Question for growers living in year round hot areas..

How in the world do you keep 2 1k watt lights cool when it is hot out all the time? Assuming of course, you have air cooled lights and assuming the temp is always 75-80 in winter and 88-95 in summer.

Let's assume the room is 10' x 5' and 8' high. So a room is basically cut in half. Where do you input and output your vents?

From the other half of the room? The room heats up and gets worse than before.

From another room in the house? It still wont be cool enough to cool those lamps down tho. Also the room gets hot and will just be sucking up warm air again.

From the attic? Jeez, the air up there can get plenty hot too. In the summer it must be 100 to 120 up there. But at night it can get cool without the sun beating on it.

From outside? Better off back inside cause it's most likely hotter outside.

So what's the scoop? How can you keep the temps under 85 in those conditions? Is it possible?

I was thinking a portable A/C but that can be damn expensive to run all day. Any ideas from the peeps dealing with these issues?

TIA

ps...Can't really keep the door to the room open cause of the smell, but you pros already knew that

look up do it your self portable ac. you can run them off car batteries and theyre made out of coolers. not always practical but if you cant think if anything might be worth looking into. also smell is not always an issue. there are strains that give off virtually no smell. ive got some northern lights in flower for 5 weeks now and taking a bowl hit anywhere in my apartment gives off a stronger smell than 4 of those plants more than halfway through flower, and when you can smell them it isnt a strong bud smell its actually really sweet and piney smelling.

Thanks for the reply

What I'm looking for is a way to vent those lights. I've tried a few configs but the only time it worked so far was when it was 55 degrees out. I was using the attic air for intake and exhaust and those lights stayed cool as hell until it got hot out again. The room was maybe 1 or 2 degrees above my A/C setting. If it stayed cool like that all the time I wouldn't have any problems.

That's why I asked the peeps who grow indoor in really hot areas. Maybe someone knows a way to keep those lamps cool. Otherwise I guess the portable A/C is the only other way.

There are water cooled lights.

sounds like u need an AC for summer

yeah dude, AC will do it well

Attic air during summer is like pouring gasoline on a fire in a hot climate. you already know this.

You have no choice unless you plan on moving to a cooler region. Regardless of where your intake is located during the summer its going to be extremely hot in that region.

Unless your intake is coming from another room in the house where the AC is constant and very cool.

Cool Tubes with the intake coming from an AC cooled room in the house and the exhaust through the attic. This would only be beneficial if you live in the same house as your growroom and you also run the AC in other rooms consistently.

otherwise AC unit for the growroom itself.