2x4 tent Air conditioning

[marsuzano99]

I live in a studio apt and have a 2x4 tent grow with a little space left in it to hang or put in an ax if it is small. I do not want to run my actual apartment ac, because I want to save as much energy as possible. Do they make any air conditioners that are very tiny that I can just keep in my 2x4 while saving as much space as possible? I really don’t want to get an ac that I vent into it, I want a tiny ac that will stay in my tent if possible. It is my only tent at the moment as well

 

[DaFekHappen]

I live in a studio apt and have a 2x4 tent grow with a little space left in it to hang or put in an ax if it is small. I do not want to run my actual apartment ac, because I want to save as much energy as possible. Do they make any air conditioners that are very tiny that I can just keep in my 2x4 while saving as much space as possible? I really don’t want to get an ac that I vent into it, I want a tiny ac that will stay in my tent if possible. It is my only tent at the moment as well

Hello! The tent is not that bit so a common fan that you usually put on your wall in a living room may do the trick, although you will have to do a bit of math and properly place it so the air flow would be sufficient for the ladies, those fans are not much in terms of energy-consuming and not too expensive by themselves

 

[marsuzano99]

Hello! The tent is not that bit so a common fan that you usually put on your wall in a living room may do the trick, although you will have to do a bit of math and properly place it so the air flow would be sufficient for the ladies, those fans are not much in terms of energy-consuming and not too expensive by themselves

A regular fan? Or a small ac? I was wondering if just blowing enough air around would help but I feel like it wouldn’t if I’m mid flower during a heat wave or something of that sort of intense heat

 

[UnknownRemedy]

A regular fan? Or a small ac? I was wondering if just blowing enough air around would help but I feel like it wouldn’t if I’m mid flower during a heat wave or something of that sort of intense heat

If you're mid heat wave, the most cost efficient thing to do would be run your apartments ac. Running an ac in your tent while the lung room is 80/90/100degrees is just going to make that ac run harder. Same concept with humidity, if your lung room is humid trying to dehumidify the tent is pointless.

Ignoring all of that, a small portable AC is still much too big to fit in a 2x4 tent. Anything smaller is just a fan.

 

[coreywebster]

Nothing small enough would be anything more than a novelty.

You need to extract the heat and humidity with an extraction fan.
There's no way around that in a tent

 

[DOCTORDOOB]

You could always set frozen water bottles around where there's room to set them, but I think they would create moisture and humidity.

 

[Delps8]

I live in a studio apt and have a 2x4 tent grow with a little space left in it to hang or put in an ax if it is small. I do not want to run my actual apartment ac, because I want to save as much energy as possible. Do they make any air conditioners that are very tiny that I can just keep in my 2x4 while saving as much space as possible? I really don’t want to get an ac that I vent into it, I want a tiny ac that will stay in my tent if possible. It is my only tent at the moment as well

No such device.

I have a 2' x 4' tent, as well, and when I tried to grow in the summer, I ended up with a 14k AC unit to AC the entire 20 x 20 garage. A 2' x 4' tent is cramped to begin with but to get a compressor in there and create an enclosure that's big enough to vent heat out means that you can't have a small device.

The best solution to solving the AC problem for a 2 x 4 is the AC Infinity Terraformer. They're out of stock (and will be for a while, I'm sure) and they were priced at $660 when they were (briefly) in stock.

Why do you think that you need to AC your tent?

 

[marsuzano99]

No such device.

I have a 2' x 4' tent, as well, and when I tried to grow in the summer, I ended up with a 14k AC unit to AC the entire 20 x 20 garage. A 2' x 4' tent is cramped to begin with but to get a compressor in there and create an enclosure that's big enough to vent heat out means that you can't have a small device.

The best solution to solving the AC problem for a 2 x 4 is the AC Infinity Terraformer. They're out of stock (and will be for a while, I'm sure) and they were priced at $660 when they were (briefly) in stock.

Why do you think that you need to AC your tent?

