I have ran into a major problem lately that needs to be fixed as soon as possible. As some of you might know I set up a grow room about eight months ago. It consists of 4 - 1000 watt HPS with bare bulbs vertical style. The room is sealed really well with B&W Panda Plastic and has an Elicent 200B fan exausting through a Can-100 Carbon Scrubber. This creates a vacuum in the room that allows no unscrubbed air to leave without first going through the scrubber. New air is pulled through structural leaks in the room and through the cold air vent. I relocated the return vent from the grow room to the next room over so no unscrubbed air would circulate. The scrubbed air is ejected out of the room to the joining room allowing me to have no air leaving the house thus being more stealthy. I am using the central air conditioner to cool the house and room and it has kept both perfect all summer with the way it is set up described above.
My problem is now that the colder weather is coming it seems with the way the room is set up the central air conditioner still needs to be running to keep the house cool for living and growing. At night when the lights come on the house gets so hot we need to put the air conditioner on just to be comfortable up stairs. The grow room also gets too hot. I wouldn't mind running the air all winter, but it looks weird to the neibours and I am worried it is going to raise a red flag. What the heck do I have the central air running when it's 15 degree's celcius out?
I am sure this set up will be okay when it gets really cold out, but right now it's inbetween and causeing me much stress. So much so that tonight I unplugged the lights early so I could shut off the air. The neibour will be leaving for work soon and I don't want him to see it running when it is so cold outside. Every other day has been warm enough to justify air, but tonight it's damb cold out! I don't want to take any chances. I have done everything perfect up until now and I don't want to loose my 'piece of mind' if you know what I mean. I need to fix this problem tomorrow so that I can get my plants under a regular routine. I don't want to screw things up now as they are three weeks into bud and looking great.
I have thought of a couple solutions that might work. I was thinking of getting a fan smaller than my carbon scrubber fan to pull cold air in from outside and disperse it up high into the room. If my exaust fan is larger than my intake fan I still should be able to keep a vaccum in the room to prevent smell. Do you think this will work?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am so worried and have to think of something for tomorrow. One night of lights off is okay, but I can't do it too often. So the sooner I fix this problem the better. Thanks in advance and I hope someone can help me! - soon please.
TGT
My problem is now that the colder weather is coming it seems with the way the room is set up the central air conditioner still needs to be running to keep the house cool for living and growing. At night when the lights come on the house gets so hot we need to put the air conditioner on just to be comfortable up stairs. The grow room also gets too hot. I wouldn't mind running the air all winter, but it looks weird to the neibours and I am worried it is going to raise a red flag. What the heck do I have the central air running when it's 15 degree's celcius out?
I am sure this set up will be okay when it gets really cold out, but right now it's inbetween and causeing me much stress. So much so that tonight I unplugged the lights early so I could shut off the air. The neibour will be leaving for work soon and I don't want him to see it running when it is so cold outside. Every other day has been warm enough to justify air, but tonight it's damb cold out! I don't want to take any chances. I have done everything perfect up until now and I don't want to loose my 'piece of mind' if you know what I mean. I need to fix this problem tomorrow so that I can get my plants under a regular routine. I don't want to screw things up now as they are three weeks into bud and looking great.
I have thought of a couple solutions that might work. I was thinking of getting a fan smaller than my carbon scrubber fan to pull cold air in from outside and disperse it up high into the room. If my exaust fan is larger than my intake fan I still should be able to keep a vaccum in the room to prevent smell. Do you think this will work?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am so worried and have to think of something for tomorrow. One night of lights off is okay, but I can't do it too often. So the sooner I fix this problem the better. Thanks in advance and I hope someone can help me! - soon please.
TGT
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