co2 burner with no ac 3k air cooled wintertime

[grassfarmer]

Im doing 3k in a 6x15 partition of a bedroom, and my question is about CO2
I would like to use a CO2 burner, but was not planning on using ac. I am in a cold long winter area. I know that the burner creates heat, but was thinking that if I overkill the ventilation I could get it cool enough to keep the burner running enough to make a difference. I was have a 10" vortex for exhaust, an 8" to pull the lights, and a 6" to push the lights, and another 6" for room intake. My concern is that with all those lights, and no ac, the room might not give the burner a chance to fill the room. I have not purchased a burner yet, but was thinking the bigger the better for quickness.

 

[Pandemic]

Think about kerosene heaters.

I was going to use my Gen-1 and PPM-3 that has been sitting around all summer. Now It's just going to sit there all winter too.

Here's why:

Deciding that more lights would be cooler than running the 'ol electric heat I went out and bought 3 kerosene heaters and a few drums of K-1...about 700.

I was just trying one out (23K BTU convection type) and after running on full for about 20 - 30 minutes in the center of the house, my flower room was in the 2000 + ppms. I did have the CHA fan running to circulate air through the duct work. This is my winter solution.

4 Drums of K-1

I have 4738 lbs of CO2 just waiting in there, and along with that I will get darn near 30 Million BTUs of heat!

Some numbers:

21.537 pounds of CO2 per gallon of Kerosene C10H22
12.64 pounds of CO2 per gallon of Propane C3H8

Kerosene appx. 135K BTU per gallon

1 gallon of 1-K kerosene has a BTU equivalence of approximately 40 kilowatt hours. (135,000 Btu and 3,413 Btu/KwHr).

Get it on!

So now instead of messing with that thermostat I will add 2000 more watts of flower power. My electric bill will be running the same (for winter use) and the graph will look right. Rooms will be warm.


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[Purkle]

Nice work my friend!! Sound like a great plan. I assume it is safe to breathe 2000ppms daily?

 

[Pandemic]

I'll keep it in check.

I bought a CO and COO detector and I have the PPM-3 to get an accurate count. Bought fire extinguishers too.

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[CannaDestroyer]

hey grassfarmer i'm way late for an answer but maybe this will help you or someone else that stumbles on this thread. what i would do is switch your intake and exhaust around so that you have a 10" intake and 6" exhaust. turn the exhaust off unless you need to further cool the room. this will allow for a better build up of co2 as you are not actively sucking it out of the room. i assume that you don't have a controler, so just run your generator as much as your room temp allows. i shoot for 78-80 deg on the leaf surface when using co2.