High temps since I have a studio apt that receives a lot of sunlight and subsequently high temperatures from the summer blast. Ac for my whole apt would keep my studio at 71 degrees, but with lights on in the tent the 2x4 still ends up reaching 84 degrees when fully closed. I ended up opening the tent a quarter for extra cool air and that’s drops it to 78~82 degrees depending on how hot the day is. I was just looking for a way to control the temp while not spending the bill on temp controlling my entire apt

 

[marzig]

High temps since I have a studio apt that receives a lot of sunlight and subsequently high temperatures from the summer blast. Ac for my whole apt would keep my studio at 71 degrees, but with lights on in the tent the 2x4 still ends up reaching 84 degrees when fully closed. I ended up opening the tent a quarter for extra cool air and that’s drops it to 78~82 degrees depending on how hot the day is. I was just looking for a way to control the temp while not spending the bill on temp controlling my entire apt

If you can drop the tent temp by opening it by a quarter, it sounds to me like inadequate airflow when tent is fully closed.

 

[UnknownRemedy]

High temps since I have a studio apt that receives a lot of sunlight and subsequently high temperatures from the summer blast. Ac for my whole apt would keep my studio at 71 degrees, but with lights on in the tent the 2x4 still ends up reaching 84 degrees when fully closed. I ended up opening the tent a quarter for extra cool air and that’s drops it to 78~82 degrees depending on how hot the day is. I was just looking for a way to control the temp while not spending the bill on temp controlling my entire apt

Honestly 84 degrees isn't bad. Keep the humidity in check and with LEDs, that's a really solid vpd.

 

[oldsilvertip55]

High temps since I have a studio apt that receives a lot of sunlight and subsequently high temperatures from the summer blast. Ac for my whole apt would keep my studio at 71 degrees, but with lights on in the tent the 2x4 still ends up reaching 84 degrees when fully closed. I ended up opening the tent a quarter for extra cool air and that’s drops it to 78~82 degrees depending on how hot the day is. I was just looking for a way to control the temp while not spending the bill on temp controlling my entire apt

black out curtains for the glass walls should help!

 

[Delps8]

High temps since I have a studio apt that receives a lot of sunlight and subsequently high temperatures from the summer blast. Ac for my whole apt would keep my studio at 71 degrees, but with lights on in the tent the 2x4 still ends up reaching 84 degrees when fully closed. I ended up opening the tent a quarter for extra cool air and that’s drops it to 78~82 degrees depending on how hot the day is. I was just looking for a way to control the temp while not spending the bill on temp controlling my entire apt

@marzig brings up a good point - if opening the tent will drop the temperature that much, it sounds like you're not getting a lot of air flow through the tent.

One of the advantages of having temps in the 80's (up to the mid-80's) is that the rate of metabolism increases as temperatures increase. The upper limit in veg and early flower should be 85°. After about the second week of flower is when temps >78° dramatically reduce cannabinoids but, up to that point, the higher temps help the plant grow larger.

I have a 2' x 4' tent and run an AC Infinity fan at 5/10 through the life of the grow. At that level, the air is being exchanged in the tent at the "recommended" levels. I did the math for some ankle biter on another forum and I think I needed to run it at 4/10 to get the X exchanges of air per hour that the pointy-headed guys recommend.

 

[FmSwayze]

I live in a studio apt and have a 2x4 tent grow with a little space left in it to hang or put in an ax if it is small. I do not want to run my actual apartment ac, because I want to save as much energy as possible. Do they make any air conditioners that are very tiny that I can just keep in my 2x4 while saving as much space as possible? I really don’t want to get an ac that I vent into it, I want a tiny ac that will stay in my tent if possible. It is my only tent at the moment as well

You're not cooling anything without central air in that location. Do you have a picture of your setup?

 

[joesoap2013]

I changed my exhaust setup
The 400 connected to the carbon filter worked a treat but I run a duct from my cf in the tent to my fan ..In a different room ..you could tell it wasn't enough
Just do the nose test ..don't want it to be smelling danky in there ..it should be fresh ..you can tell by your nose ..even high humidity you can tell by your nose
Duct intake from the coolest part of you house is an option to for temperature