86 degree tent
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MeJuana
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75F is fine just keep the light back 18 inches is what I use in hotter temps so if the temps flucuate up and/or the plants grow a little I am fine. But I do use a temp gauge x 2 at canopy top. 240 cfm is great for a carbon filter so save that. You need something in the 400-500 range. I recommend researching a very quite quality inline fan. I have had mine for years now it is 460 cfm I think, I can't look right now. I bet there is better ones now
Edit: I wanna add that yes in the laundry room. It is always cheapest to cool your room if you can eject that hot air away completely. Next best scenario throuh the roof next to an attic vent because heat rises
Edit: I wanna add that yes in the laundry room. It is always cheapest to cool your room if you can eject that hot air away completely. Next best scenario throuh the roof next to an attic vent because heat rises
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Dogenzengi
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I use a 20' long piece of 6" flexible duct to draw air from another room.
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Traplife
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Is you exhaust vent at the top/roof of your tent? Most people forget basic physics - heat rises. I would say make sure you vent the hot air out a window, and your intake to also be routed to a window or a source of fresh air. 6" fans are kinda small i've learned that 8" inline fans with 8" ducting really gets the job done.
Try and have the ducting make the least amount of turns or bends possible.
Also, do you have fans running air into your tent? or just running through your reflector/cooltubes? my homie who runs HPS has separate ventilation for the lights and separate ventilation for the actual tent itself. it helps keeps the temps down. Couldn't stand having to deal with heat issues where i live. thats why i went LED. good luck man; your setup seems pretty legit! happy growing!
Try and have the ducting make the least amount of turns or bends possible.
Also, do you have fans running air into your tent? or just running through your reflector/cooltubes? my homie who runs HPS has separate ventilation for the lights and separate ventilation for the actual tent itself. it helps keeps the temps down. Couldn't stand having to deal with heat issues where i live. thats why i went LED. good luck man; your setup seems pretty legit! happy growing!
Kratomist
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I run a 6" into the tent at the bottom for cool air and I have a 6" 240cfm fan (I know that's small)on the hood blowing air the air in the tent through the hood and out of the tent. I only have two six inch holes in the tent and one eight inch hole to work with. But as of now I have the 8" closed up and just using the fan on the hood as an exhaust cause I can't afford another fan like that, also the floor in my tent is too small to add an exhaust fan, I just should of gotten a bigger tent, straight up.
Traplife
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check out this cheap ipower 8" inline for $30 it pushes 420cfm which is great for that price! Having an exhaust separate from the one on your hood will greatly help reduce your temps.
Kratomist
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The problem with that is that my hood covers up the 8" hole on the top of the tent :/
Chef420
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I third it.
highdave
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Try to straighten your ducting could be losing airflow that way.
Looks like the tent is kinda just sitting in a room? Do you have a.c. in the house? What temp is the room its sitting in at?
You could seal that hole ya got in your ceiling that would at least help keep it in the attic space. I did something similar for my tent but was getting a lot of hot air running back in. I got some styrofoam insulation and cut it to size and made a hole for the ducting taped it off and called it good.
Looks like the tent is kinda just sitting in a room? Do you have a.c. in the house? What temp is the room its sitting in at?
You could seal that hole ya got in your ceiling that would at least help keep it in the attic space. I did something similar for my tent but was getting a lot of hot air running back in. I got some styrofoam insulation and cut it to size and made a hole for the ducting taped it off and called it good.
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Kratomist
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It's inside of my bedroom, with ac and the Temps stay around 73. I think I'm just gonna move it to the laundry room, buy a window unit and exhaust the air outside that way I'll always have fresh cold air from the window unit to supply my intake fan.
highdave
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Yes definatly get it away from the tent. Ducting it to the attic space worked for me. But like I said I had to seal it up.
Sounds like you gotta plan. Doesn't get hot and humid in there? Mine does but it's also attached to a garage and doesn't have a window.
420monster
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Got 4 northern lights in flower my temps rise into the mid 80's every now and then they don't mind the heat at all
the mistake is I was doing a side by side in mg soil and organic soil imo case closed since I'm getting nitro tox in flower even after a 2 month veg
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Kratomist
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Nice, I'm germing two Nother lights as we speak, using fox farm ocean forest and I'll be using the fox farm nutrient trio, good to hear that your temps get that high and they still do okay. I'm ready to start growing again
Kratomist
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My garage is open but the laundry room is closed off and has a window right above my dryer, and I'm sure it'll be pretty humid in mid summer but this grow should be done before then and I'm sure I'll have the money for a nice dehumidifier.
420monster
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I don't suggest letting them get that high if you can help it if not tho it happens but it defiantly will not kill them you will just have to water more often I have 2 blue mystic aswell (in organic soil) that are said to have northern lights that I wouldn't be embarrassed to show hahaha but they are very happy and I'm only about 30 days into flower
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highdave
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Hell ya man get 'er done
Kratomist
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Nice I really think I'll be able to drop the temp at least 4 to 5 degrees by venting out of the window and using a window unit and I'll run the light at night, I'll start at like 7 pm and left them go till 1 pm the next day before the hottest part of the day. Then from 1 to 7 have the light off, I think that'll work well
Carolina Dream'n
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If you plan on getting an AC do not vent out of your house.
When we turn on the central ac what's the first thing we check? Make sure the windows and doors are shut.
Running an ac and sucking that air right out is working backwards.
Set up the ac and vent the tent in the same room. Keep the door shut. You have created a lung room. You'll have more control of temps and actually use less power than venting the tent outside.
Flagg420
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240cfm fan... inline centrifugal fan....... or a 'booster fan*' (*max speed when installed in a closed system with a main fan pushing it)
Go big on fans, always easy to put on a speed controller, not so easy to force more airflow than design allows.....
My early grow room used a 4" exhaust fan system to go outside, matches bathroom/laundry venting.... later did portable a/c vented out the window.... (warning, SMELL, cant filter this way)
You gotta vent somewhere, gotta have the 'fresh' air be cooler than the temps, and after a few hrs of lights, that may be tough... I would go with a window A/C unit in the room, a 400cfm 6" fan on the lights, pullin thru a filter....