It's over 90 degrees in here?!

RetiredMatthebrute

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mine girlfriend has been unhappy with every dime i put into my hobby as well, be she sure smokes the shit outta that weed LOL

one sec ill measure a cool tube to give you rough dimenions.
 
RetiredMatthebrute

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6 in in diam, 27 inch long prob less bulky than the current hood you have.

  • "1 - Cool Tube: 23" x 6" Duct Size: 6" Made of Glass and German Aluminum"
that is the one i linked above, the metal wings on it are junk anyways and i dont ever use them, they come right off and actually dont even need to be installed in the first place.

i dont want to sound like im pyshing you to buy a HID light but i think that if you were to buy one you wouldnt regret it. Obviously you need to do what your financial situation calls for, maybe remove one or 2 more lights to get that temp to drolp down to 80 and just use that for veg for a while untill you can figure something else out.
 
240sxing

240sxing

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Im dealing with the same thing but the high of like 87-90 ,(note to self , run lights at night in the summer)


Edit: *CAUTION* Rotate frozen/s water bottles next to intake to bring down the ambient temp coming in. Or even Dryice and possible get the benefit of the co2 mixed with your ambient air and or mix it and create a ice-box using either ice or dry-ice.
 
XXVII St.

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Ditch the chick. I can pretty much guarantee unless your significant other is on board you're gonna have a rough ride/failure.

She's probably a nag anyway. Find a cool hippy chick that WANTS you to grow weed. The difference between happy and miserable. You're welcome. :)

If you insist on this type of setup? You need to be pulling in fresh cold air from outside IMO. I don't let shit get above 75 degrees in a full flower room. If you're starting off with that temp it's only gonna go UP.

I've READ passive intake works well. But it's never worked in real life for me. Get another 4 inch inline and run the ducting to one of your windows. Pull in the fresh while exhausting the rest. Bang.
 
hepzibah

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RetiredMatthebrute said:
6 in in diam, 27 inch long prob less bulky than the current hood you have.

  • "1 - Cool Tube: 23" x 6" Duct Size: 6" Made of Glass and German Aluminum"
that is the one i linked above, the metal wings on it are junk anyways and i dont ever use them, they come right off and actually dont even need to be installed in the first place.

i dont want to sound like im pyshing you to buy a HID light but i think that if you were to buy one you wouldnt regret it. Obviously you need to do what your financial situation calls for, maybe remove one or 2 more lights to get that temp to drolp down to 80 and just use that for veg for a while untill you can figure something else out.
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Yours is 27 inches? The 23 inches I think I can work with seeing how I only have 30 inches of width. I still worry that there would not be enough intake room on the other side of the cool tube. I guess I can 'rent' from Amazon to test it out. I will need a reducer to fit my fan too.
 
hepzibah

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XXVII St. said:
Ditch the chick. I can pretty much guarantee unless your significant other is on board you're gonna have a rough ride/failure.

She's probably a nag anyway. Find a cool hippy chick that WANTS you to grow weed. The difference between happy and miserable. You're welcome. :)

If you insist on this type of setup? You need to be pulling in fresh cold air from outside IMO. I don't let shit get above 75 degrees in a full flower room. If you're starting off with that temp it's only gonna go UP.

I've READ passive intake works well. But it's never worked in real life for me. Get another 4 inch inline and run the ducting to one of your windows. Pull in the fresh while exhausting the rest. Bang.
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Outside air where I live is in the 90's during the day, maybe high 70's at night but always humid and sticky. Maybe I'll just leave the doors open and put a big box fan pointing at it from across the room and see what that does.

My woman is alright. I rag her for spending money on her dumb hobbies too. She doesn't smoke so she doesn't benefit at all. She brews beer and I don't drink beer so we each have expensive hobbies that the other doesn't really enjoy. It works out :razz:
 
XXVII St.

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hepzibah said:
Outside air where I live is in the 90's during the day, maybe high 70's at night but always humid and sticky. Maybe I'll just leave the doors open and put a big box fan pointing at it from across the room and see what that does.

My woman is alright. I rag her for spending money on her dumb hobbies too. She doesn't smoke so she doesn't benefit at all. She brews beer and I don't drink beer so we each have expensive hobbies that the other doesn't really enjoy. It works out :razz:
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Well remind her of that when your buy a portable AC unit. :)
 
rob333

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RetiredMatthebrute said:
mine girlfriend has been unhappy with every dime i put into my hobby as well, be she sure smokes the shit outta that weed LOL

one sec ill measure a cool tube to give you rough dimenions.
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time for a new girlfreind if she getting shitty with ur hobby and smokes it sounds like the one i just ditched
 
RetiredMatthebrute

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240sxing said:
Im dealing with the same thing but the high of like 87-90 ,(note to self , run lights at night in the summer)


Edit: *CAUTION* Rotate frozen/s water bottles next to intake to bring down the ambient temp coming in. Or even Dryice and possible get the benefit of the co2 mixed with your ambient air and or mix it and create a ice-box using either ice or dry-ice.
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seems like alot of unnecccesary work imo
 
