Exhausting into attic and nighttime lights?

murtymaker

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Hey I was just wondering how much of a red flag a 1000w HPS would put up if I was venting the cooltube into the attic. There was a helicopter right over my place a night a go while lights were on. Kind of tripped me out.

Another questions is should I run my lights from 7am-7pm or during the night 7pm-7am? The night would be better for the temps but again at night more heli's are out and the heat signature shows up more.

Am I overreacting for only having one 1000w? Your suggestions please...
 
well u would need a huge fan in the attic to cool ur bulb even inside of the cool tube its gonna get hot as hell up there during the day over 100 and that bulb will make it even worse i have a 400w using 160cfm to cool it inside of a home made cool tube and it stuill produces heat and it was just 80 in the attic im scared to see what its gonna be when its 100 outside ima add another inline blowing 80 cfm in to make sure that ill be safe for the summer maker sue u properly nisulate ur ducts and add a nice centrifugal fan to exaust air out and try to have one blowing air over the bulb to proof it so that u wont have anytrhing to worry about and also how much space do u have??? lxwxh?
 
i run my lights during the day because at night it drops to about 60 which is a good night temp and is completely safe from helis and heat sigs but if it gets to hot and u think u can controll ur heat at night thn go for it... if jnot its always better to run em during the day just to be safe
 
K, will do on the daytime shifts... My room is 6x7x7.5 do you think I have anything to worry about with the last heli incident? Or that 1000w won't produce enough heat to really suspect anything... it was about 65-70F outside and 80F in the room and prob 75F in the attic
 
Choppers only look for big heat signatures, like someone who is venting 10 or 15 600w lights to the OUTSIDE.

Venting into your addic will not cause enough of a heat disturbance ot make them raise an eyebrow........ TRUST ME :)

Just keep doing what you are doin and dont wig out pay your bills on time and well that is that, NOBODY WILL BOTHER YOU. Just dont go sellin your stuff to all the kids around town very few personal stash grows get busted it is almost always the ones who have a real grow op going on or are trying to live off of it.

Oh yeah and as long as nobody knows other than you and whoever you told in the house then so what you vent your dryer into your addic for some strange reason and do all of your laundry at night duh LMAO :-P
 
In part it depends on how well ventilated your attic is. If like mine it has two attic fans that will run if the temperature reaches a certain point and lots of vents you will not build up a much heat but if your attic has little to no ventilation, like how older houses were built, it could likely be a problem.

If you can run your lights during the day without your grow room temperature getting to high for security it would be best to do so because during the day your roof will naturally get hot and what you will add will make little difference, unless you live in an area where it never gets very warm. Especially if you have dark shingles, assuming that is that you do have a shingled roof, your roof will get rather hot and then it will retain the heat for some time after the sun goes down where lighter shingles will reflect more light rays that produce heat and will not get as hot and will cool down faster after the sun goes down. If you can match the natural heating and cooling of your roof as much as you can it reduces a suspicious roof heat signature.

Something to consider is if your attic has vents or attic fans or both is running your lights exhaust line all the way to a vent or fan so it will blow out or be sucked out faster and be less likely to build up. If your attic does not have vents and or fans what I have heard some people will do is to run long exhaust lines back and forth across their attic and then block the end and make a hole every so often, precisely how far apart I am not sure but as even of a spacing as you can make is best, and that spreads the heat more evenly over the entire attic space and when it radiates up it does so more evenly and would appear to be more normal of a heat pattern than if all the heat blew out in one area and then rose and heated one portion of the roof more than the rest.

And yet one more thing to consider is if you have a bathroom fan with an exhaust line running through the roof you can tie into it, use or make what would be like a ‘V’ connection and run your light’s exhaust line into the bathroom vent line and you will not build up any heat at all that way, well not if you used an insulated exhaust ducting and if not a slight amount of heat would radiate through a thin uninsulated duct but not enough to wave any red flags.
 
cool thx for the info I think ill be fine by running in the daytime and if it gets to hot ill be using co2 anyhow
 
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