Cabinet build

[marinelife]

I have started building the cabinet that will go on the end of the tank to house all my food, electric, ballast, CA Reactor and more.

I will post pictures soon.

[marinelife]

Here are some pictures. I built the cabinet out of left over wood so it is not the greatest.

I will be adding doors to the top area. The bottom is for the chiller so it needs to stay open. The middle section (first shelf) is for my CA Reactor and CO2 Tank, the shelf above that will hold food and other supplies.

The top will hold my ballast. I also hope to move my electrical to the cabinet and the RO/DI unit.

The whole you see will most likely be covered tomorrow.

[marinelife]

Second coat is on the inside, will do the outside later today or tomorrow.

[TechGuy40]

Is this for the Plywood tank? Looks good!

[marinelife]

It will be used on my current tank until I get the other one done if that ever happens.

[marinelife]

Finally almost there, I need to move the electric then push it nack against the wall.

[TechGuy40]

Looks good. Wish I could work with wood, but I can't cut anything straight.

[chromiumlux]

Looks like a real nice system ya got there Eric.

[marinelife]

Thanks, maybe soon I will be the canopy and cabinet finished :)

[marinelife]

Tomorrow seems like a good day to get the electric moved to the cabinent. Should be fun, hopefully I turn off the right breakers!

[chromiumlux]

Well, you'll certainly know if you didn't. HA HA

[marinelife]

yeah what would suck!

[TechGuy40]

This is mighty ghetto, but I have the same problem with my breaker box not being labeled properly. A piece of thin solder over an outlets terminals will make a nice puff of smoke, and trip the breaker lol.

[marinelife]

The 220 was easy to find!! The 3 110 outlets should be the bottom ones in the breaker box and be marked I hope. I am gonna eat and get started.

[jeremyreef]

check with a meter first :wink:

[marinelife]

All are off and outlets are removed!!
My hardest issue now is getting everyting mounted in the new location, I noticed the board I was gonna use is not straight but I have another one to look at.

[TechGuy40]

check with a meter first :wink:


Pshh. Thats the hard way! If your lazy, and don't want to run up and down the steps, and end up restarting all the computers my way works best. Not exactly safe though.

[marinelife]

Well almost finished. Just have to tie up a few more cables. Here is what it looks like so far, I need to paint it sometime as well.

I had the breaker box labeled so no issues finding the right ones!!

[rayviv]

Thats what I need

[marinelife]

I will get some more pictures here soon. I have most of it cleaned up or atleast better than when it was under the tank.

[TechGuy40]

I wish I could do wood work. Hell, I can't even measure anything without screwing it up lol. A carpenter I am not...

[marinelife]

My skills are not the greatest but it gets the job done.