blue.cheezbox
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do these carbon filters eliminate ALL odor?
Where is the best place to locate the filter?
Where is the best place to locate the filter?
The Ultimate Odour Control Thread
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brinkclan
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I have THE best and easiest cheapest method! Think about box fans. Think about carbon filter raw material and duct tape. Yes, with most box fans you get PLENTY of air flowing (don't let your plants shake too much). Yes, you can simply cut out your filter size and slap it on the back of your box fan using duct tape to make a good seal. Yes, you can actually put TWO filters on one fan. Yes, it is super highly affective due to the amount of air that goes into a box fan. Am I the first person to think of this idea? I don't know, but I should probably patent it.
brinkclan
Member
Oh and if you are really awesome you can stack your fans in the doorway to your grow room so that one goes in and one goes out. A typical doorway you can fit three fans. If you are ultra awesome you can construct your own fan door that can be moved over when working in the grow room and also block light due to the black carbon filters so that you don't mess up the cycles. If you are a ganja god you could make a system so that the door is hidden in the ground and by pressing a button your secret odor removing door raises up lollol
mr.woodes
Active Member
how did this work out?
hey guys I was thinking about making this DIY carbon filter Inspired by a friend. The cylinder with the screen around it is a cricket cage I got at walmart for $4. Then I bought the vent filters for $3. I am going to line the inside of the cricket cage with the vent filters. then Im going to fill it with activated carbon, and put something like panty hoes to cover up the hole. then Ill just attach it to the set up with some heavy duty tape or something.
TwinTigerz
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Any tutorials on clamping a DIY carbon exhaust to a fan?.
Or just general advice I understand all DIY ones are gonna be different.
Or just general advice I understand all DIY ones are gonna be different.
Arrid
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Try some hose clamps..what about duct tape?
theincrediblechoke
Member
Ona is the way if you dont want a big carbon and dont want to put holes in you walls.
moops
Active Member
My closet is located next to an unused chimney - when the house was built 100 years ago, this room (and the adjacent room) had coal-burning stoves attached to this chimney.
So I cut a piece of drywall (actually horsehair plaster) and found the chimney. Then I chipped out the mortar around one of the bricks, and removed it.
I stuck a piece of dryer vent into my new chimney port, and positioned the other end at the top of the closet.
A computer case fan drives air through the vent.
Now my tiny stealth closet has no smell, and any potential foul odors are ventillated through a virtually uknown 3-story chimney.
Oh, and it keeps temps down and provides air circulation.
It even is a source of negative pressure for this room, so it no longer gets dusty and musty. WIN!
So I cut a piece of drywall (actually horsehair plaster) and found the chimney. Then I chipped out the mortar around one of the bricks, and removed it.
I stuck a piece of dryer vent into my new chimney port, and positioned the other end at the top of the closet.
A computer case fan drives air through the vent.
Now my tiny stealth closet has no smell, and any potential foul odors are ventillated through a virtually uknown 3-story chimney.
Oh, and it keeps temps down and provides air circulation.
It even is a source of negative pressure for this room, so it no longer gets dusty and musty. WIN!
potlike
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In your case it's going into a chimney that would have lots of things to make the odor die down... but you should STILL treat the odor first before ventilating it elsewhere. I can duct smell out my window untreated but if my neighbor smells it I'm still fucked... You need to treat your dirty air. Put a carbon filter before it enters the chimney and you should be golden.
-potlike
moops
Active Member
funny you mention that because i made an addition even before i read this. there are now TWO fans - one drives topcloset air into the dryer duct, the other drives duct air into the chimney (I noticed that when upon opening it, it has its own slight positive pressure that resulted in the room smelling like old chimney). also, i placed several wadded-up fabric softener sheets at one end of the aluminum dryer duct. the exhaust *does* have a slight plant smell to it; there's the distinct aroma of Snuggle, which confuses the sniffing nose.
and i am upgrading this. the aluminum dryer duct that's ON MY DRYER needs to be replaced. since it's a few years old, the interior of the old duct is lined with old lint and fabric softener sheet material. running exhaust through that should further mask smells.
keep in mind this ventilates a very small New England -style closet. and what really grinds my gears is that since i'm yet to get good seeds, there's no grow going! just "testing" it with basil and rosemary! grrrr! but the basil is growing gangbusters!
bongrippinbob
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I had a small 400watt grow in a 2'x2' area with 4-5 plants and you could smell it a block away. I wasn't even exhausting my air outside. It was going into my bedroom and then leaking out. My entire apt smelled so bad I could never have any one over. Spend $100-$200 on a filter and you will have nothing to worry about.
usa a okay
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i want to post a thread. how many post do i have to do b4 i can start my own thread???????
boiStone
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For a small cabinet grow, one of these natural magic cans work great.
http://www.naturalmagic.com/product/5cf51a3c-1eea-4c08-8563-38dd98ceffd1.aspx
Just put it in the breeze outside the exhaust fan. Works great, lasts 2-3 months. This one smells like dryer sheets, which is more stealth than the fruity ones IMO.
http://www.naturalmagic.com/product/5cf51a3c-1eea-4c08-8563-38dd98ceffd1.aspx
Just put it in the breeze outside the exhaust fan. Works great, lasts 2-3 months. This one smells like dryer sheets, which is more stealth than the fruity ones IMO.
viperboy121
Member
as far as buying a carbon filter, which would you guys recommend? the can style or the inline style? also, how close will i be able to put a fan to my 400 W MH light for cooling?
naked gardener
Active Member
I wish I would have read/found this a few months ago, but 450-something dollars later I have a SUPER EFFICIENT & EFFECTIVE set up with the CANFAN66 COMBO. Though I praise it on a daily basis as one of the worlds best inventions--I am definitely going to try my hand at a DIY for drying area and then perhaps instead of sinking another couple hundred every year/year 1/2 into replacement (which, up until I read this, I did feel was money well spent) I will create my own.
This is a most wonderful and important thread--as I AM A STRONG STRONG BELIEVER IN ODOR CONTROL--for as the honest quote goes
"no smell, no tell...no cell"
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE USEFUL IDEAS!!
This is a most wonderful and important thread--as I AM A STRONG STRONG BELIEVER IN ODOR CONTROL--for as the honest quote goes
"no smell, no tell...no cell"
THANK YOU ALL FOR THE USEFUL IDEAS!!
Nubiansmoker
Member
I was talking with one of my girlfriends who also had a few plants going and just finished harvesting....she said that she was using something called a can filter..or charcoal filter.
After searching the net I found a link :
http://www.canadianwholesalehydroponics.com/products.cfm?cat_id=17&show_products=1&catpage=2
Not sure if something like this was already mentioned.
maybe when I decide to grow again I will look into something like this.
After searching the net I found a link :
http://www.canadianwholesalehydroponics.com/products.cfm?cat_id=17&show_products=1&catpage=2
Not sure if something like this was already mentioned.
maybe when I decide to grow again I will look into something like this.
Krawnik
Member
Thank God I came across this thread, lol. I was thinking of throwing out my plants because they were getting a dank smell which I didn't really expect. I'm using a locked room in my basement (my parents rarely come down here) and figured it'd get through the vents and upstairs so I sealed the vents shut and did the carbon method.
Krawnik
Member
Smell doesn't really play a role in sexing. Only way you can really tell is through the "balls" on the male plant. Better to get them as early as possible.
