lights not cooling well

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jpiduke

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I have a 400 cfm fan blowing air in and a 400 cfm sucking air out with a 1000 w and a 300 w lights in sealed reflectors in between them. They don't seem to be cooling well .
What am I missing one working to hard, need to be slowed???????HELP
 
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joe macclennan

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you need to give more details on your ducting and stuff. What size duct are you running? flexible or ridgid? How many elbows or bends are in the runs?

firstly you shouldn't need both and intake and exhast fan if they are pushing 400cfm each.

One is sufficient.

you need to give much more info.
pics would be nice
 
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joe macclennan

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vostok said:
passive in and everything Sucking the heat out ..is the best way
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idk. I kinda prefer putting the fan on the intake side. It runs much cooler that way. You do risk blowing air out of the hoods though and pressurizing the room if not sized appropriately.

to each their own.
 
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joe macclennan

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ok well first i'd say try to straighten all the ducts out as much as possible. and the thirty feet to outside window is a loOOng way.

I would upsize all of the duct to @ least 8" ......10" would be better.

an 6" duct will only move around 100cfm or so..and this is under perfect conditions. a lot of bends or long runs and it will be less.

an 8" duct will only move around 225cfm

a ten inch will move about 400cfm
 
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joe macclennan

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just flex brother. You said the fan you have is rated @ 400cfm correct? In order to move this much you'll need ten inch flex....Especially given the amount of bends and the distance you are going.

I know it sounds pretty big...and it is but a duct can only move so much air by size.
 
jrainman

jrainman

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Agree with Joe , you need to move up to 10 inch flex,

but use each 400 cfm fan on exhaust side one fan per light pulling

if you do it this way you will have a lot more exhaust then needed ,

So at this point I would utilize the Tee fittings you have on the intake side of the lights , of course you will need to by some reducer fitting 10'' to 6'' off the lights and fans , .but install those 6'' tees to lights put a manual damper on the bull of each Tee then you can have the ability to exhaust air out of the room also and at the amount you want by adjusting the damper, also you can take it a step further with the addition of filters off those Tees also.

Also have to give you a lot of credit you put a drawing up of what you installed , it gave a lot of information and made it a much easier task to see why you are having issues.
 
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jrainman

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Nope credit as I said goes to poster , drawings of his set up , lets you see the issues, As you found them in his duct size as you said, I just gave him some more options to upgrade being his system will become very oversized once he makes the duct size change.
 
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