how about mounting the pc supply in one of the corners of the box to slightly act as a heater...? If this is possible?
Might be able to give off some slight heat to help without overheating the pc supply...
PC power supplies are of the 'switching' variety. They don't make much heat unless loaded heavily. Running only a PC fan from a 300W PC power supply won't cause it to make much heat.
How about this for an economical heat source. Use a 50 or 100 watt incandescent light bulb inside a coffee can (to block the light since you need to dry in the dark) inside the box. Or, a small box or galvanized steel duct with the bulb inside it outside of the dryer's intake and a light trap connecting it to the dryer. You could control the internal temperature with a ductstat inline thermostat (available at Home Depot or Menards) hooked up to the bulb.
Personally I think this idea rocks, Simple and 4 days in enough for me to dry.
Personally, I think it rocks, too! Incandescent lamps are a great way to make heat cheaply. The trick is to keep the light away from the buds while efficiently shifting the heat into the flowing airmass. Coffee can engineering should not be underestimated!
if you're using cooltubes and exhaust can't you just place the exhaust from your lights in the area of your bud dryer to give it the heat it needs to dry since the exhaust of the bud dryer will pull in the heat from the light exhaust?
Mainly because you can't control the output temp of the air from the cooltube. You should not exceed 29C when drying buds. The output from my pair of 1000HPS in cooltubes is usually above that by several degrees (30-34C).
I thought of using a fish tank heater
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Im thinking of buying a couple of these mini dehumidifier devices & seeing how they work,supposedly they add heat & move air at the same time.
Air-Dryr 1000 Dehumidifier Moisture Humidity Dryer - eBay (item 200213972264 end time Apr-10-08 22:33:16 PDT)
Aquarium heaters are designed to operate submerged in a cooling bath of water. I'm really surprised that the nichrome wire heating element in the one you ran in air didn't pop. They usually do!
The 'AirDryr' looks a better bet than a fish tank heater. Hard to tell much about it other than their claim that it 'draws about the same power as a light bulb.' If that's true, perhaps 50-60W, it could be a great heating element for a bud dryer. I bet you order one and find out it's a light bulb in a coffee can.
maybe all u need is one of these and just use that as your fan too and attached it to your box
just put the space heater on low an have it blow into your box
i just hang all my stuff in my grow room and put the fans on, then i have a space heater like the one above and i let it run on the bottom of my grow room. can dry them in like 2 days if i had too but usually do like 5 days on a lower setting depending how quik i need them and how worried i am about bud rot
another idea is get a cheap hair dryer and hook it to your box and use the lowest setting
The space heater in the spare room with circ fans sounds great. Not much control over scent, but your chances of getting the air to stay close to 29C if working with the airmass of an entire room are pretty good.
However, the thought of a 1000-2000W heater/hair dryer pumping 100C air into a small box, however, terrifies me. It'd be very hard to limit temp to 29C with such big heating elements warming small containers like rubbermaid tubs.
i went back to the basics,green light does nothing for weed plants
Righto, mate-
chlorophyll ignores green light.
THC in plant resin isn't so selective.
Got to keep the beggars in the dark- from all visible light.
There's a million ways to make a low temp dryer, we should work out a very simple way to do it. My dryer works well, but as many have said, is more complex than it needs to be. You need a drill press and a threading tap set to make one like mine!
I like the light bulb in the coffee can idea. Might also take a tomato sauce can inside of a coffee can or some other clever thing to control the light while efficiently shifting the heat.
Let's work out a way to do the heater with more 'everyday' components- or plain old junk.
