Please help. Temps too hot

Setup:

9x5 tent, 2 x 1000w lights, 6-site RDWC, 740 CFM with carbon filter and silencer. I am also running a chiller.

Problem:

Room can get to high 80's low 90's and I am trying to figure out the best way to cool it. I can:

1) Get an AC
2) Get an air cooled hood or a cool tube (Don't know the difference)
3) ?

One issue is that I am exhausting into the same room and that room is getting hot, so hooking up ducting to exhaust to the other room should help, but I am guessing not enough. What is the best way to cool my room?

Way too hot. Definitely focus on getting a proper exhaust and passive intake setup first. Aircooled/cooltube is basically the same thing, only difference being the cooltubes are cylindrical, and usually a little cheaper. Paying for air cooled hoods, ducting, and another fan would probably be just about as costly as picking up a decent window unit AC, but with temps that high, you may want to consider going with both. I have the same size tent and, even though my hoods are air cooled, I still have to use AC during the summer or my girls melt. Found a cheapo 12k btu window unit at a garage sale that works perfect. Good luck.

Are you running your lights at night? If not that will help.

redeyedfrog said:

Are you running your lights at night? If not that will help.

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I thought about that. Problem is I'm not growing at my house, I'm growing at a property of mine a few miles away and the hottest hours of the day is the best time for me to be in my garden

If you wanna work in thd room with lights on buy a green bulb,
You can still see and it wont affect the plants light cycle.
A cool tube will help heaps.
Cool tube has glass and a duct to pull the hot air out of the hood And keeps things cooler.
A evaporative cooler can help to and helps keep humidity up too!
Running your logjts in the daytime can be diabolic sometimes.

The big thing is to run your lights at night and use air cooled hoods. The hoods work great if they are hooked up properly. They must have fresh air from outside the building to draw over the bulbs and have an exhaust that is also outside the building. The light loops do not need to have a carbon filter on the exhaust as that air never really enters the room. It stays in the sealed hoods and is exhausted without any smell. I have had great results with using jackets on my sealed hoods also. Every hood I own has a jacket to keep the heat in the hood so it can be taken out of the growing area. This gives you an idea what they look like. Also, use clear ducting between the hoods and capture some lost lumens.

If you're going to use a cooltube over an air cooled hood then you will have to retrofit a better reflector to it because the shit that comes on a cooltube these days put down a terrible footprint, 4.5x5 is just too big. I retrofitted adjust a wings to my cooltubes and never looked back they're fuckin ace.

Pinworm said:

Way too hot. Definitely focus on getting a proper exhaust and passive intake setup first. Aircooled/cooltube is basically the same thing, only difference being the cooltubes are cylindrical, and usually a little cheaper. Paying for air cooled hoods, ducting, and another fan would probably be just about as costly as picking up a decent window unit AC, but with temps that high, you may want to consider going with both. I have the same size tent and, even though my hoods are air cooled, I still have to use AC during the summer or my girls melt. Found a cheapo 12k btu window unit at a garage sale that works perfect. Good luck.

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With advice like this i wish you were a girl so i could press my grow bone against you whilst we were cheaply drunk.


Op^^ whatever pinworm says is kinda like vagina. Never say no to it because it may never be this good ever again.