40$$ Carbon Air Scrubber Without Any Cutting, Pipe Fitting, or Work! Stoner Friendly

I bought one of these when I started a few years ago
mine is a honywell with a similar cartridge filter.
I run mine 24/7 usually and just bought carbon sheets and cut them to size as replacements as well as adding a few layers.
My Area is 2x2x4.5 and it scrubs very nicely outside the tent just sitting in my room.
I am using 8 dangling cfls in my tent so the low heat helps controlling the smell as well.
I am also using a pc fan for exhaust. That I had lying around. I don't know much about it but it just happens to blow incredibly hard. I have it connected to some basic cheap ducting and I shoved some of the carbon sheets in there as well and it just vents into the room.

I just need to yield a couple ounces a month for myself and this does the trick
like the others say it only works for a small low heat grow.
 

yesum

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Where did you get the carbon sheets Private Reserve? Anyways, I am going to target this week and get the air cleaner and then to Petsmart for charcoal.

I have a standard Phresh air filter connected to extract fan, but it is nearing it's end and I would rather have a cheaper and easier odor solution.
 

Learning2Hydro

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I can smell the bud in my house now. Its probably due more to the high temps I run in the grow room as opposed to the scrubber not working. But I am going to have to add more odor control pronto.
 

kickflipdipstik

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It's got carbon in there, I just didn't feel like messing with the pre-filter again. Working great so far, can't smell anything except in the closet itself. I used to be able to smell it in the bedroom and in the bathroom and a little bit in the hall but now no smell but in the hall way. Mind you I'm only 32 days into flower, it is still doing a wonderful job. + if I ever upgrade my odor protection I'll have a nice HEPA filter unit for my room :) well done man! Thanks for the ingenuity! +rep
 

JohnBudZ

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It's got carbon in there, I just didn't feel like messing with the pre-filter again. Working great so far, can't smell anything except in the closet itself. I used to be able to smell it in the bedroom and in the bathroom and a little bit in the hall but now no smell but in the hall way. Mind you I'm only 32 days into flower, it is still doing a wonderful job. + if I ever upgrade my odor protection I'll have a nice HEPA filter unit for my room :) well done man! Thanks for the ingenuity! +rep
np dude haha glad it worked well for you aswell
 

Farfenugen

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I have one of these here:

http://www.lowes.com/pd_334093-74309-04530GM_0__?productId=3306338&Ntt=hamilton+beach+air+purifier&pl=1&currentURL=/pl__0__s?Ntt=hamilton+beach+air+purifier

I use it along with an Ona block. Total cost of $12 maybe. The air filter plugin cost me $7.99 at Lowes, it came with "green meadow" scented refills. It has a little carbon filter, and the scented thing. I have the Ona block almost completely closed. I can't smell anything but the "green meadow", and a little of the Ona. My grow area is pretty small, 2 x 2, with 5 small plants, all 16" and under.

Once the filter needs replacing, I will modify the thing and see what I can do to it, those replacement filters cost more than the unit. Activated charcoal is pretty cheap at the pet store.

I almost bought one of those bigger fan + carbon filters, for like $150. But for a 2 x 2 area, that is a little much. What I have is working great. Doubt it'd work for a larger grow though.

head into Home Depot, they sell carbon filter pads for $5, they're about 8'x8" square and would trim nicely
 

Farfenugen

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I went out and purchased on of these units at Lowes for $14.99 and installed it on the wall inside my cabinet with the fruity scent cartridge and for a day it really over-powered the air inside with the so called natural scent. I took the scent cartridge out and just left it on for a day and that combined with my home made exhaust and a bag of odor absorbing stone, all I smell is clean air. Now I have four fans working inside it and the light strip. It's amazing how much aroma comes from 4 small plants @ 4 weeks into growth.
 

JohnBudZ

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I went out and purchased on of these units at Lowes for $14.99 and installed it on the wall inside my cabinet with the fruity scent cartridge and for a day it really over-powered the air inside with the so called natural scent. I took the scent cartridge out and just left it on for a day and that combined with my home made exhaust and a bag of odor absorbing stone, all I smell is clean air. Now I have four fans working inside it and the light strip. It's amazing how much aroma comes from 4 small plants @ 4 weeks into growth.
Especially if the grower knows what hes going haha do you have a grow journal? Some pics?
 

JohnBudZ

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I guess you could not saying it will work haha. How would you get carbon on the front of a regular fan if i may ask?
 

chasmtz

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So i like this idea and have a similar hepa filter i am going to try this on. Another easy, quick solution would be to get a pair of pantyhose and some charcoal. Stuff the pantyhose with charcoal and tie it off. stuff that into your line somewhere and youre good to go. easy money.
 
I also am using a holmes air purifier with two hepa filters and it works great. the only thing I did different was i bought mine at goodwill for 8 bucks and it had filters already in there. so I went bought some carbon and then cut out the old hepa filter material took a filter for your floor registers and duct tapped it to the front poured in the carbon and then placed the carbon filter sheet on top and tapped a second register vent to the front. I did this on one and bought a second hepa filter for the other slot. I have not had any smell in my room for quite some time. I have the second old filter handy in case I need to add more carbon instead of filtering the air. which get dones any way when the air is forced through the towel thats in a bucket of water for humidity.
 
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