guitarguy10
Well-Known Member
I'm growing this summer with a 600W (dimmed to 400W atm) air cooled reflector (sold LED going back to HID for now). Anyways, I have it dimmed to 400W and shit is hot, like really hot.
I had it setup so that one fan (406CFM) draws air into the hood and back out to exhaust out on the other end of my room (so to keep the hoods ventillation somewhat isolated from the tent) and I have a 203CFM fan also exhausting, but from inside the tent (attached to a carbon filter). Intake has been purely passive.
I just recently got a 293CFM fan for like $20 so I am hoping that having an active source of intaking air might help, but I really have no clue and this ventillation stuff is over my head.
You'll note from the pic the biggest glaring problem which is that the intake is coming from inside the room, the only other option would be to take it from the attic that's right above my room but I assume intaking that air would be a lot hotter.
In any event, once the grow tent and my bedroom have reached a state of equilibrium there is a delta of up to 9F between the rooms temp and the grow tent. I know there must be a way to get the temps in the tent closer to my rooms temp, I just don't know how.
Any advice on how to best utilize a 6" AC infinity fan (406CFM), a 4" vivosun fan (203CFM) and a 6" vortex vtx600L (293CFM) whose only exhaust source is a window on the other side of the room, and only intake is the room itself, or the attic above me?
I had it setup so that one fan (406CFM) draws air into the hood and back out to exhaust out on the other end of my room (so to keep the hoods ventillation somewhat isolated from the tent) and I have a 203CFM fan also exhausting, but from inside the tent (attached to a carbon filter). Intake has been purely passive.
I just recently got a 293CFM fan for like $20 so I am hoping that having an active source of intaking air might help, but I really have no clue and this ventillation stuff is over my head.
You'll note from the pic the biggest glaring problem which is that the intake is coming from inside the room, the only other option would be to take it from the attic that's right above my room but I assume intaking that air would be a lot hotter.
In any event, once the grow tent and my bedroom have reached a state of equilibrium there is a delta of up to 9F between the rooms temp and the grow tent. I know there must be a way to get the temps in the tent closer to my rooms temp, I just don't know how.
Any advice on how to best utilize a 6" AC infinity fan (406CFM), a 4" vivosun fan (203CFM) and a 6" vortex vtx600L (293CFM) whose only exhaust source is a window on the other side of the room, and only intake is the room itself, or the attic above me?