I was tossing this idea around and wanted other input on it. I am running into some heat issues and want to cool my tent down. I have decided to purchase a dual hose AC by Danby rated at 11k BTU's.
A perfect dual hose is
supposed to draw air in from the intake hose and cool the machinery inside the unit then it
should exhaust the hot air after cooling the machinery through the exhaust hose. Compared to a single hose, which sucks air from the room it is in (the air it has already cooled) to cool its machinery. The dual hose is not supposed to suck cool air from the grow tent it will be in, right?
Based on the readings I have found, this is never the case and all portable air conditioners dual or single hose, suck air that they have cooled to help in cooling the machinery. This tells me that when my ladies are in flower, stank-ass smell from the grow tent will be exhausted with the hot air used to cool machinery.
Because attaching a fan to help exhaust the hot air from the AC will ruin the AC exhaust motor, using a carbon filter on the AC exhaust is out of the question.
—I was thinking that I could potentially build a DIY Ona bucket and jerry rig the exhaust duct with ducting tape and scrub the air that way. Do you guys think this will work effectively since the AC will
only exhaust a minimal amount of stank-ass smell?
Also, if the intake hose is ducted from another room and not from a window will this effect performance, other than keeping the unit on longer to cool to desired temps?
Thanks guys for the input.