Anyone know anything about Blueprint CO2 controllers?

[hush]

No worries! Just having a little fun.

I actually checked out those standby generators you linked to up above, and while they are definitely off topic for this thread, I have to admit they are cool! A little pricy, but a great concept. I can see homeowners wanting to keep something like this around for if/when they lose power, like in a hurricane or something. I remember growing up in Florida my dad used to bust out a diesel generator to power the fridge and an air conditioner every time we lost power during a hurricane, and that damn thing was loud! The ones you linked to appear to be quiet.

But yeah, it's off topic.

 

[pezthetoker]

What's up hush. Looks like you have got this pretty well figured out. I suggested bottled gas because of the size of your tent itself. Now that I read you are using a lung room I'm sure your burner will work fine. How many btu is your window unit? You can get usually get away with about 4kbtu per thousand watts of hps light. I love my CO2, but if your Ac is big enough I would personally choose another light first.

 

[hush]

It's a 5000 btu unit. So, not big enough for 2000w of light, unfortunately.

 

[WaittillIdie]

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[pezthetoker]

Get the burner then sound like the perfect way to get your yields up. I have had my best results at 900 ppm. Search for a post called "the truth about CO2" that spurr made a few years back.

 

[hush]

Is this the thread you are talking about, pez?

 

[theother]

Is your lamp air cooled? I mean does it vent out to out? Or does it dump the heat from the lamp back in that lung room?

 

[hush]

I had originally planned on using a closed loop for cooling the lights, but when I tested things by just dumping the air right back into the room, I couldn't help but notice how things were staying perfectly cool in there. So, I went for the path of least resistance.

 

[pezthetoker]

Yes that is the thread I was speaking of. I do not believe in 1500 ppm of CO2 for best yields. I used to set my control to 1200 and do great, but I have gotten even better results with 900ppm. There is also other good info throughout that thread.

 

[theother]

I had originally planned on using a closed loop for cooling the lights, but when I tested things by just dumping the air right back into the room, I couldn't help but notice how things were staying perfectly cool in there. So, I went for the path of least resistance.

Lol smart man, thats what I was gonna say, you could probably get two lamps air cooled in the winter to work, but your gonna instantly need a dehu and that's gonna be more than the sc can handle. My dehus put off way more heat than my air cooled lamps.

Seems like with your current setup it will control the humidity of the gen too since the ac is working a bit. I like the stability you get from a constant heat load on an ac.

 

[pezthetoker]

Cap used to make a controller called a vsc-dne you could use in that situation. It is a variable fan speed controller that slows your fans down as you approach your temperature set point. That one also had seperate dials for day and night temperatures. If you used something like that on the closed loop, you could dial it in to make sure your Ac keep running for dehumidification and still have just enough fan power to maintain temperature. It really depends on how cold the air that cools your lamps will be though if 5kbtu will cool two 1k lights in that setup. That's just a thought... Not really ideal still. My real advice would be to stick with 1 lamp for now just like you are planning (I like that rather than complicating things). When you get out of that tent and are able to use the whole space in the future that will be a great day for you, but I would wait until you can get a bigger window unit or mini split. When you do it, get enough ac power to run two 1k lamps without glass and get the full benefits of your sealed room. You will need a dehu too and of course co2 setup ...so wait until you can go all out.

 

[theother]

Cap used to make a controller called a vsc-dne you could use in that situation. It is a variable fan speed controller that slows your fans down as you approach your temperature set point. That one also had seperate dials for day and night temperatures. If you used something like that on the closed loop, you could dial it in to make sure your Ac keep running for dehumidification and still have just enough fan power to maintain temperature. It really depends on how cold the air that cools your lamps will be though if 5kbtu will cool two 1k lights in that setup. That's just a thought... Not really ideal still. My real advice would be to stick with 1 lamp for now just like you are planning (I like that rather than complicating things). When you get out of that tent and are able to use the whole space in the future that will be a great day for you, but I would wait until you can get a bigger window unit or mini split. When you do it, get enough ac power to run two 1k lamps without glass and get the full benefits of your sealed room. You will need a dehu too and of course co2 setup ...so wait until you can go all out.

I remember those! Always thought they would be good for something like this, you could set them to always run a little but increase with a thermostat. Too bad cap is out of business. Hopefully another company comes up with something similar.

 

[pezthetoker]

Hydrofarm picked up some of caps product line, but I don't think vsc-dne is one of them.