Stanley Blower for Cool Tube?

Does anyone know if you can use the Stanley Blower mod for cooling a 6" cool tube for a 400W HPS? I plan to hook the 6" duct to the intake on the blower and let it pull cool air through the tube over the light and out the box. The blower would be outside the box pulling the air and blowing it out into an adjacent space(Spare Bedroom). I am thinking about hooking up a DIY Carbon Filter to the exhaust end of the blower so it pulls air over lamp, through duct, out blower and through filter into spare room. I am just concerned that the blower is too strong to just cool the cool tube. Has anyone else done this or know a way to do it with PC Fans? Thanks,

I did almost the same thing, except i used it to push air in, over the bulb and out through a 6" inline duct fan at like 130cfm i think? I'm not sure what the blower was but it was plastic yellow stanley, like 35 at home depot, so i'm guessin it's similar to yours? It kept my cabinet right around 78 and i was just venting into my bedroom. Kept my AC on like 72 in the house.

Have you made your stanley mod yet?

Great to hear from you guys. I have not done my mod yet, but have started building the Veg box. I am still planning to use the Stanley to cool my light and filter the box, just trying to figure out how to carbon filter some PC fans too for extra ventilation. I have some nice 90 CFM 120MM PC Fans that I am going to hook up also in the flowering box with the stanley hookup.

UpInVapor said:

Great to hear from you guys. I have not done my mod yet, but have started building the Veg box. I am still planning to use the Stanley to cool my light and filter the box, just trying to figure out how to carbon filter some PC fans too for extra ventilation. I have some nice 90 CFM 120MM PC Fans that I am going to hook up also in the flowering box with the stanley hookup.

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dude, the stanleys are not worth the effort. Even if you get one for $40 after parts youre looking at $75, then you have to waste a couple hours putting it together. And i can say with full confidence that they dont pull what most people think. 200cfm at the most. You can get a hydrofarm active air 400cfm for $90 shipped. If you live anywhere where it gets up to 90 in the summers your gonna thank me for recommending the bigger fan. Get the fan, get the sealed hood and def. get the filter and grow some kind buds. But dont ghetto your way through it because like pretty much everything else in life you get what you pay for. im out.

lol classic. i remember 4 years ago when inlines were an investment, well not that big of a diifff. this blower, well 3 of them did the job! ^^ yea the blower wasnt very high pressure so make sure venting is very minimal (imagine your custom piping intake/turbo for a car) short n sweet.
even for a small cab .you could just set it atop the cab and duct from the top so for the price and availability it wasnt a bad buy back then . even now possibly for the personal grower

I don't know why that guy thinks its going to cost $75 for the fan after the mod, but he's wrong. You buy an extra 5 or 6" colar for no more than $10 and silicone and the mod is done besides the ducting you have to buy. I use one on low setting and it drops the temps in my cab by almost 20 degrees right now, and that's with no ducting running to my hood. My stanley fan just started making a noise after running for close to 2 years so ill be buying another once walmart gets them in stock again.

Yeah I agree with mafia, like i said I lived in a place where it was regularly 95+ in the summer in a 5'X4'X20" cabinet, a 400w lumatek dual ballast with agrosun mh and hps, ran through a cool tube. Like he said, you can get a cheap collar that fits over the blower, don't worry about modding it to pull air through, just push air through, they run at somewhere around 400cfm. Duct the blower straight to the cooltube, attach an inline fan directly to the other side of the cool tube. To run a carbon filter it will be necessary to use both as it will cause a little back pressure and that little bit of pressure without the correct flow rate will cause heat build up in the tube which will slowly increase the average heat of the cabinet/closet/whereever. The inline fan and the blower with collar and ducting you can get at a home depot or lowes or wherever for around $90, and they are reliable so you dont have to worry much about them burning out. If you're on a budget with your setup, there's no need to order something specifically for growing (as it will be more expensive), it's easy to just repurpose something cheaper, and more fun i think. For instance, I am building a fogger/dwc 400mh/600hps setup. I could buy the nutramist fogger and a prebuilt dwc system for like 800 or i could design it to my specs, and build those two components for about 250. Basic schematics of my old cooling sytem:

-->in--->blower---->cooltube---->6"inline fan----->carbon filter-----> out-->

thermostat set to 72F, 74F ambient room, 78F cab, 80-95F+ outside, never burned out.

mafia - do you have the stanley blower just sucking the hot air out the top of the tent? I'm about to attempt that method using a 600w HPS to suck the heat out of a tent thats roughly 4x10 ft. I plan to suck out the to and expel it out of the window. The tent will have a couple of passive air intake holes and the room it is in is cooled to a constant 72F.

Thanks all for the advice. I think I am going to use a regular inline fan.