heat problems please someone help asap
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fir3dragon
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Do u got a ac?
Dr Kynes
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vent your closet by using ducts.
heat vented into an enclosed area has no way to escape and will build up.
if you put an AC unit in your closet you will only increase the heat.
if the closet has a sliding door, you can fashion a venting system by doing this:
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bullwinkle60
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You need to put your inline fan above your lights remember heat rises. Then you need to vent it out of your grow closet into another room.
I can't feel the exhuast as it leads to a crawl space in the attic I was thinking of taking my exhaust out the crawl space patching the hole etc. And running the exhuast out the closet back into the general area opposite side of my intake cus I believe heat might be building up to much in the crawl space but my ac will be on the intake side
fir3dragon
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Where's your ballast your exhaust should be fine
also what is intake temps nd what r u doing for intake
also what is intake temps nd what r u doing for intake
jrainman
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First off you say you are exhausting in to a crawl space above your grow room, Is the crawl space vented ,if not that is the start of your problem , you have to first understand basic building concepts, to be more specific ,when a house or building is built it is built to move air through the whole foot print this is done for the reason of keeping the material of the structure from rotting,expanding ect ect , when you change the flow of things like adding fans ,you must take appropriate mesures to insure you do not hinder the natraul flow of the design it was intened for .if you gave more detail on what you have setup I would be able to give you more advice on rectifying your issue.
Nizza
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i think its good to think about how the outside temperatures will effect your room. perhaps its cold at night so at night you open up the windows in your house and let it cool off to 60-70 degrees. if your grow vented to your house it would maintain that temperature as the night goes on. in the morning you get up and close the windows, locking that cool air in. your room is able to use that cool air to refresh the grow room with cool air (maybe its just exhausting into an attic or outside) but with a cfm that will keep up with the bulb temperature but not expel all the cool air from the house really fast. as the day goes on and the house and grow heat up, you open all the doors and windows to give it the same temperature as it would be outside. the key here is CFM's combined with where your getting your air intake. say your grow is intaking and expelling air into a closed attic. the house heat naturally rises into the attic (unless its insulated on the attic floor and not the cieling) so if you were intaking air from there even though its "vented" you will notice it would be much much better to have an intake from a basement. the basement is actually the best IMO but precautions should be taken such as air filtration on the intake, humidity and stuff like that. just know that your air that your putting into the room that your grow sucks air from is important, and that exhausted air shouldn't mix with the intake air.
I'm in an attic everything the grow room general area its all a redone attic now theirs a crawlspace up in the attic cieling that's where my exhuast vents too not sure if theirs a vent up their to take the warm air outside I don't think their is and if their isn't I can't make one due to I rent I usually can keep the general area cool with ac in the summer but just the closet itselfe is getting too hot
I have one 240 cfm fan blowing air threw the hood and the ducted to another 150cfm fan sucking it out of the room then ducted up to the crawl space my intake I have 2 pc fans about 40cfm or so a piece sucking room temp air into my gr and then another 2 in the gr to pull the cool air up and another window fan not sure of cfm blowing air into the room from the general area
If I can't vent my hps light completley outside is it beter to go with cfls what's better lumens vs a little heat stress I generally never hit 90 usually tops out at 87 and seems to fluctuate between 80 and 87 degrees f Icould put 2 125 wat cfls in ther but the all together 20000 lumens they produce seems so shitty compared to the 65000 Im almost pumping out with my hps only 75 percent up
jrainman
Active Member
Ok so first off , So there shoul be a ridge vent on the roof , let take that duct out of the hole ,then lite up a phatty or a cig and put it a couple of inches away from the hole and see if the smoke is sucked in.or is blown back in the room. get back to me with this info, where gonna fix this shit asap