volcomrider157
Well-Known Member
K so i have been reading other peoples problems and im sure you have all heard this before but im posting a new thread, i just signed up so i could have this issue deticated to my issue alone. i have a grow room that is currently up and running. the room is 5'x4' but after you figure in...there is a water heater in the room and an portable ac unit and other things the actual grow space ( the clear space where the plants are.) is about 3'x4'. --Ventilation--the room includes two fans for air circulation (one 4" and one 6" fan). two industrial type stanley hundred blade blower fans might as well say squirrel cage type blowers--one for intake and one for exhaust i got 4 inch plastic vent pipe duct taped on them and one is drawing air in and one is pushing air out. --Lighting-- i am using a 600 watt HPS (95,000 lumen bulb) with a reflector i do believe it is called a eco wing... when i first got it i hooked it up and my temp went from like 80 to like 97 in no time flat. so i quick shut it down and got the flouresent lights back in there right away so i could do more research. i then discovered that people use portable ac units in there rooms to keep the light cool so i got one it is 9,000 BTU portable ac unit i hooked it up and it started blowing cold air but with that the unit also exhausted hot air so i directed that into the exhaust blower but i just dont think its keeping up.... temps were fine at first... well i guess i should tell you what i have here, it is a storage closet area, and half of it is sealed off--my grow room and the other half is storage area. i was pushing the hot air into the other half of the closet and that half got very warm....and the duh thing was that my intake was coming from that half so...i corrected that today and tapped into the duct work from the furance and am now blowing the hot air into my bathroom and still drawing air from the other half of the closet....thought i had it all figured out and left...came back 5 hours later and my temp just hit 108!!!! so i got the sealed door open to let air out faster and i just dont know what to do.... sorry this is so long but i have to include everything to give the feel of whats going on here and the set up i have. the only thing i have come up with so far now is that my bulb is too big for my area... oh and the light is about 48" above my plants which just turned two weeks old on saturday. please any advice will help this is my first time growing and i really want it to be a success, i thought it would be alot easier than this...