What simple concept am I missing weed freak? I'm not really concerned with the CO2 levels but I would be concerned with the levels of CO. im really not going to tap the furnace exhaust but if it gets cold I'm gonna start a charcoal fire. NOT REALLY.
I WAS going to pipe the air from as close to the flames of the water heater and furnace as possible. I was just speculating that the air closest to the flames would contain more CO2 than the air in the rest of the room simply because the flame was using up a lot of the O2 in the air leaving CO2 rich air behind. I guess I should find out how a flame driven CO2 producing generator works that allows it to produce CO2 W/O producing CO. I do have an unsealed room but there is no reason why I couldn't stop the air exchange to give me a chance to augment the CO2 levels for an hour or so a few times a day. Thanks for the heads up though weed freak. Chit... this house has more smoke and CO detectors than needed. I'm just grateful for the radon gas detector. You never know about that radon. Ramble on. Can someone point me in the right direction on CO2 generators? the benefits seem tangible.
HA, got me on the CO/CO2! I always do that. We're neighbors, I'm from Mass as well, Hi!
Simple concept is CO2 is for sealed rooms. I don't have first hand knowledge, but I've looked into it enough to figure that out. If someone can't show quantifiable results in a somewhat controlled(clones in same medium, same lights, nutes, etc) side by side of a CO2 vented area and non CO2 vented area, take any claims with a grain of salt. I never saw any. I've wanted CO2 for awhile, but can't afford the AC to cool my room if I sealed it. I thought about what you're talking about. I was going to use a CO2 controller to operate a damper I'd install in my heaters exhaust ( at the flame or up the exhaust, is all the same gases) to redirect it to my room. After researching it, I decided not to for reasons I listed.
I assume LP/GAS CO2 generators still produce CO, but in a sealed room, CO2 levels are brought up to ~1500ppm, the burner shuts off and doesn't reignite until levels drop, so there's a limited burn time. In a vented room, it will continuously fire, and be vented out into your house. I suppose you could vent directly outside from your area, but you would have to allow make up air to enter the house, or room directly, from outside. Depending on how well your house is sealed, venting outside without make up air, could potentially cause a negative pressure in the whole house and start drawing exhaust gas from the heater back into the house, so that gets complicated.
