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desertrat

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either the second fan or a stronger 4" fan. you could probably use a 250 because of the backpressure of the filter. a 6" fan requires 6" ducting and provides more airflow than your room needs
 

chiefa

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either the second fan or a stronger 4" fan. you could probably use a 250 because of the backpressure of the filter. a 6" fan requires 6" ducting and provides more airflow than your room needs
the only thing is that everything over 200cfm is 6".
is a 6" vent to big
 

desertrat

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the 170 will change your air 3 times a minute which is bordeline but probably sufficient. a 6" line in your space would be overkill
 

halzey68

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i have a 4" high velocit fan cooling 2 1000w in a 8wx11lx8h room. try to mount your carbon filter in an "exhaust" position. i made a enclosed box to hold the filter(kind of like a speaker box/particle board), mounted that in the window seal and sealed the window light & air tight. Window is open 3 inches with miniblinds, box is vented to the outside. from the outside , all you see is miniblinds and window screen. connect your ducting from the filter to the fan so the fan is "pushing" air out the filter( make this run of ducting as short as possible. Next run you ducting to the light( now your fan is sucking air through the light). This does a couple things , all the little seams and holes in the light hood are now little vacumn's instead of hot air leaks. I leave 1 side of the light ducting open to room temp, this helps to remove heat from around the light. you should also have an exhaust fan as high in the room as possible, i put mine directly over my lights.
mine flowsas follows; outside<filter<fan<"Y" adapter<2-1000w sunsystem sealed hoods< open to room(< direction of air flow). I can REST my hand on top of my hoods after thy have been on 16-18 hours. plus my room is staying about 72-76f. heres a cople picture of the filter box. i found out the hard way its better to suck air through your lights that to try and push air through.
 

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chiefa

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ty guys good info . i think i will go with the 6" vortex because i can controll the speed with this

The Speedster is a great multi-purpose speed control. Three settings include off, on (full) and variable. Simply use the dial to increase or decrease fan motor speed. 120 volt/15 amps.
NOTE: For use with brush-type motors only (i.e. Vortex, Fantech, Elicent, etc.). Not for use with blowers (i.e. Dayton, Active Air, etc.).
thanks again chiefa
 
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