I need help with my Ventilation setup please

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youraveragehorticulturist

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You want you fan closer to your filter.

You can put your filter in your tent with your fan, connected "in front" of your fan, so the fan sucks through your filter.

Or you can put your fan and filter outside of the tent, with the fan on top of your filter, pushing smelly air through your filter.
 
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Digger47

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The less bends the better. I personally use ridgid pipe. Fan can either be in the tent or outside. It's really what works best for your space.
I'd probably put the filter in the tent attached to the fan and put it as high as possible
 
SSGBloke

SSGBloke

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Digger47 said:
The less bends the better. I personally use ridgid pipe. Fan can either be in the tent or outside. It's really what works best for your space.
I'd probably put the filter in the tent attached to the fan and put it as high as possible
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Ok so the filter goes inside and the hose just sticks out of the tent?
 
SSGBloke

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youraveragehorticulturist said:
You want you fan closer to your filter.

You can put your filter in your tent with your fan, connected "in front" of your fan, so the fan sucks through your filter.

Or you can put your fan and filter outside of the tent, with the fan on top of your filter, pushing smelly air through your filter.
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My fan doesn't fit in my filter i just tried
 
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youraveragehorticulturist

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There are all kinds of ways to hook stuff up, I like fan/filter outside the tent for a small setup.

I would just sit the fan right on top of the filter, pushing air through. What kind of lighting are using?
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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SSGBloke said:
My fan doesn't fit in my filter i just tried
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You connect both with a short piece of duct or a duct collar.
Technically you should run

Filter>fan>duct out the tent and house

So you actually extracting the heat and humidity out of the room.
This also means fresh air laden with ambient levels of co2 is brought into the room to replace the air that went out which keeps your co2 levels from depleting .

If the grow is small enough you can get away with venting into the room but you have to keep an eye on humidity and temperature because your venting hot humid air back into the same room to be recycled over and over.
 
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youraveragehorticulturist

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SSGBloke said:
My fan doesn't fit in my filter i just tried
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Sometimes they don't fit together nicely. You can get a coupler or adapter, it's like a 8" long piece of six inch diameter metal ducting with a tapered narrow end and a wide end to fit between the fan and filter.

Or you can "balance" the edge of the fan on the "lip" of the filter. So instead of fitting "inside" one another, one is on top of the other. Then use foil HVAC tape to hold/seal them together.
 
SSGBloke

SSGBloke

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youraveragehorticulturist said:
Sometimes they don't fit together nicely. You can get a coupler or adapter, it's like a 8" long piece of six inch diameter metal ducting with a tapered narrow end and a wide end to fit between the fan and filter.

Or you can "balance" the edge of the fan on the "lip" of the filter. So instead of fitting "inside" one another, one is on top of the other. Then use foil HVAC tape to hold/seal them together.
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I used that foil tubing thank you i appreciate it my room has been smelling lol i figures it was just good lol
 
SSGBloke

SSGBloke

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youraveragehorticulturist said:
Sometimes they don't fit together nicely. You can get a coupler or adapter, it's like a 8" long piece of six inch diameter metal ducting with a tapered narrow end and a wide end to fit between the fan and filter.

Or you can "balance" the edge of the fan on the "lip" of the filter. So instead of fitting "inside" one another, one is on top of the other. Then use foil HVAC tape to hold/seal them together.
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Thanks that's a great idea i didnt think of that
 
SSGBloke

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coreywebster said:
You connect both with a short piece of duct or a duct collar.
Technically you should run

Filter>fan>duct out the tent and house

So you actually extracting the heat and humidity out of the room.
This also means fresh air laden with ambient levels of co2 is brought into the room to replace the air that went out which keeps your co2 levels from depleting .

If the grow is small enough you can get away with venting into the room but you have to keep an eye on humidity and temperature because your venting hot humid air back into the same room to be recycled over and over.
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Its a big room with the refrigerated air circulating does that help?
 
SSGBloke

SSGBloke

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coreywebster said:
You connect both with a short piece of duct or a duct collar.
Technically you should run

Filter>fan>duct out the tent and house

So you actually extracting the heat and humidity out of the room.
This also means fresh air laden with ambient levels of co2 is brought into the room to replace the air that went out which keeps your co2 levels from depleting .

If the grow is small enough you can get away with venting into the room but you have to keep an eye on humidity and temperature because your venting hot humid air back into the same room to be recycled over and over.
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But the tents a 2x2x56
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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SSGBloke said:
Its a big room with the refrigerated air circulating does that help?
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It helps it stay cool but not high in co2 or low in humidity but if its a 2x2 tent I wouldn't be worried about those things.
Just you walking in the room and breathing will replenish the co2 on a small tent like that plus natural air exchange under skirtings and doors and any gaps.
 
SSGBloke

SSGBloke

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coreywebster said:
It helps it stay cool but not high in co2 or low in humidity but if its a 2x2 tent I wouldn't be worried about those things.
Just you walking in the room and breathing will replenish the co2 on a small tent like that plus natural air exchange under skirtings and doors and any gaps.
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I don't understand this Co2 stuff I'll look it up. Would a 5x5 be good or will i need a Co2 set up?
 
coreywebster

coreywebster

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SSGBloke said:
I don't understand this Co2 stuff I'll look it up. Would a 5x5 be good or will i need a Co2 set up?
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Air contains enough co2 to keep your plant happy, when you have a grow tent bigger than you do now you need to get heat out the room as well as humidity and doing so keeps fresh air coming in which keep the natural levels of co2 needed for growing at a normal level.

If you don't exchange air the plants will use all the co2 . The room will be too hot and the humidity will sky rocket.

You are running such a small grow that your plants wont use all that co2 or heat your whole room up or cause the humidity to sky rocket.

If you got a 5x5 tent you would have to set it up properly which means extracting all your hot air at least out of the room and ideally out of the house via a window or chimney.
But you have a 2x2 and you don't need to worry about any of that.
 
SSGBloke

SSGBloke

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coreywebster said:
Air contains enough co2 to keep your plant happy, when you have a grow tent bigger than you do now you need to get heat out the room as well as humidity and doing so keeps fresh air coming in which keep the natural levels of co2 needed for growing at a normal level.

If you don't exchange air the plants will use all the co2 . The room will be too hot and the humidity will sky rocket.

You are running such a small grow that your plants wont use all that co2 or heat your whole room up or cause the humidity to sky rocket.

If you got a 5x5 tent you would have to set it up properly which means extracting all your hot air at least out of the room and ideally out of the house via a window or chimney.
But you have a 2x2 and you don't need to worry about any of that.
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Thanks that helps me a lot
 
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