Southerner
Well-Known Member
I'm a few days away from starting my first grow!
I currently have a basement that is divided down the middle with my grow room on one side and the laundry room on the other. One problem i'm seeing down the line is I won't have any sort of perpetual grow system without a separate chamber of some sort. I want to change that, but I have the larger problem of needing to cool what will be the flowering room with an a/c as I am maxing out at 81 degrees(18/6 cycle) during my test runs of the past few days and that's without plants even being in there. From what I have been told, that is bordering a temperature that will begin to stress the plants. Problem is that I need to vent the a/c safely through a carbon filter. I've sorta ruled an inline Ozone out just because I hear the smell can be quite strange in itself and they are pretty darn pricey. Will ducting a one hose portable a/c to a 4" Can fan with an inline Phresh filter and sending it out the dryer vent do the trick?
Also, I would like to hit two birds with one stone with this solution by adding in a small grow tent in the laundry room side where the A/C exhaust will be pulled through and out the vent. Would a 4" fan have enough power to exhaust both the a/c and a small grow tent using a Wye before the inline filter without having any blackflow issues? Thanks!
EDIT: The ac vent would be about 8 feet from where it needs to be vented out, the tent would be approx. same distance.
I currently have a basement that is divided down the middle with my grow room on one side and the laundry room on the other. One problem i'm seeing down the line is I won't have any sort of perpetual grow system without a separate chamber of some sort. I want to change that, but I have the larger problem of needing to cool what will be the flowering room with an a/c as I am maxing out at 81 degrees(18/6 cycle) during my test runs of the past few days and that's without plants even being in there. From what I have been told, that is bordering a temperature that will begin to stress the plants. Problem is that I need to vent the a/c safely through a carbon filter. I've sorta ruled an inline Ozone out just because I hear the smell can be quite strange in itself and they are pretty darn pricey. Will ducting a one hose portable a/c to a 4" Can fan with an inline Phresh filter and sending it out the dryer vent do the trick?
Also, I would like to hit two birds with one stone with this solution by adding in a small grow tent in the laundry room side where the A/C exhaust will be pulled through and out the vent. Would a 4" fan have enough power to exhaust both the a/c and a small grow tent using a Wye before the inline filter without having any blackflow issues? Thanks!
EDIT: The ac vent would be about 8 feet from where it needs to be vented out, the tent would be approx. same distance.