NorCalHal
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It's been a while since I posted any of my projects, so I thought I would share my new adventure.
Long story short, I inherited this room from a cat that just couldn't quite pull it off.
What I inherited are 2, 12' x 30 rooms side by side, shotgun style. Both rooms have their own 5 ton ac and 180 pint dehu's for each room. When he left, he took almost everything except the hoods, ac's and dehu's. I had to replace everything else pretty much.
First, I will start out with the electrical. The main panel is a 200 amp 3 phase panel. This gives me PLENTY of amperage to play with. The electrical had to be redone as I just didn't trust his wiring for such a big show. I went with 14 lights in each room fired by a 3phase contactor, with a 110 trigger. I could have went with a flip box, but I really wasn't sure how I was going to run the rooms as far as timing. Being such a big elec panel, it didn't matter, the whole show can run at anytime I choose.
The AC units are also 3phase, ran on 3 phase breakers.
3 phase rocks!
The outlet bank for the lights are wired so you know exactally what "phase" each and every light is pulling from. Any electricians reading this will appreciate this. The main panel is PERFECTLY balanced!
I replaced all his ballasts with Nanolux Digi's. I have been running these for a bit and they have given me no problems, so I went with them. Love my digi's!
The dehu's are Idealair's, which are what I would not have chosen. I prefer Santa Fe's line of dehu's, as they run much more efficient, but that was the card I was dealt. Down the road, I may change them over, but they work for now.
So, in each room are 2 strings of 7 lights, being air cooled by a 10" max fan. Each light string has it's own max fan cooling 7 lights. Works great.
He had 8 lights per string, but I found that way overkill and took 1 light out of each string, as they were just not needed.
The rooms are completely sealed. Dude went crazy when he built the room and must have used cases of spray foam to seal it up. All good.
The tables are custom made. They are built on castors, so I can move the whole table around while I do work as needed. With the rooms so narrow, being able to move the tables around a bit is a huge help.
The top of the tables are corrugated plastic, built with a slight downward slope to direct all runoff into a drain bucket. I like to get around %20 runoff when I feed.
a 1000 gpd RO fills a 300 gallon container for all the water I could ever need.
CO2 burners are set up and controlled by a Sentinel Controller.
It's been a long 5-6 weeks, but everything is up and runnin'.
Enjoy!
Long story short, I inherited this room from a cat that just couldn't quite pull it off.
What I inherited are 2, 12' x 30 rooms side by side, shotgun style. Both rooms have their own 5 ton ac and 180 pint dehu's for each room. When he left, he took almost everything except the hoods, ac's and dehu's. I had to replace everything else pretty much.
First, I will start out with the electrical. The main panel is a 200 amp 3 phase panel. This gives me PLENTY of amperage to play with. The electrical had to be redone as I just didn't trust his wiring for such a big show. I went with 14 lights in each room fired by a 3phase contactor, with a 110 trigger. I could have went with a flip box, but I really wasn't sure how I was going to run the rooms as far as timing. Being such a big elec panel, it didn't matter, the whole show can run at anytime I choose.
The AC units are also 3phase, ran on 3 phase breakers.
3 phase rocks!
The outlet bank for the lights are wired so you know exactally what "phase" each and every light is pulling from. Any electricians reading this will appreciate this. The main panel is PERFECTLY balanced!
I replaced all his ballasts with Nanolux Digi's. I have been running these for a bit and they have given me no problems, so I went with them. Love my digi's!
The dehu's are Idealair's, which are what I would not have chosen. I prefer Santa Fe's line of dehu's, as they run much more efficient, but that was the card I was dealt. Down the road, I may change them over, but they work for now.
So, in each room are 2 strings of 7 lights, being air cooled by a 10" max fan. Each light string has it's own max fan cooling 7 lights. Works great.
He had 8 lights per string, but I found that way overkill and took 1 light out of each string, as they were just not needed.
The rooms are completely sealed. Dude went crazy when he built the room and must have used cases of spray foam to seal it up. All good.
The tables are custom made. They are built on castors, so I can move the whole table around while I do work as needed. With the rooms so narrow, being able to move the tables around a bit is a huge help.
The top of the tables are corrugated plastic, built with a slight downward slope to direct all runoff into a drain bucket. I like to get around %20 runoff when I feed.
a 1000 gpd RO fills a 300 gallon container for all the water I could ever need.
CO2 burners are set up and controlled by a Sentinel Controller.
It's been a long 5-6 weeks, but everything is up and runnin'.
Enjoy!
I would love to be a tender for you if I was anywhere near you. 
