Cooling Advice Needed

Anonymous7o2

Active Member

• Jan 18, 2008

• #1

Hello Fellow Growers & Smokers
Need Some Advice On Cooling The Area Around My GrowBox, In The Beginning Months of Summer It Gets Easily Over 100F Degrees And Stays Till The End Of September. I've Constructed A 4x4x6ft. Enclosed GrowBox For Garage Growing, This Is My Upcoming 1st Time To Grow EVER, And I'm Just Pre-planning My Grow While My Beans Arrive, hopefully soon ..... Anyways My Question Is If The Outside Around The GrowBox Is 80F Degrees Or Higher And Is Entering Into My GrowBox Via 3 1inch Intake Holes And Then Through Some 1inch. PVC Pipe Looped Around My Two Chambers (veg/bloom) Wouldn't The Air Inside My GrowBox Be Just As Hot As The Outside Air (inside my garage) Or Dangerously Close To What Could Start Bud Molding Or Disease......? Oh And I Got A Limited Budget To Work With....

 

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firefly0678

Active Member

• Jan 18, 2008

• #2

Line your intakes with ice or cold water. You would need to get new ice everyday. Also, try running the lights and fans more at night when it would be cooler.

 

greenleafhigh

Well-Known Member

• Jan 19, 2008

• #3

firefly0678 said:

Line your intakes with ice or cold water. You would need to get new ice everyday. Also, try running the lights and fans more at night when it would be cooler.

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how would you line it

 

LoudBlunts

Well-Known Member

• Jan 19, 2008

• #4

duct an ac vent to your growbox


you do realize that the air is colder near the bottom of the floor, which is why people put intakes around the bottom

 

LoudBlunts

Well-Known Member

• Jan 19, 2008

• #5

greenleafhigh said:

how would you line it

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dont line your fan with ice or water....


that is just asking for problems, especially if your fan isnt moisture rated.

two to me that seems like it would just induce high humidity and condensation!!!

 

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firefly0678

Active Member

• Jan 19, 2008

• #6

Unless he is in the desert, the humidity at that temperature will be awful anyway. If he is in the desert, the added humidity would be good during vegetation. I didn't say to line the fan with it, I said the intakes, like set a bag of ice on the tubes or something like that.

The suggestion that a floor level intake is good too.

 

Dats

Well-Known Member

• Jan 19, 2008

• #7

Get a small airconditioner

 

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IGOTMYN

Active Member

• Jan 19, 2008

• #8

an-o i thought about it 2, if a light cycle iz 12 on and 12 off then set ur light timer 4, 7pm - 7am

 

email468

Well-Known Member

• Jan 19, 2008

• #9

I think you'll find with the intake holes towards the bottom and a properly rated fan for exhaust (3-400 CFM) and a few oscillating fans in the room - your indoor temps will be 5-7 degrees cooler than the outside. and oh yeah - make sure you air-cool your lights with a different exhaust - otherwise all bets are off.

if that doesn't work out then you'll have to get a small A.C.