Fans and venillation

mike9t9

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Hello everyone im about to start my first grow and im basically all set up in a nice 6x6 grow room where i plan to raise 4 plants.

The only thing i am having trouble with is ventilation and air flow. Im going to be using air ducting with fans to bring air flow in and out but im having some trouble picking a fan. Im looking for a cheapish but useful fan i can insert near/in/on/thru the ducting to create airflow.

I have no experience with wiring things so im looking for some sort of fan that requires little or no wiring.

I was looking at this http://www.hydrowholesale.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=hydro&Product_Code=736880&Category_Code=F

How is this product? will it be enough to extract air out of the grow room? Can anyone recommend good fans for bringing and taking out air and how to go about this?

Thanks in advance, mike.
 

ak.fortyseven

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Hello everyone im about to start my first grow and im basically all set up in a nice 6x6 grow room where i plan to raise 4 plants.

The only thing i am having trouble with is ventilation and air flow. Im going to be using air ducting with fans to bring air flow in and out but im having some trouble picking a fan. Im looking for a cheapish but useful fan i can insert near/in/on/thru the ducting to create airflow.

I have no experience with wiring things so im looking for some sort of fan that requires little or no wiring.

I was looking at this http://www.hydrowholesale.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=hydro&Product_Code=736880&Category_Code=F

How is this product? will it be enough to extract air out of the grow room? Can anyone recommend good fans for bringing and taking out air and how to go about this?

Thanks in advance, mike.
Ive hadgood luck with these guys, get my orderes 2 days after placing it, competitve prices and they have an ebay store you can get some really good deals on fanshttp://www.htgsupply.com/productsubcategories.asp?categoryID=7
 

mike9t9

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Ive hadgood luck with these guys, get my orderes 2 days after placing it, competitve prices and they have an ebay store you can get some really good deals on fanshttp://www.htgsupply.com/productsubcategories.asp?categoryID=7

Thank you for the info. Would a normal desktop fan suffice for bringing air in? and using one of there fans to extract the air out through a carbon filter?

Or do i need to cough it up and buy 2 inline fans.

Also does anyone else know some other places to buy air flow fans aswell? i like to shop around.
 

ak.fortyseven

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Thank you for the info. Would a normal desktop fan suffice for bringing air in? and using one of there fans to extract the air out through a carbon filter?

Or do i need to cough it up and buy 2 inline fans.

Also does anyone else know some other places to buy air flow fans aswell? i like to shop around.
on inline fan exhausting may be enough, just let air naturally feed in due to the negative pressure form the exhaust.\

and yea, shop around.
 

cutman

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1rst are you use a air cooled hood or cool tube with your light. what kind of lights are you useing. with my 6" hood i have ducking hooked up sucking the heat out.
 

mike9t9

Active Member
1rst are you use a air cooled hood or cool tube with your light. what kind of lights are you useing. with my 6" hood i have ducking hooked up sucking the heat out.
im using 7 40 watt cfls with mylar all over the inside.
 

cutman

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mike if i were in your shoe i would get better lighting, cfl will work but you wont get the grow that a hps or m/h light will give.
 

mike9t9

Active Member
mike if i were in your shoe i would get better lighting, cfl will work but you wont get the grow that a hps or m/h light will give.
Im not hoping for a mega grow im being realistic and a new lighting system is not in my budget right now. I will add more cfls when flowering time comes though but a hps system is to expensive for me right now.
 

cutman

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right on dude when looking at your cfl get the one that have as mich lumeis there is walmart has 1500 i beleive whitch is 2700 lumeis .
 
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