Ok, so here's what's up. I have a 4 kw flower room. All the lights are in sealed hoods in a sealed loop, with fresh outside air going thru them, and out of the room thru carbon filters. The room is sealed with co2, and ac.There are two flood tables each with their own res. The big table has a 100 gal. cattle trough, and the smaller table has a 50 gal cattle trough. Both res's are not covered. Even though I have 150 gals. of open water the humidity doesn't go above 36% when the lights are jamming. Even when they are off and the ac and co2 are off the humidity only gets up to 56%.
Now I think part of the problem is the furnace to the house is in the room right outside the flower room. Another shitty thing is that there is a heat duct from the furnace that goes into the flower room and it doesn't have a shutoff valve anywhere on the ductwork, I checked it real good last night. The vent in the flower room is at the bottom of a wall and doesn't have a shutoff on it either. So last night I stapled some heavy duty plastic over it( same plastic I cover everything in for reflectivity), in hopes of stopping some of the warm dry air from going into the flower room.
I know some obvious fixes for that problem would be to buy a piece of duct with a shut off, and replace a piece of the ductwork with it. But I don't know if I can afford to do that, because I don't want temps to get to low with the lights off. I don't have a lot of spare money at the moment or I would get an electrical damper control and put it on a timer.
I have a spare 50 gal. cattle trough, that I'm gonna fill with water to sit under the big table, to hopefully add some humidity to the room. I really would like to put it close to where the heat vent is, but then I would be adding warm air to a room I'm trying to keep cool during lights on. My room get's to 86 with the lights on, and that's the temp at canopy level, so it's perfect. I just need to figure out a way to get the humidity up. Buying foggers isn't an option right now, as I don't have the money for that. So any diy input on how to solve this problem is greatly appreciated!!! Almost forgot the room is 12 'x 10', with 8' ceilings.
Now I think part of the problem is the furnace to the house is in the room right outside the flower room. Another shitty thing is that there is a heat duct from the furnace that goes into the flower room and it doesn't have a shutoff valve anywhere on the ductwork, I checked it real good last night. The vent in the flower room is at the bottom of a wall and doesn't have a shutoff on it either. So last night I stapled some heavy duty plastic over it( same plastic I cover everything in for reflectivity), in hopes of stopping some of the warm dry air from going into the flower room.
I know some obvious fixes for that problem would be to buy a piece of duct with a shut off, and replace a piece of the ductwork with it. But I don't know if I can afford to do that, because I don't want temps to get to low with the lights off. I don't have a lot of spare money at the moment or I would get an electrical damper control and put it on a timer.
I have a spare 50 gal. cattle trough, that I'm gonna fill with water to sit under the big table, to hopefully add some humidity to the room. I really would like to put it close to where the heat vent is, but then I would be adding warm air to a room I'm trying to keep cool during lights on. My room get's to 86 with the lights on, and that's the temp at canopy level, so it's perfect. I just need to figure out a way to get the humidity up. Buying foggers isn't an option right now, as I don't have the money for that. So any diy input on how to solve this problem is greatly appreciated!!! Almost forgot the room is 12 'x 10', with 8' ceilings.
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Glad people are learning from my fuck ups. Thats why I suppose we all do this after all; Learn from others and hope to avoid their mistakes.
