Can you vent a portable AC with your inline fan

My grow closet is 5ft by 3ft and about 8ft tall. I need to get a small portable ac unit with the summer coming up as the room gets to 30C when its 75+ out. There's no windows near the closet, however I have an ac infinity inline fan. Could I not have the ac vented since the inline fan vents out of the room into and out my attic? Could I have the exhaust duct from the AC mounted up by the mouth of my inline and vent like that? My first grow i flowered over the winter so I didn't have much temperature issues. I have an AC infinity S4 inline fan

Or can I just vent out of the closet into the bedroom its in?
Thanks!
 
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ҖҗlegilizeitҗҖ

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My grow closet is 5ft by 3ft and about 8ft tall. I need to get a small portable ac unit with the summer coming up as the room gets to 30C when its 75+ out. There's no windows near the closet, however I have an ac infinity inline fan. Could I not have the ac vented since the inline fan vents out of the room into and out my attic? Could I have the exhaust duct from the AC mounted up by the mouth of my inline and vent like that? My first grow i flowered over the winter so I didn't have much temperature issues. I have an AC infinity S4 inline fan

Or can I just vent out of the closet into the bedroom its in?
Thanks!
You can do anything you want lol
Just depends what works best!
The idea is to supply the coldest, dryest air in the intake, and extract the hot, humid air and move it as far away as possible.

If you want to exhaust your Inline AC through your grow room exhaust, that should work. I would reccomend a Y split to splice the duct.
Also make sure the exhaust from your AC goes up into the attic, and not back flow right into your tent.
 

xox

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You can do anything you want lol
Just depends what works best!
The idea is to supply the coldest, dryest air in the intake, and extract the hot, humid air and move it as far away as possible.

If you want to exhaust your Inline AC through your grow room exhaust, that should work. I would reccomend a Y split to splice the duct.
Also make sure the exhaust from your AC goes up into the attic, and not back flow right into your tent.
do not exhaust into your attic, exhaust out of the building. you will damage the inside of your roof and cause mold.
 

ҖҗlegilizeitҗҖ

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do not exhaust into your attic, exhaust out of the building. you will damage the inside of your roof and cause mold.
Mmm I've yet to see it happen to attics that are properly ventilated.
Air should never sit stagnet up there if built correct, plus the air your blowing up there is barely "humid".
A bathroom vent used for showers would be a different story
 

xox

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Mmm I've yet to see it happen to attics that are properly ventilated.
Air should never sit stagnet up there if built correct, plus the air your blowing up there is barely "humid".
A bathroom vent used for showers would be a different story
i duno im only a licensed carpenter, just because you personally havent seen it doesn’t mean it doesn’t occur. you also have no idea what his building looks like.
 

xox

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I believe most attics are ventilated well enough to keep that from happening, no?
honestly if your going to go through all the effort of punching a hole into your attic run the duct to the soffit, if its an old building with no soffit ie wood, drill a hole use a jigsaw cut a circle and put your vent exhausting out of the soffit.
 

Hollatchaboy

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honestly if your going to go through all the effort of punching a hole into your attic run the duct to the soffit, if its an old building with no soffit ie wood, drill a hole use a jigsaw cut a circle and put your vent exhausting out of the soffit.
I just exhaust out of my attic vent.
 

Billytheluther

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My grow closet is 5ft by 3ft and about 8ft tall. I need to get a small portable ac unit with the summer coming up as the room gets to 30C when its 75+ out. There's no windows near the closet, however I have an ac infinity inline fan. Could I not have the ac vented since the inline fan vents out of the room into and out my attic? Could I have the exhaust duct from the AC mounted up by the mouth of my inline and vent like that? My first grow i flowered over the winter so I didn't have much temperature issues. I have an AC infinity S4 inline fan

Or can I just vent out of the closet into the bedroom its in?
Thanks!
Its difficult to keep a grow within temps at times im from the south and let me tell ya, you gotta rigg things up at times. I need a portable ac and i need to exauhst ouside, well not really but if i did it would be a whole lot easier and cheaper. you could keep your setup as is and just modify it a bit
.. you could run an inline fan and exahust it outdoors via attict dryer exauhst or wat ever. So long as the hot air goes out and you have some filtration system
 
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