Extreme heat!!

[Nwtexan]

Well, looks like we will be shattering some records here in the next few days!
I’ve got my plants flowering indoors, with the lights on at night. This works fine for our normal, moderate temps.
We are forecasted for 102 and 108 Sunday and Monday. I don’t have ac, but do have 2 exhaust fans, which will be going the whole time. I also have fans, both right below the light and in the room, circulating air. I have frozen 1g jugs, which I’m gonna put in the room each morning.
Can the plants survive a couple of days of this?

 

[SkunkDawgMike]

What I had to do back in the day on some hot August days was basically turn off my 1000s and just keep my shop lights on to keep them on the same light schedule but reduce heat for half of the day due to heat , might wanna look into some cheap t5 fixures or some cheap supplemental lighting just to keep them going

 

[bam0813]

108 ' no ac! Id need a jug under my hat lol
God bless Texas. I hope you make it . Thats a pretty good suggestion imo. Doubt a few days with less light power would hurt.

 

[goofy81]

I'm from Downunder and i remember during my early days when i was more noob than i am now, my room reached 115f !
Our summers reaching 104+ days regularly.
Sure my yield was crap but my plants never died.
Get an evaporative unit like this and never worry again

Evaporative Cooler | 300MM or 350MM | Complete Kit w/ Reservior

Evaporative Cooler - 300MM or 350MM | Complete Kit w/ Reservior

www.hydroexperts.com.au

 

[turbobuzz]

I agree a swamp cooler may help a bunch. It will likely raise the humidity a little, but….

 

[Johiem]

I'm from Downunder and i remember during my early days when i was more noob than i am now, my room reached 115f !
Our summers reaching 104+ days regularly.
Sure my yield was crap but my plants never died.
Get an evaporative unit like this and never worry again

Evaporative Cooler | 300MM or 350MM | Complete Kit w/ Reservior

Evaporative Cooler - 300MM or 350MM | Complete Kit w/ Reservior

www.hydroexperts.com.au

If you're going to spend that much why not just get an a.c.? Hell, dead boxfan, permanent filters and a water pump and you have the basically the same thing for a hell of a lot cheaper. Buying everything brand new you're looking at less than $100.00usd.

 

[Nwtexan]

It’s so rare that we need cooking where we live. Within 3 mionths we will be back to cool/cold weather where heat becomes a bigger issue

 

[goofy81]

If you're going to spend that much why not just get an a.c.? Hell, dead boxfan, permanent filters and a water pump and you have the basically the same thing for a hell of a lot cheaper. Buying everything brand new you're looking at less than $100.00usd.

Problem with AC is that i'd need a 10kw unit (running over 6000kw of light) . I'm running a vented room so the cold air from refridgerated just gets blown out. Also, the 2-3k or so watts the AC would use would be better put to more LEDs?
There's always a balance and in this case, I'm limited to 32A which is mostly going to lights. Going AC in my case would lose yield.


Oh forgot to mention i do have a 3.5kw portable AC in there, its never on because with my vent fan blasting and the amount of foliage+lights it hardly does anything.
Forgot to mention i pay 34-35c USD per kw. (apparently my city has one of the highest prices in the world)

 

[Humble_Budlings]

Well, i don't want to get off topic too much, but I am off grid and have the situation where I can't run ac on my AC (lol). I can't really push far past 1000w draw before I'm treating the batteries and inverter, at my system size, in an unsustainable fashion.

So I was very excited to find that a company has engineered a DC air conditioner that receives its power directly from solar panels,or another DC source. No batteries. Sun hits the panels, ac comes to life. Middle of the day it's running full power... Exactly when you need it. The ac unit itself is $2200... But I went ahead and ordered mine. Should be in soon. It's the only way to have ac for me, without a $10k investment in a battery bank.

Link: https://www.hotspotenergy.com/solar-air-conditioner/

 

[goofy81]

Well, i don't want to get off topic too much, but I am off grid and have the situation where I can't run ac on my AC (lol). I can't really push far past 1000w draw before I'm treating the batteries and inverter, at my system size, in an unsustainable fashion.

So I was very excited to find that a company has engineered a DC air conditioner that receives its power directly from solar panels,or another DC source. No batteries. Sun hits the panels, ac comes to life. Middle of the day it's running full power... Exactly when you need it. The ac unit itself is $2200... But I went ahead and ordered mine. Should be in soon. It's the only way to have ac for me, without a $10k investment in a battery bank.

Link: https://www.hotspotenergy.com/DC-air-conditioner/

Got me so excited for a sec,
Then i looked at the page and needs batteries !!

 

[Humble_Budlings]

Got me so excited for a sec,
Then i looked at the page and needs batteries !!

Oops lol I linked to the wrong product from the company. Here is the DC : https://www.hotspotenergy.com/solar-air-conditioner/

Get stoked.

I also edited my earlier post so others don't get confused.

I ordered the 18c model, so that's the $2200 one. The 12c is cheaper.