The last three seconds really make the video work, lol 
Will do when I return home in a bit 11 days or so.
Thanks for sharing 
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HotPocketz
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Part 3 - Veg
With flowering taken care of, let’s turn our attention toward the veg room. Since I decided against running a perpetual, I don’t need much room in here. Basically, this will be a place to keep my mothers and some clones. The plan is to keep mothers in two-gallon fabric pots and stack them vertically on shelves. Each shelf will have some Bridgelux eb gen2 strips over them and hold two standard 10" x 20" garden trays. Each tray holds two of the pots, leaving me with about 12 mothers at any given time.
An oscillating fan for circulation and a 4" exhaust fan to keep smell down. I debated simply pulling the exhaust though the veg room. I have had good luck with this in the previous designs.
Workshop - version 2.10-veg
Inside the veg room, I decided to keep all of the LED drivers and other electronics inside an 24" x 20" electronics enclosure. Each of the SolStick racks is controlled by a HLG-240H-24B (flower) and a HGL-120H-24B (veg) driver. Each driver will have it’s own designated channel on one of the Sonoff 4CH 4-channel along with the outlets and, possibly, a ceiling light in each room. I will need to make room for another power supply for the supplemental spectrum boards and the Bluefish LED controller as well as all the wiring to go along with it. It is going to be a tight fit.
Workshop - version 2.10-veg - electronics enclosure
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I spent some time modeling up the no-till beds. The base 36" x 18" x 3" and is made of 1/4" plywood. The bed itself is 35" x 17" x 12" and is made of fabric with a PVC frame. It should hold about 30 gallons of soil. By using the PVC frame, I can make a ScrOG or a trellis as needed. Here is an example of a trellis at 24" with 4" spacing. This way everything can stay modular and I can move all the plants through the door easily.
36" x 18" no-till bed
Workshop - v2.10 - door clearance
I spent a bit of time trying to [virtually] rearrange the workshop. During the process, I noticed the toolbox and the mini fridge were not really to scale, so I fixed that. Then I went ahead and put in markings for where the doors will open. The only way I could move the workbench from where it is, it really is almost like I made it to fit there, would be for me to switch the flowering and veg rooms. While it does make the door placement much easier to work with in the flower room, the lung room just looks so much more crowded.
Workshop - v2.11.1
Workshop - v2.11.2
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Very cool sketch’s !!!
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Thanks, it really helps to visualize the space. Sure is a lot easier to click a mouse than move that heavy workbench.
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Thanks for your input in Grohlio’s thread!!! Gonna take your advise too!
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That looks great, you could probably hang that on a wall as geometric art, someone would look at it for years and not realize what it is 
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That must of took you a lot of time to draw all this up. It looks great. I can’t wait to see you go from virtual photos to actual photos of the area done.
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Great to see the evolution of your thoughts and the process on setting up this new space. looks like a great design
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Yeah, a lot of these are pretty old. I’ve been planning this for a while.
Probably over engineered like most things I end up doing. 
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Nothing wrong with a bit of over engineering. i’m really liking the flowering room and the no till beds. I just started experimenting about a week ago with a SWICK on my no till and am so far happy with the results.
I used lava rock for wicking and sat the fabric pot on top and so far so good the girls responded really well and I can see a much more even and optimized mositure level.
How do you plan on watering?
This is gonna be one helluva room! Just curious, why not fully removable ‘hatches’ rather than swinging doors? You could take one off at a time and put it to the side then no worries about that pita…
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I will continue watering by hand with my Chapin concrete sprayer.
I hadn’t considered hatches, but I would prefer it to look more like extended closet space and less like a grow space.
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Wow! Those are some great ideas
I cant wait to see it when the lights go on.sounds like maximum sufficiency for an area like yours. Great work so far.
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A staple in the no till garden 
Take a look at this set up
[Noobwannb’s Self Wicking Smartpot ghetto setup](Noobwannb’s Self Wicking Smartpot ghetto setup)
I imagine it would make watering a breeze and keep an optimal moisture level in your beds
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Yeah, I’m familiar with SIP/SWICK bud I honestly love spending time with the plants. I would get bored with an automated system like SIP, SWICK, Blumats, etc. Hydro bored the shit out of me, two hours or less a week in the garden?
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Spent some time looking at the specs for ventilation. First let’s look at the flower room. The flower room is 4’ x 6’ x 7’, so that works out to 168 cubic feet. Since I wont be using CO2, I should try and hit two air changes per minute, or 336 CFM. The room will be powered by a maximum of 1200 watts of LED lighting. Borrowing the calculations for HPS from the Ventilation 101 thread on ICMag, I need about 380 CFM to maintain a 10° F temperature difference. Those calculations are for HPS, but a watt is a watt right?
The AC Infinity Cloudline T6 is capable of 402 CFM, while the T8 is capable of 740 CFM. At first, the AC Infinity Cloudline T6 seems more suited for my space than the T8. There are a couple of issues with using the T6 which was brought up by @Jellypowered and @Mr.Sparkle. First issue, is the loss of CFM due to a filter. The Cloudline series doesn’t have a whole lot of static pressure. The second issue is running the T6 all of the time at full speed instead of running the T8 at a lower speed. Finally the difference in cost. Buying the T8 is about $50 USD more, but if I bought a T6 then needed to buy a T8 I would have to spend about $200 USD more. That’s just for the fan, not considering the cost of the filter.
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Dont believe recommendations on cfms required. Yer plants dont need nething close 2that 2 perform at a high level. Kinda like ppfd. Same fer DLI. Same fer temps.
Better 2 worry bout coolin & humidity control than cfms.
My cloudline set 2 high humidity monitorin cuz temps also has alarm settings that werx independent. Brings my spaces down 2 specified rh in a min err less at fan speed 1.
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