Serious humidity problems...
- Thread starter ZerocoolSmith
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DarlingMaster
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82 in a sealed and co2'd room (you do have co2, right?) is near ideal. I keep my lights on temps @80...
The fix to your problem is to set manually change the cooling temp when the lights go off. Set it to 75 or so. The dehumidifiers will kick on and heat up the air as it dries, the heat will cause the AC to cool, which will lower the humidity as well. The heat from the dehumidifiers and the AC go back/fourth all night. I'm in Florida and we deal with humidity and the only way to successfully grow indoors here is sealed, co2'd, AC'd and dehumidified.
And shut your exhaust off. Give things a chance to work.
The fix to your problem is to set manually change the cooling temp when the lights go off. Set it to 75 or so. The dehumidifiers will kick on and heat up the air as it dries, the heat will cause the AC to cool, which will lower the humidity as well. The heat from the dehumidifiers and the AC go back/fourth all night. I'm in Florida and we deal with humidity and the only way to successfully grow indoors here is sealed, co2'd, AC'd and dehumidified.
And shut your exhaust off. Give things a chance to work.
ZerocoolSmith
Active Member
putting them on the floor solved it.
I dont think you can hook up a timer to a mini split AC. Theyre hard wired into the electrical and run off 240. You cant just unplug them.
But so far so good by just lowering the de humidifiers. I got a condensate pump and its hassle free.
Its spikes here and there to %70 but only for such a short period of time. Its pretty consistent at %50 now.
I dont think you can hook up a timer to a mini split AC. Theyre hard wired into the electrical and run off 240. You cant just unplug them.
But so far so good by just lowering the de humidifiers. I got a condensate pump and its hassle free.
Its spikes here and there to %70 but only for such a short period of time. Its pretty consistent at %50 now.
jijiandfarmgang
Well-Known Member
If your air conditioner auto resumes to settings after electric cut off, what snaps said is a great idea. I wish I would have thought of it lol.
It sounds complicated, but for an electrician it would be simple and the contactor would be cheap.
Then again I don't know if it would ever need to run to keep the dehumidifiers from heating up the room during lights off. (and if you were really crafty, you could get around that by using a different trigger system such as a plc.......)
- Jiji
It sounds complicated, but for an electrician it would be simple and the contactor would be cheap.
Then again I don't know if it would ever need to run to keep the dehumidifiers from heating up the room during lights off. (and if you were really crafty, you could get around that by using a different trigger system such as a plc.......)
- Jiji
SnapsProvolone
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Try adding 5 degrees at 1500 PPM CO2. Metabolic rate is directly proportional to heat until about 87 - 90f canopy depending on system used. Running too cool leaves yield on the table.