This is a summary of how I built my indoor grow space. The room is 7’ x 12’. I lined the walls and ceiling with reflective mylar. Pretty much the same thing they use for tents but without the outer canvas layer. Sealed the seams and ran separate 220 lines for lights and HVAC. Ran multiple 110v outlets on their own 20A breakers around the room. Let me just say that it functions beyond my expectations once I learned how to use the Trolmaster system. It was a bit pricey and definitely overkill for my space, but it produces fantastic results and only gets better from here!
Equipment list below. Pics to follow
Equipment:
Exhaust: Ruck Air Movement 8-In. S-Prime EVO EC 747 CFM Mixed Flow Inline Fan
Intake: 6" inline fan feeding duct feeding into room opposite dehumidifier.
Dehumidifier: Quest Dual 110 overhead Dehumidifier
Humidifier: Ideal Air commercial humidifier with water line
HVAC: Pioneer Diamante Ultra Mini-split with heat pump
Lights: 2 4x6 ft Grow Pro Dragrow LED 1350w each with UV, IR, Far Red. Capable of 1530 ppfd each. They fill the available footprint in the room perfectly and completely.
6 bar Floraflex under canopy lights with far red
Irrigation: Floraflex microdrip with drainage bases plumbed to floor drain
Main Controller: Trolmaster Hydro-x Plus with PAR meter and single combo sensor. Running DLI
Irrigation Controller: Trolmaster Aqua-x plus (not yet being used. soon though) Currently using B-Hyve timer, Orbit pump relay, and Leader in line jet pump Using 2 55 gallon drums for RO water and nutrient tank. Hydrologic Reverse Osmosis water with de chlorination filter
CO2: 2 Burner CO2 running off of natural gas
Air Circulation: 2 8" wall mount cage fans 2 feet from floor on opposite long walls and facing each other for circular air flow. 3 16" Active Air oscillating fans above the canopy
Hell yea man that sounds awesome! After I built out my irrigation system what you’ve done is my eventual goal for my space. Hope you can grow some fire in there.
First set up. I would have used panda film had I known of it. Learning curve. It is as sealed as I can make it and it keeps a little negative pressure. It does have a minimum night time intake/ exhaust to turn over the air. I have since used panda film in my drying room and replace a section in the flower room. I got a really good buy on that mylar as I recall
It stays within the deadband. Its set to 2% and the setpoint for humidifier is 1 point below the dehumidifier. It pretty much stays wherever I set it. Dialing in the smart features of the mini split to regulate temps before lights on and off to minimize spikes
It does really well. Very flat data trend over time and the daily, weekly and monthly averages are dead nuts to my setpoint. It’s spot on really. All credit goes to the Trolmaster controller though. It does a really awesome job once you figure out how to use it. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass and the instructions are garbage
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