Using my discarded air to heat my house

Hashman0042

Hashman0042

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I dont see the piont of wasting warm air then paying the electric company to heat up more air. Does anyone use the air flow from there grow room to heat the house? I have been looking into this. Found a gel called ONA that bonds to the smell of weed or any odor. I hear it works great
 
steve870

steve870

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the best thing to do is to run ducting independently to cool your lights ( suck cold air outside, cool the light, reject it in your house). If you exhaust air from your tent or grow room in your houde you are probably going to wake up in a swamp. If you have a dehumidifier you could set up a carbon filter to prevent odours but it would still not be very efficient
 
xtsho

xtsho

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Hashman0042 said:
I dont see the piont of wasting warm air then paying the electric company to heat up more air. Does anyone use the air flow from there grow room to heat the house? I have been looking into this. Found a gel called ONA that bonds to the smell of weed or any odor. I hear it works great
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Whatever you do don't put that Ona gel where the air will come in contact with your plants. Use it in the room you're exhausting the air to. You don't want it around your plants.
 
Hashman0042

Hashman0042

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steve870 said:
the best thing to do is to run ducting independently to cool your lights ( suck cold air outside, cool the light, reject it in your house). If you exhaust air from your tent or grow room in your houde you are probably going to wake up in a swamp. If you have a dehumidifier you could set up a carbon filter to prevent odours but it would still not be very efficient
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I also use open air hoods reflector eith 3 600watt hps bulbs. I have been pretty successful so far. Been looking into led lighting as well or maybe just changing to the air cooled tube hoods
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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I used to exhaust right into my cold air return at my last grow. I had it set like: carbon filter -air cooled 1k hps- fan- duct -cold air return. My house only smelled like weed when I was harvesting. In the winter it helped with heating, but in the summer my A/C had to work harder.
 
Hashman0042

Hashman0042

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xtsho said:
Whatever you do don't put that Ona gel where the air will come in contact with your plants. Use it in the room you're exhausting the air to. You don't want it around your plants.
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Yeah thats one of the first things i read about. Would hate to sell some trees that tasted like a toilet mint lol
 
Richard Drysift

Richard Drysift

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Hashman0042 said:
Yeah thats one of the first things i read about. Would hate to sell some trees that tasted like a toilet mint lol
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Should be ok if you put the Ona like real far away from the plants. Just a cover up; its like incense. One of my homies once put a bowl of Ona in the grow tent. The weed tasted like a snuggle dryer sheet. Even the root ball was saturated with fragrance.
 
Nabbers

Nabbers

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Cold air holds less moisture, so if it's cold in your house it's probably also pretty dry. If you do raise your humidity from circulating the warm air from your grow through the rest of the house, I'd imagine it still wouldn't get it to an out of hand level. But I suppose it depends on how much humidity your grow room is producing and the volume of air in the room vs the volume of air in the rest of the house as well as your starting humidity in the home. I vent a 2x4 tent into my house which is at 30% humidity and it doesn't even make a dent in that number.
 
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Terpenoid

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I got a 3x3 tent in my bedroom. I have a carbon filter inside that takes care of the smell, but its just exhausting right into my room. It's actually awesome right now my room stays a nice warm temperature when the rest of the house is pretty cold. I suppose it would depend on your particular environment though.
 
Teag

Teag

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I use a 2' x 10' closet and exhaust into my house. In the summer I tapped into a duct for the air conditioning and closed it off when the furnace turned on. I have LED's though.

ONA gel is terrible IMO.
 
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