need help cooling down my grow tent
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justugh
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this is easy ........u were trying to do a sealed room set up using a portable ac
1 u can not do what u were doing...heat and u forgot the co2
ok to fix this .......u are going to be running a exchange system
1 remove the portable AC they are crap
A get a window shaker
B move the tent to the lower part of the house 2 reason
1 heat raises so if u have the tent in lowest point u will get cooler air for a intake
2 Co2 is heavy gas so it settles in lowest point of house co2 lights on plants happy happy happy
ok now u need to design a air movement path
1 your hood is going to be hooked to a ducting ......now do u need to hide the smell or not ?
2 the tent has flaps with mesh low on them u can remove the cover to it ....if your air path is sucking out on the right side u want to open the left side flap so the air is pulled in and drawls over the plants ....or u can use one of the lower opening for ducting and make a powering intake filter box for it
depending on what u say about the smell control will dictate on what fans u would need to buy
now ducting out to the ejection point .......i would say buy some insulted flexie ducting this way the heat from the tent/light is not exchanged back into the air ...as for in the tent the flexie ducting works fine
1 u can not do what u were doing...heat and u forgot the co2
ok to fix this .......u are going to be running a exchange system
1 remove the portable AC they are crap
A get a window shaker
B move the tent to the lower part of the house 2 reason
1 heat raises so if u have the tent in lowest point u will get cooler air for a intake
2 Co2 is heavy gas so it settles in lowest point of house co2 lights on plants happy happy happy
ok now u need to design a air movement path
1 your hood is going to be hooked to a ducting ......now do u need to hide the smell or not ?
2 the tent has flaps with mesh low on them u can remove the cover to it ....if your air path is sucking out on the right side u want to open the left side flap so the air is pulled in and drawls over the plants ....or u can use one of the lower opening for ducting and make a powering intake filter box for it
depending on what u say about the smell control will dictate on what fans u would need to buy
now ducting out to the ejection point .......i would say buy some insulted flexie ducting this way the heat from the tent/light is not exchanged back into the air ...as for in the tent the flexie ducting works fine
GrowUrOwnDank
Well-Known Member
You need a Gilligan.
justugh
Well-Known Member
ok
then this is how u do it
1 carbon scrubber is attached to the top of the tent the hightest point .....u run ducting from the carbon to the front of the hood(your reflector)
2 the hood goes under the carbon filter ....so the heat raise up to it ....on the back end of the hood u run more ducting .....this goes to the fan then u run insulted ducting from the back of the fan out to the ejection point
so it is carbon filter ducting hood(reflector) ducting fan insulted ducting to ejection point
as for smell control use this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-LIVING-ALPINE-AIR-PURIFIER-IONIZER-OZONE-GENERATOR-SMOKE-ODOR-REMOVER-7-/161042404879?hash=item257ee0160f
it is a 5 part cleaner ........it has a ozone option on it this will kill any smell that is in the house ....the amount of ozone it makes is not dangerous unless u lock yourself up in a 2x2 closest and huff the stuff coming off at maximum speed
i owed one for 3 years now ........no one can tell i just jarred up qp or hp 20 mins after i finished and ran the ozone gen (trust me if these ppl could smell the weed they would been on my ass about getting them stoned for free)
oh get the square trade warranty so if it breaks u can get it replaced for free