psychadelibud
Well-Known Member
So I have an underground room, with a small walkway/lungroom/hallway between the grow room itself and the wall outside. It's pretty much like this... Walk into the room from the outside, your in the lungroom, then you walk into the grow room from there..
I have a 26,000 btu minisplit cooling my 4000 watt grow. In the cooler months it does an amazing job keeping things cool, however now that the days are getting warmer it does terrible. All of my lights have to be dialed down to the lowest setting which is around 600 watts just to keep it around 83 degrees... this is ridiculous.
What I have come to figure out is that it must be that my lungroom is getting far too hot with the minisplit sitting inside of it to allow the AC to function properly. I have no frozen coils, no pipes, etc to indicate low freon... I think simply put that the compressor is getting to hot... I know this is not a great idea, actually its a terrible idea but I dont have a choice period. There is no way I would be able to get away with sitting the mini split unit outside, it would give it away for sure...
Now i do have a little ventilation in there, I have a 6 inch phresh filter connected to a 440cfm fan sitting on top of the ac unit sucking out the air, however it's still ridiculously fucking hot in there and I belive this is what is causing my AC to not function properly... can anyone confirm?
So, I have thought about building an enclosure around the exhaust part of the ac untit, cutting a hole in the top of the box I build and directly sucking the air out that way.. or, I have also considered maybe upgrading to an 8 or 10 inch inline fan to do the job better and vent it out rather than the 6 inch 440cfm.
Is this what is causing my ac to not cool the room properly? The air coming out of the unit is cool but definitely not cold. It has to be the compressor over heating and hopefully I have not already damaged it.
Any ideas???
I have a 26,000 btu minisplit cooling my 4000 watt grow. In the cooler months it does an amazing job keeping things cool, however now that the days are getting warmer it does terrible. All of my lights have to be dialed down to the lowest setting which is around 600 watts just to keep it around 83 degrees... this is ridiculous.
What I have come to figure out is that it must be that my lungroom is getting far too hot with the minisplit sitting inside of it to allow the AC to function properly. I have no frozen coils, no pipes, etc to indicate low freon... I think simply put that the compressor is getting to hot... I know this is not a great idea, actually its a terrible idea but I dont have a choice period. There is no way I would be able to get away with sitting the mini split unit outside, it would give it away for sure...
Now i do have a little ventilation in there, I have a 6 inch phresh filter connected to a 440cfm fan sitting on top of the ac unit sucking out the air, however it's still ridiculously fucking hot in there and I belive this is what is causing my AC to not function properly... can anyone confirm?
So, I have thought about building an enclosure around the exhaust part of the ac untit, cutting a hole in the top of the box I build and directly sucking the air out that way.. or, I have also considered maybe upgrading to an 8 or 10 inch inline fan to do the job better and vent it out rather than the 6 inch 440cfm.
Is this what is causing my ac to not cool the room properly? The air coming out of the unit is cool but definitely not cold. It has to be the compressor over heating and hopefully I have not already damaged it.
Any ideas???