RetiredMatthebrute

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hepzibah said:
Yours is 27 inches? The 23 inches I think I can work with seeing how I only have 30 inches of width. I still worry that there would not be enough intake room on the other side of the cool tube. I guess I can 'rent' from Amazon to test it out. I will need a reducer to fit my fan too.
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mine is for a 1k watt ballast so that would explain the added length
 
RetiredMatthebrute

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rob333 said:
time for a new girlfreind if she getting shitty with ur hobby and smokes it sounds like the one i just ditched
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money is tight here i cant say as i blame her for being naggy when i want to dump 500 bucks on switching from soil to hydro or want to buy another light and some nutrients, the big spending is over now and its not so bad. we have been together for almost 7 years now and have 3 kids...i think my hobby would be the first to go!! but thanks for the relationship advice.
 
hepzibah

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I am looking at this light but have some questions:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GROW-LIGHT-COMPLETE-KIT-400-250-150-watt-BALLAST-REFLECTOR-HOOD-GROW-BULB-/160971060868?pt=US_Hydroponics&var=&hash=item257a9f7684

Is the ballast something that can handle 400w, 250w, and 150w bulbs or are there different ballasts for each wattage?

I only have 3.75 sq ft of growing space so 150w might be enough? (I intend to have only one plant)

Would this 150w light be cooler that the CFL light fixture I already have (2-65w, 4-42w, 2-23w)?

Is a 150w HPS light enough wattage for me to see a difference in yields? (My first grow was hydro so my roots were out of control but only after I burned it and got root rot 3 separate times-I am moving on to soil)

Sorry for so many questions, but hopefully someone can help me with these. I have a skunk #11 bean I can't wait to crack!
 
hepzibah

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And another question:

I've read that if you can put your hand by the light for a minute and it isn't too hot, its okay, I can freaking cradle the CFL in my hand for a solid minute after 10 hours of being on yet my thermometer reads 97 degrees. Do I have superpowers or am I putting my meter in the wrong place?
 
240sxing

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After trying to deal with the summer time high temp I decide to test out a passive intake , which I happy to say has currently drop my temps by about 7 degrees , bringing me down to a steady 82 - 83 degrees F ..

I just disconnected the power to my intake , and magically turned it into a passive intake.
The intake fan moves very slowly showing the - or + pressure.

But also in my case I found that the intake fan was blowing on the CFL bulbs mixing the heat with the ambient air . Instead of letting it rise and exhausting out.
 
240sxing

240sxing

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hepzibah said:
And another question:

I've read that if you can put your hand by the light for a minute and it isn't too hot, its okay, I can freaking cradle the CFL in my hand for a solid minute after 10 hours of being on yet my thermometer reads 97 degrees. Do I have superpowers or am I putting my meter in the wrong place?
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Peoples tolerances to heat is not the same by far , mainly depending on what there hands have been subjected to and so on.

It known that direct light is bad for thermometers , your trying to catch ambient air , so you can create a shade or just take multiple readings , get more and place 1 wall , canopy and ground for the roots.
 
hepzibah

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Good point. I have a fan blowing right on the lights. I think it feel wonderful in there. I want to crawl in there and read a book. Nice cool breeze...plenty of light.

I will do another test run with the meter in the shade or on the side or something. Thanks.
 
RetiredMatthebrute

RetiredMatthebrute

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hepzibah said:
I am looking at this light but have some questions:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/GROW-LIGHT-COMPLETE-KIT-400-250-150-watt-BALLAST-REFLECTOR-HOOD-GROW-BULB-/160971060868?pt=US_Hydroponics&var=&hash=item257a9f7684

Is the ballast something that can handle 400w, 250w, and 150w bulbs or are there different ballasts for each wattage?

I only have 3.75 sq ft of growing space so 150w might be enough? (I intend to have only one plant)

Would this 150w light be cooler that the CFL light fixture I already have (2-65w, 4-42w, 2-23w)?

Is a 150w HPS light enough wattage for me to see a difference in yields? (My first grow was hydro so my roots were out of control but only after I burned it and got root rot 3 separate times-I am moving on to soil)

Sorry for so many questions, but hopefully someone can help me with these. I have a skunk #11 bean I can't wait to crack!
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yes seems the ballast is witchable to different wattages. it also looks like a magnetic ballast so it may be a bit loud, the new age thing is digital ballast.

i would go with the 250w setting for your space, mj is a light whore of a plant it gets difficult to provide too much, so long as you can keep your temps down.

that light prob wont be any easier to cool because it dosent have a air cooled reflector. the ballast is remote so you wont have the heat from that (magnetic ballasts do run hotter than digital ones)

yes im sure you would see a difference in yeilds with a 150w HPS.

if your going to buy a new light get one with a air cooled hood or you wont be resolving any issues you have right now. when i vought my 600w light all i ran was a 6" inline booster fan and ir kept that bad boy nice and cool, finally i upgraded to the 1kw light and a big can charcoal filter so i had to get a vortex fan.
 
240sxing

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