serving trayto fit grow space-2$ at the goodwill
-8 cfl lightbulbs- 10$ at menards( i use 23 w bulbs)
-2 ft of 1x2 board or simalar scrap wood-0$-2$ depending if your using scrap or not
-1 wired plug
-2 hooks for hanging light
-small peice of plywood at least 6 inches wide

first off you need to figure out where to drill the holes in your reflector for the wired sockets.(make sure your light bulbs arent to close and make sure they fit).

once you have drilled the holes you attach the sockets to the the reflector and add your y sockets when every you feel like it.

next you cut your 1x2 in 2 even sections and place on top of your light on each side and make sure they are evenly placed on top so the light is balanced and attach with screws from the undersude of light so you dont have anything protruding twords the light bulbs. i used 1/2 inch metal screw.

next you need to wire the sockets up to the wired plug so you can cover it up in the next step and to do this you just attach the 2 white wires to one of the wires from your plug and the 2 black wires with the other. if you have a ground from your plug then just attach it to the reflector.(you can test your wiring now to make sure it works)

next take your plywood and cut it so you can place it over the 2 1x2 and secure it to cover expose wires. i drilled a hole in the center of the plywood and fed the wired plug through that but not neccesary.

now that you have the plywood attached you can attach the hooks you have for hanging on each side of the plywood .

congratulations! you have just made an 8 socket cfl light now just add your lightbulbs of the proper spectrum and grow your little heart out.


the second pic is the best one that i have of my light.

this is better than hanging your cfls at an angle since cfls put out more light when place horizontally. any questions just ask ill give some advice

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• 6 2700k CFL's
• 1 5500k
• 1 6500k
• 3 light socket to AC adaptors
• 3 light socket Y splitters
• 2 6" and 1 2" computer fans with associated power supply
• 1 light timer
• 1 emergency blanket
• 1 6" by 1/2" wood board
• some foil for light reflector
• 2 torn apart lamps
• 1 AK-47 clone
• and 1 Half-stack amp to put it all in

B2K said:

Items Used:

• 6 2700k CFL's
• 1 5500k
• 1 6500k
• 3 light socket to AC adaptors
• 3 light socket Y splitters
• 2 6" and 1 2" computer fans with associated power supply
• 1 light timer
• 1 emergency blanket
• 1 6" by 1/2" wood board
• some foil for light reflector
• 2 torn apart lamps
• 1 AK-47 clone
• and 1 Half-stack amp to put it all in

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MatanuskaValley said:

That bud looks damn dense for CFL's you must be doing everything right!! Great job man!

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marijuananation said:

THE GROW-FRIGERATOR
I started by removing everything from the fridge the compressor, all of the copper tubing and that radiator off the back, the interior lights, removing the freezer fan cover, but leaving the fan. When i was all done doing this i started cutting an opening from the freezer to the fridge with the saws-all and then what I did to separate the two from the heat of the 400 watt HPS was I took one of the shelves that just happened to be glass, and I stripped off the rack bars and fit it into the bottom of the freezer I was not worried about totally sealing the glass because my next step was taking a really powerful fan that I bought at walmart last year, that I have been using for the past few grows I cut a hole into the bottom of the fridge and placed the fan into the void. I sealed the area around the fan on the inside of the fridge to ensure a solid seal from the bottom intake fan was formed.., for the exhaust fan I just used the old freezer fan that was still functional.
I took out the radiator behind the fan to give me more of an air trap. I turned the fan around so it was blowing air towards the back of the freezer and re secured it to the same placement it was originally, minus the reverse fan placement. I simply drilled two, 2" holes at the back where the fan was blowing the hot air into the air trap, so that it could exhaust.
So far everything is going great, temperatures are 79 constant with the light on, and the temps can go lower if needed !!

CHECK IT OUT HERE: 400-watt-hps-fridge-grow MY CURRENT GROW!!

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ColoradoLove said:

I used the wire shoe racks you can get for $7 at Target, cut the centers out so I could recess the DWC res. The power strips can each hold up to 4 bulbs(8 total) You can keep adding the racks (increases light height off the plants 6") so you could realistically veg with this rack up to 18" pretty easily.

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