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Stanley Blower Fan Mod

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Hydro-Soil

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Ace Hardware had this fan on the shelf, in my area, last week. Score!!
Home Depot doesn't stock them around here and I refuse to shop at WallFart.

6" flexible ducting, Aluminum tape, 6" starter collar, some cardboard from the box the fan came in and I piped the output directly to the intake of my window A/C unit. ($99 Home DeCannabis)

Keeps my area at a toasty 71F at that's with 150wpsqft using a 1K HPS in an almost 3' by 4 foot area. :yoinks:


The question you gotta ask yourself is...... Do you think it's growing, Punk!?
Well..... Do ya?!

:D We'll see. :D
 
xlatit

xlatit

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I saw these in Walmart today. Then i saw they had one on in a section where they were cleaning. There seemed to be a lof air moving around and not much noise. Not something you could exactly hear behind closed doors. Hmmm. Ideas....
 
M

masterKahn

Been using my Stanley fan with 6" -> 4" reducer used it to air cool a 1000w hood and now my CFL box, it's a work horse and cheap!
 
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Carboy

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xlatit said:
Is there anything that is more quiet than this fan but works about as well?
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Everybody's relation to sound is different. But put this bitch pulling thru insulated duct into a sound deadened box and it works for me. Plus by a watts per volume of pressured air moved, impossible to beat.

CB
 
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Carboy

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SoFreshnSOGreen said:
$36 bucks at good ol wally world
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'Tis the season ....
Time of the yr to be keeping an eye out for the fan deals at your local grow shops -- Lowes, HD, Wally etc.
What section to they keep the blowers in Walmart? Rarely go and they rearranged between my last visits. Hate the damn place, but not bad enough i can score on a hit & run.
Thanks -------- CB
 
S

SoFreshnSOGreen

Carboy said:
'Tis the season ....
Time of the yr to be keeping an eye out for the fan deals at your local grow shops -- Lowes, HD, Wally etc.
What section to they keep the blowers in Walmart? Rarely go and they rearranged between my last visits. Hate the damn place, but not bad enough i can score on a hit & run.
Thanks -------- CB
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heh - near painting stuffs - ask for vortex fans, for me was just a few isles over... its with the other stuff like drills and wrench sets at the local wallyworld ^^:abduct:
 
S

ShoeboxSherman

Still going

Still going

Have used mine for a year now almost continuously pulling through a hood, 400W cmh, plus dragon filter. Keeps temps ca. 4 degrees above ambient, smooth, fairly quiet. A good economical choice.
 
H

Hydro-Soil

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One 20X20" 3M furnace filter restricts the airflow too much and things heat up in my grow.

I'm looking for a simple cardboard light trap design that will work with 2 20x20" furnace filters in it and not slow down my 250cfm Stanley. I figure with two filters I can get enough air-flow that things will work the way they do now.

The opening the light-trap needs to cover is approximately 22x22".

Any suggestions?

(This is messing with me for some reason and I can't picture it in my head yet. :()

Edit: Turns out the major issues were with the cardboard not being cut square. Wierd but as soon as I cut the tattered edges off I was able to quickly figure out how to cut and tape it to make a light trap. Gah! Autism is NOT fun for a lot of things for me. Doesn't help that I've been running on leaf for a week or so now. Heh.
 
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BNG

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heading to walmart today

got 3 in less then a 30 min drive, hopefully the first one that is up the road has it so i don't have to burn gas but hope at least one of them got it even if i have to drive b/c $50 from HD shipped isn't worth waiting when i can pay the same or even cheaper at walmart + gas
 
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