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So I blocked off my back wall. I installed a bathroom, a 6x10 flower room and a 4x6 mom and veg room. It is all insulated sheetrocked and painted flat white. I put Panda in a 5 ft strip around both rooms, can add more if necessary. My mother roomis a 3x3 botanicare with a 16 inch fan oscillting. It can hold up to 25 plants. Lighting is a 400 HPS with a shelf for seeds and clones with 4-4' T5's. This light is not air cooled like my flower room. I do have a 6" inline exhaust fan hanging from a painted black interior metal duct. This fan exhausts into my flower room high on the 10' ceilings, aiming directly at my air scrubber in the flower room. I have a sliding door between them that was a bitch to keep light from transferring, but I finally got it worked out.

The flower room has remote air for 2000 watts in 2 air cooled reflectors, exhausting into the attic above. The attic also holds my ballasts and the 8" vortex for my scrubber. The intake for the lights is coming from the new bathroom I built. My tray in the flower is a 3x6, with 3-25 gallon tote res, on wheels so I can move them if needed.

I know I will need to air condition the room, the summers can be pretty hot and humid. I put a de humidifier in the room and it raised my temps nearly 10 degrees, to an unacceptable 90+. I will have to splurge on an ac/deHumidifier combo I guess. Anyone with experience with these please share your wisdom.

Sorry about the pic quality but all are with phone.

nice, dude! the ventilation system looks pretty good to me

looks like a pretty clean setup.

I always try to keep ducting as straight as possible as not to restrict airflow.

What are the temps of your intake air? This will tell you if you need AC as if your ambient intake air temps are above 75F you will struggle to keep them below 80F inside your grow.




J

I had some plants in earlier, a test and learning batch that I totally screwed up....anywho, the temps were getting in the high 80's and low 90's. For sure I will need AC...just wondering if I should spend 500 bucks on a combo unit that also de humidifies....suggestions? I am looking at Lowes DeLonghi 13,500 BTU. I don't mind the vent going out a window, but I don't want to cut a hole in the wall for a window unit. I actually put in a turbine roof vent for my 8" scrubber. I could do another for the AC exhaust.

In the second pic.....is that your fresh air intake on the wall,between the filter and light?

Hey Dankster..

My fresh air is the third pic, coming from the bathroom. The second pic shows the continuation of the vent through the wall into the veg room, and continuing on into the attic. Tho the pic doesn't show it I have since patched around the duct for a tighter fit. On second thought, I should have put the intake at a lower spot to get cooler ambient air, as well as keep my duct running in a straighter line. My Phresh filter is the one in the second pic between the lights. It is on an 8" Vortex to a 90 out the ceiling, then nearly straight up to a turbine exhaust in my roof.

I think what you are asking is about the white grate on the wall. That is the exhaust from my veg room, aimed at my scrubber. It is an open inline 6 inch screwed together in metal adjustable collar. All painted black inside for light control.

I have 2 passive intakes with backdraft dampers near the floor below my light intake. I also have a fan in my attic blowing out a gable vent to mitigate heat and to cover noise from my fans. It is on a thermostat that controls the switching.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Wish I had better pics, or knew how to attach a drawing....I want to get this as right as I can and still be stealthy.

jondamon said:

looks like a pretty clean setup.

I always try to keep ducting as straight as possible as not to restrict airflow.

What are the temps of your intake air? This will tell you if you need AC as if your ambient intake air temps are above 75F you will struggle to keep them below 80F inside your grow.

J

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When I started the project I was thinking I needed to keep the intake up high as it comes from the new bathroom. After I got everything in, I realized an out of order on the door will keep nosy people away. I have a few days before I go back to work, so I may take a minute and lower the intake to a more mid level spot. Thanks for the heads up dude.

My ambient air from that room runs about 75, but with the lights, fans and dehumidifier running it adds about 10 degrees. I definitely need to add AC, and wonder about the combo AC/Dehumidifiers I see around

Ah ok then.I was thinkin if that's his fresh air intake he's gotta make some changes.All sounds good.But if it were me i would place all incoming air vent at the bottom and out going at the top.I would say the vent i was asking about is in a good spot,close to the final out take.Wish i had the space you do.Lookin forward to seein some green in there.

Dankster4Life said:

Ah ok then.I was thinkin if that's his fresh air intake he's gotta make some changes.All sounds good.But if it were me i would place all incoming air vent at the bottom and out going at the top.I would say the vent i was asking about is in a good spot,close to the final out take.Wish i had the space you do.Lookin forward to seein some green in there.

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Thanks to all comments. Since I haven"t finished the sheetrock on the bathroom side, I am going to open that intake wall back up and reconfigure to a lower intake as well as straighten my ducting some.

I don't see any reason to ask for input then ignore it or defend my admittedly weak position. LOL

I have beans poppin' and will start my first grow journal soon, hope you guys watch for it and contribute.