Hello . This is my first post here so greetings everyone.....
Air conditioners - what shall I do?
I have a grow tent which is 3 metres by 2 metres by 2 metres high.
This is actually within another room, so there is a few feet around each side of the grow tent.
Air is begin passively intaken into the tent from the room (I have the door slightly ajar) and the window is open in there. At night a fan draws fresh air in from the window.
The air from the tent is being exhausted upstairs to the loft.
My probelm is - obviously temps. I am hitting about 93 degrees (34'c) even with my adequate ventilation (the extractor fan is 1000m3 per hour, the intake fan is about 500m3 an hour. - so I think that's adequate, yes?) I think because it gets quite hot in my flat.
Now I was thinking of getting an air conditioner, otherwise I will just be pulling scrappy bits out of there - the increase in yield hoefully will pay for the air conditioner (and the leccy it takes to use it). At the moment believe this or not it looks like I've managed abotu 50 grams under a 600w light which is pathetic and suggests to me that it's too hot in there. Usually I kind of do ok yield wise (at least 1/2 g per w).
Problems -
Can't get a window air con - wrong sort of windows. Can't get a wall air con, it's a rented property. So it'll have to be a portable one.
These only seem to come with about 1.5 metres of ducting. Now I could duct it out of the window of the room where the grow tent is, but I just feel unhappy about that, becasue all the neighbours will see the ducting sticking out of the window. I know in itself it's just air conditioner ducting but paranoia kicks in, I'm sure you lot know what I mean (this particular window is in public view). Also I was worried about smell, although it won't actually be inside the tent, but in the gap between the outside of the tent and the walls of the room that it's in.
Can't duct up to the loft - don't want any more holes in cieling, plus the ducting won't actually reach up there either.
I was thinkikng of ducting out of the bathroom window - makeshift I know but I don't get any visitors.
However I understand that it's bad to extend the exhausts on these things due to "pressure" issues and the unit overheating. I would need to extend out to about 5 metres to do this.
Questions -
How can I do this? It's frustrating, I'm prepared to buy one and it doesn't seem practical to set it up in any way - I can't work it out.
Also - say on a 12,000 BTU unit what kind of temp reduction could I expect. Is it worth it?
Sorry to make my first post a long one. Any help would be majorly appreciated, as I only have a short time frame to get my next batch up and running. And I don't want to set them up to witness them frying like the ones that are in there at the moment.
Air conditioners - what shall I do?
I have a grow tent which is 3 metres by 2 metres by 2 metres high.
This is actually within another room, so there is a few feet around each side of the grow tent.
Air is begin passively intaken into the tent from the room (I have the door slightly ajar) and the window is open in there. At night a fan draws fresh air in from the window.
The air from the tent is being exhausted upstairs to the loft.
My probelm is - obviously temps. I am hitting about 93 degrees (34'c) even with my adequate ventilation (the extractor fan is 1000m3 per hour, the intake fan is about 500m3 an hour. - so I think that's adequate, yes?) I think because it gets quite hot in my flat.
Now I was thinking of getting an air conditioner, otherwise I will just be pulling scrappy bits out of there - the increase in yield hoefully will pay for the air conditioner (and the leccy it takes to use it). At the moment believe this or not it looks like I've managed abotu 50 grams under a 600w light which is pathetic and suggests to me that it's too hot in there. Usually I kind of do ok yield wise (at least 1/2 g per w).
Problems -
Can't get a window air con - wrong sort of windows. Can't get a wall air con, it's a rented property. So it'll have to be a portable one.
These only seem to come with about 1.5 metres of ducting. Now I could duct it out of the window of the room where the grow tent is, but I just feel unhappy about that, becasue all the neighbours will see the ducting sticking out of the window. I know in itself it's just air conditioner ducting but paranoia kicks in, I'm sure you lot know what I mean (this particular window is in public view). Also I was worried about smell, although it won't actually be inside the tent, but in the gap between the outside of the tent and the walls of the room that it's in.
Can't duct up to the loft - don't want any more holes in cieling, plus the ducting won't actually reach up there either.
I was thinkikng of ducting out of the bathroom window - makeshift I know but I don't get any visitors.
However I understand that it's bad to extend the exhausts on these things due to "pressure" issues and the unit overheating. I would need to extend out to about 5 metres to do this.
Questions -
How can I do this? It's frustrating, I'm prepared to buy one and it doesn't seem practical to set it up in any way - I can't work it out.
Also - say on a 12,000 BTU unit what kind of temp reduction could I expect. Is it worth it?
Sorry to make my first post a long one. Any help would be majorly appreciated, as I only have a short time frame to get my next batch up and running. And I don't want to set them up to witness them frying like the ones that are in there at the moment.
