scrubbing smells at night / to bypass exhuast?

[lysol]

Im hooking up a carbon scrubber to my cooltube, I am concerned by ACing my attic 12hrs a night raising my already high bills, and also am worried about turning off the scrubber for 12hrs a day allowing smells to seep out mid night when its the worst

Is the proper way to rig a cooltube with scrubber, to somehow rig a Y adapter with duct valve relays wired to my light's timer? The air is scrubbed and all but why risk it plus why make my hvac work harder? I definitely would like to scrub the smell at night, but dont want to pay to cool my attic.. should I have gotten 2 scrubbers or what?

Edit: Also would it problemsome to attic vent in an apartment? scrubber is 50lbs of carbon growing like 4 plants, should I worry about any remaining smells transferring to the exhaust at all? My attic has passive vents like 10ft from a neighbors window they could open in the winter. Our attics are partitioned so air from my attic cant go to his attic, just out this vent.

Oh yeah and I bought 2 fans, I guess just shutting off the attic fan at night would solve the problem of dumping cold air into an attic or would that cause air to rush back in thru, the fans are centrifugal.

 

[xlatit]

This sounds like a pretty complex problem. Have you considered getting an ozium-type of spray or gel? Also there is stuff made by vaportech for this type of thing. I would say make a picture becaase this is confusing. Where it seeps out makes all the difference and that is not well defined. Not griping just trying to help.

 

[lysol]

Hopefully this illustrates the goal. Utilizing the scrubber 24hrs and the exhaust 12hrs a day. I have all kinds of odor masking in place but I hear it is good to run your filter 24/7

The other question is with a 50lb scrubber and 4 plants or so is there any way someone smelling the exhaust within a close proximity could detect leaking odors or does the scrubber remove 100% of what passes thru

And oh boy does exhausting the heat make oh the world of difference, 400CFM centrifugal fan turned basically all the way down, a sheet of paper sticks to the side of my hugeass scrubber, I lit an incense and couldnt smell anything at the exhaust but thats not the same as a flowering plant, before I opened the door and hit 85F ambient, now I have door closed and run at 76F ambient. I can finally touch the tube which runs 120F instead of 180F and the fan turned down is quieter then my duct booster(s)

 

[lysol]

Bump. For now I am running the exhaust only during lights on, is this normal practice when the scrubber is attached to your exhaust? I will look into getting a 2nd scrubber and have 1 running all day but for now does anyone know of any temporary fixes?

I assume it would be a BAD idea to filter the room and have no filter directly on the exhaust duct?

I saw this: http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=127544 but my fans already run really low and keep things cool, I guess the idea is to not waste A/C and keep the filter running while still being able to simultaneously use my filter to scrub my exhaust in the daytime.

If they made 1 way valve ducts I could hook up a Y and put 2 fans.

I could intake from another room but that room smells like weed too, lol.

 

[xlatit]

I have heard of growers filtering in a sealed room. If you check out urbangrower he visits some guy with a ton of cool-tubed lights. The room has two big can filters and it just sucks the cool air through it. Completely sealed.

 

[Leviathan]

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