apartmentblower
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hi all hope everyone had a good weekend
my setup is like this....
a 8x8x7 tent with 4x 600w on cooltubes, each two tubes are cooled by a 6" s&p 312cfm. The tent is in a room just slightly larger than the tent itself, with an attached bathroom and closet, and the closet has a direct access in ceiling into attic through removable wood panel. the closet is going to have approx 200 watts of t5's for cloning and the bathroom will have a couple mother plants under approx 800watts of hid
its a new rental and id like to avoid damaging it (yah i know you can easily patch up ceilings, but with rentals you gotta be ready for anything and not having a freshly painted patch in the ceiling is a good advantage if someone comes by, however small the chance may be...), so heres my options that i see (please feel free to add your own opinion)
1. Venting each pair of 600w lights with a 312 cfm 6" fan pulling through each their own Canfilter 50 (2 filters total) in the tent, so the fans vent the tent and cool the lights as well as scrub the air in the tent itself (yah i know the fan shouldnt be pulling hot air but i can handle replacing 6" fans every year). Then having an 8" or 10" fan in the attic cover ventilating the entire room + bathroom air into the attic through attic cover (and having a spare wood cover without a hole in it to replace it with) and having open window as passive intake. no carbon filter on attic fan because the tents already filtered and most vegging and clone plants dont smell much and if they do i can just run a vaportek or a small standalone recirc scrubber. This has the advantage of scrubbing all the flowering air before it leaves the tent itself, as well as providing ventilation for the entire room (tent, bathroom, closet) through the attic fan.
2. identical as option 1, but without the carbon filters in the tent, and have a bigger carbon filter on the fan in the attic. this would save having to buy and rig up two seperate filters for the tent and with the added benefit of scrubbing the air from the entire grow, bathroom, closet, and tent in all. the disadvantage of this is the flowering smell would not be contained in the tent itself, but would be getting sucked out of tent into the attic and stopping by in the room on its way up
3. venting the 6" fans directly into the attic through attic cover in closet after being scrubbed and exhausting lights and forgoing the standalone attic exhaust. this is the simplest but it has the disadvantage of not providing circulation for mother and clone room. disadvantage #2 being the ducting from the tent would moreso curvy and turny and possibly be a pain to work with as well as an eyesore.
option #1 seems like the winner to me for the fact that its dead simple to drop just a fan into the attic cover to ventilate hot and scrubbed air from the tent out, option #2 is a bit easier as far as the tent goes because i dont have to make room for hanging 2 carbon filters in the tent, and just worry about getting one in the closet-attic vent, but then again, flowering smells would be leaving the tent into the room before they get scrubbed out the attic. option #3 seems like it would not provide enough ventilation... without the attic fan i wouldnt get as much negative pressure sucking in cold air from window
also, i was planning on just blowing into the attic. i had a look up there, its not easy to get in, but the bathroom vents are vented straight from the bathroom out the roof through insulated ducting, but there are some ventilation holes (not fans) that allow light in... they are about 6"x3" and there are about 6 or 7 of them... do i need a fan mounted on my actual roof sucking air out the ceiling, or can these passive vents allow the air im pushing in through the attic cover out ???
my setup is like this....
a 8x8x7 tent with 4x 600w on cooltubes, each two tubes are cooled by a 6" s&p 312cfm. The tent is in a room just slightly larger than the tent itself, with an attached bathroom and closet, and the closet has a direct access in ceiling into attic through removable wood panel. the closet is going to have approx 200 watts of t5's for cloning and the bathroom will have a couple mother plants under approx 800watts of hid
its a new rental and id like to avoid damaging it (yah i know you can easily patch up ceilings, but with rentals you gotta be ready for anything and not having a freshly painted patch in the ceiling is a good advantage if someone comes by, however small the chance may be...), so heres my options that i see (please feel free to add your own opinion)
1. Venting each pair of 600w lights with a 312 cfm 6" fan pulling through each their own Canfilter 50 (2 filters total) in the tent, so the fans vent the tent and cool the lights as well as scrub the air in the tent itself (yah i know the fan shouldnt be pulling hot air but i can handle replacing 6" fans every year). Then having an 8" or 10" fan in the attic cover ventilating the entire room + bathroom air into the attic through attic cover (and having a spare wood cover without a hole in it to replace it with) and having open window as passive intake. no carbon filter on attic fan because the tents already filtered and most vegging and clone plants dont smell much and if they do i can just run a vaportek or a small standalone recirc scrubber. This has the advantage of scrubbing all the flowering air before it leaves the tent itself, as well as providing ventilation for the entire room (tent, bathroom, closet) through the attic fan.
2. identical as option 1, but without the carbon filters in the tent, and have a bigger carbon filter on the fan in the attic. this would save having to buy and rig up two seperate filters for the tent and with the added benefit of scrubbing the air from the entire grow, bathroom, closet, and tent in all. the disadvantage of this is the flowering smell would not be contained in the tent itself, but would be getting sucked out of tent into the attic and stopping by in the room on its way up
3. venting the 6" fans directly into the attic through attic cover in closet after being scrubbed and exhausting lights and forgoing the standalone attic exhaust. this is the simplest but it has the disadvantage of not providing circulation for mother and clone room. disadvantage #2 being the ducting from the tent would moreso curvy and turny and possibly be a pain to work with as well as an eyesore.
option #1 seems like the winner to me for the fact that its dead simple to drop just a fan into the attic cover to ventilate hot and scrubbed air from the tent out, option #2 is a bit easier as far as the tent goes because i dont have to make room for hanging 2 carbon filters in the tent, and just worry about getting one in the closet-attic vent, but then again, flowering smells would be leaving the tent into the room before they get scrubbed out the attic. option #3 seems like it would not provide enough ventilation... without the attic fan i wouldnt get as much negative pressure sucking in cold air from window
also, i was planning on just blowing into the attic. i had a look up there, its not easy to get in, but the bathroom vents are vented straight from the bathroom out the roof through insulated ducting, but there are some ventilation holes (not fans) that allow light in... they are about 6"x3" and there are about 6 or 7 of them... do i need a fan mounted on my actual roof sucking air out the ceiling, or can these passive vents allow the air im pushing in through the attic cover out ???
