Co2 climate control and this hot summer crap?

justsmoking

Active Member
So here I am complete hydro inovations setup !! Three rooms ,one t-5 mother room ,one veg room with a dimable 1000 watt mh ,one largest room with 4000 watts of dimable hps with co2 and complete closed air/water cooled system all hooked up to a 3 hp chill king chiller that has a 1hp flotec pump manifolded to 12 ice boxes through out everything I even put them damn things on not only every hood but I even put them thermostat and all to there own inline fans in each room to hopfully cool the place. They said at hydro inovations that a 2hp chiller was more than enough. Bull shit. Now I realise it's summer out and where I'm at I have no shade so I was thinking about getting some. It's just now I've spent over 20,000 building all this and right now my flower room without the co2 generator on it's 79 and going up after only one hour. ? Pissed off looks like I may have a problem can anyone help me with this?
 

justsmoking

Active Member
Plus I think I may of forgot to add a timer on my co2 generator. This is my first time using co2 first off. I just got real lucky and ran into some more $ and am now getting a stand up ac unit to add this season in my flower room :-$ super happy but not for the power bill that's why I went with the water cooled setup. I know during the winter and well basicly any season other than summer it cost beyond what is logical to get 75 deg at lights on and 65 deg at lights out with water only while using 1000 watt light systems without a little help of ac. So I think I'll go with both and hope for the big turn out.
 

whodatnation

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I guess with co2 you might be able to afford to keep temps around 86?? Is humidity a problem? Maybe plant some trees around the building or even covering it in earth with grass to insulate it. You can use bottled co2 to keep heat down. my 2c
 

whodatnation

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Yup. to my understanding the plants can thrive in higher temps with the addition of co2 but I dont go higher than 86 but sometimes it creeps up to 90... my buds are still dens dens dens. Are you using a co2 burner of bottled?
 

justsmoking

Active Member
It's a co-2 burner.by hydroinovations. Called hydrogen-pro. I added the heat scrubber ice cap to take 95 % of the heat it makes. Well see how well it works
 

frenetic420

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i don't want to sound rude. but you should know what co2 does for a plant if your investing 20,000$ in a setup. im guessing you grew outside before and your new to hydro. your temps can get to 90 degrees as long as you have good air flow in the grow room and 1500 ppm co2 in the atmosphere
 

justsmoking

Active Member
Well I have an water cooled co-2 gen pro with a 400 $ ice cap heat ex. So that's not it. I just learned that with co2 I trick the plants in thinking it's 10 deg cooler than it is. That's sweet but what about when I have lights out and the co2 turns off , I put in a fresh air in and out both fans same power and both have filters over them. I also have a dehumidifyer. But still when I bring the temps down to 65 at night the RH goes up big time (50%) this is all without plants inside. ? I thought that I covered everything so please help
 
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