Most powerful 6"/150mm inline fan

Blue brother

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Like the title says I'm looking for the most powerful 6"/150mm duct fan. I Wanna cool 5 600w bulbs in cooltubes. Been doing 3 no problem, just added an extra 600w and my tubes r starting to get hot. May aswell change fan now.

What you guys think
 

toaster struedel

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I'm pretty sure 6 inch fans top out around 400-425 CFM your probably gonna havta run multiple fans. I cool two 600w hps with one fan, you might be able to push that to 3. But I can't see one fan cooling 5 lights.
 

Blue brother

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I'm pretty sure 6 inch fans top out around 400-425 CFM your probably gonna havta run multiple fans. I cool two 600w hps with one fan, you might be able to push that to 3. But I can't see one fan cooling 5 lights.
Yeah I know it's a big ask isn't it. An 8 with a reducer might do it but wanna see if anyone knows a 6 that would do it. I reckon it'l probably take around 700 cfm and good pressure.
 

Blue brother

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Better off to just put one 6" fan on each end then shelling out for max fan. Plus the max fans are LOUD.
Just to be clear do u mean one pushing and one pulling through the lights? i think that will just add more air pressure and keep the cfm at the total rated for one fan. This might be enough though I've got another 6" on my flower room intake il try it tonight. Thanks
 

spandy

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Yeah I know it's a big ask isn't it. An 8 with a reducer might do it but wanna see if anyone knows a 6 that would do it. I reckon it'l probably take around 700 cfm and good pressure.

I cooled 3-1000 with one 10" that had a 6" reducer. Ebay fan, paid less than 100 bucks new, ran that setup for a couple years no problem.
 

Blue brother

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Just to be clear do u mean one pushing and one pulling through the lights? i think that will just add more air pressure and keep the cfm at the total rated for one fan. This might be enough though I've got another 6" on my flower room intake il try it tonight. Thanks
This didn't work lol just a very noisy alternative to what I'm doing now. No noticeable temperature drop from the glass. If anything it might have been abit hotter, the two fans did not work harmoniously lol.
 

toaster struedel

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This didn't work lol just a very noisy alternative to what I'm doing now. No noticeable temperature drop from the glass. If anything it might have been abit hotter, the two fans did not work harmoniously lol.


I tried that too, only I used 4 inch fan with a 6 inch fan on the very end of exhaust. Long story short it ruined my 6 in fan.
 

Blue brother

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Are they the same model fan?

What are the models of fan you used?

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They weren't the same model. I don't even think they have a brand name, cheapy eBay centrifugal in line fans, one with a flat white casing and one with a bumpy grey casing. Both are rated around 350-400 cfm though. Maybe two identical fans would work better but I just can't see how airflow could be increased. I've got an 8" that I use to exhaust, I was gonna upgrade that anyways but in reality I ask more of my cooltube fan than I do of my exhaust fan. So might just buy an 8 or 10 inch hyper or iso or can fan and use a reducer. It's pretty essential that I do all my light cooling with one fan as its all one straight run and my lung room is about 20 ft away from my grow room and running a new duct to it would be an absolute nightmair, I'm talking at least a full days work just to run a duct propperly and hidden.
 

legallyflying

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A fan at each end, blowing and pulling will adress the real problem which is flow loss through friction and turbulence from using flexible ducting. Your fans don't have to be the same size or rating. Saying that one fan ruined the other is ridiculoud. Any time you add a fan you are lowering the pressure that each fan needs to overcome and hence lowering the strain on each fan.

I would not advise running a huge fan and a big reducer. You loose a LOT of flow that way. There is plenty of info online about duct aizing, air flow loss, etc etc. You just have to look on non marijuana sites full of retards.
Cheers
 

Blue brother

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If I knew for sure that one fan wouldn't hinder the other enough to make it heat up to the point where it could be dangerous, then I'd do it straight away, but neither of my fans ever made any noise like it did when I tried both. I just thought because it was making noise something was wrong, it was like a whine.

I might fire off an email to a manufacturer to see what they think.

I can understand that it will boost air pressure within the duct which in turn will get more air through. This fan works fine for 3 lights, adding 2 more in a straight run with cool-tubes is adding more friction so yes that could well be the problem, I just need to know for sure that extra fans on the same run isn't gonna be a fire hazard.
 

legallyflying

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If the air is going the same direction it is not harming the fans. It's probably the combined noise of the fans that you are hearing. Or they are spinning faster because of the decreased resistance, but only slightly faster.
 

mattisreal420

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Can fan max is probably best bet, but not 100% it'll cool all your 600's.
Hurricane fans are really good too, that's what kind of inline fan I use. 435cfm, solidly built, and comes with a 5 year warranty.
 

legallyflying

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If you want a max can fan I have four 12" ones that we are selling. 50% off retail. The are crazy powerful. If you set it on the ground and plug it in, it will race across the floor!

It's 1200 or 1400 cfm. Something like that. And loud as a mutha fucker without silencers.
 

mattisreal420

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If you want a max can fan I have four 12" ones that we are selling. 50% off retail. The are crazy powerful. If you set it on the ground and plug it in, it will race across the floor!

It's 1200 or 1400 cfm. Something like that. And loud as a mutha fucker without silencers.
12", 1400cfm....talk about beast mode.
 
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