Some questions about grow tent setup

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diethylamine

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Hello, I am about to start growing and would like some advice about my setup. I am planning on ordering the Secret Jardin Dark Room 2.5 240W grow tent which is 4' x 8' x 6.6'. Inside I will have 2x 600 watt cool tube lights. I will connect the lights with insulated ducting and exhaust outside the tent. I live in a cabin with essentially one big room and a loft. I am planning to partially heat my cabin with hot air from the exhaust.

One question I have is about the inline ducting fan I will need. Since the grow tent will be basically in the same room I will be sleeping, I will need a quiet fan. I can deal with some noise, but preferably not much louder than a typical oscillating fan on medium. I am thinking I would get an 8 in fan (which is more CFM than I need) and use a speed controller to reduce speed as I heard that would be cheaper than a 6 in fan without a speed controller. This is the fan I am considering buying because people say they are quiet, but it doesn't really look like a ducting fan to me. Is it?

http://www.amazon.com/Can-Fan-Inline-8-Inch-Minute/dp/B001I4DHJI/ref=sr_1_3?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1437053709&sr=1-3&keywords=can fan

Is this actually what I need if I want a fan that I can connect to ducting?

http://www.amazon.com/Can-Output-Centrifugal-Inline-Fan/dp/B001I4BFWY/ref=sr_1_4?s=lawn-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1437054337&sr=1-4&keywords=can fan

How reasonable is it to think that I will be able to sleep in the same room as the fan? I figured with insulated ducting, and maybe a muffler I could cut the noise enough, but what do you think?

BTW, I live in a state where MJ is recreational legal and don't mind my place smelling like bud, so I don't plan to get a carbon filter, at least not initially. Unless it would significantly help reduce noise from the fan - what do you think?
 
WhoopDeeDoo

WhoopDeeDoo

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I'm in a 10x5 ft tent and have an 8" for my inline and it is Perfect.

So yea, I'd go with a 6" inline for yours since yours is a 4x8.

Also, fwiw, some inlines are quitter then others……… good luck.
 
Gquebed

Gquebed

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Not much you can do about the noise.... maybe build a box around it and throw some insulation around the ducting.

A problem you might run into, depending on the size of your place, is that as the room fills with hot air it recirculates and goes in bck across the lights making it even warmer and warmer...eventually your tent temps will go up....
 
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oill

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The duct muffler works well but you will still get noise directly from the fan unit.

You will need to wrap the fan in some sort of sound insulation. I did the same.

My tent and fan are smaller but there is no chance I could sleep in the same room as it.

You might get used to it though.
 
OregonMan

OregonMan

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Gquebed said:
Not much you can do about the noise.... maybe build a box around it and throw some insulation around the ducting.

A problem you might run into, depending on the size of your place, is that as the room fills with hot air it recirculates and goes in bck across the lights making it even warmer and warmer...eventually your tent temps will go up....
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I did this with a plastic storage box, wrapped my inline fan in plastic wrap and then used cans of spray foam insulation. Worked like a charm extremely quiet just turn the fan of for 15 to 20 minutes a day helps with the life of my can fan.
 
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ydizzle34

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It was already said but you are definitely going to have heat issues if the tent is in the same room. If its cool outside, I guess you could run ducting from a window to the tent to help keep temps down.
 
OregonMan

OregonMan

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If you run it straight from outside be sure you have a pre filter or you will get mites and gnats that fly/Get sucked in.
 
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ydizzle34

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Very true. As for noise, I sleep right next to my tent with the fan on full blast with the osc fans and sleep just fine. This is a pot forum, do some dabs or smoke an indica and sleep easy and forget that fan lol.
 
noysy

noysy

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Fan speed controller and a fan that is brushless and it will be quiter than a running PC.

Goodluck. Noise was my original issue, but with the right equipment you can run the setup almost noise-less.

:bigjoint:
 
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oxalylchloride

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ydizzle34 said:
It was already said but you are definitely going to have heat issues if the tent is in the same room. If its cool outside, I guess you could run ducting from a window to the tent to help keep temps down.
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So this is hydrazine the OP. I forgot my password and made a new account. I should have mentioned that i live in interior alaska where the average temperature is well below zero degrees F in the winter and 60 F in the summer. I figure i could cool my house off with outside air if needed.
 
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incognegro999

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oxalylchloride said:
So this is hydrazine the OP. I forgot my password and made a new account. I should have mentioned that i live in interior alaska where the average temperature is well below zero degrees F in the winter and 60 F in the summer. I figure i could cool my house off with outside air if needed.
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Yeah at those temps you shouldn't have much of a problem figuring out temperature, and worse case add more lights haha
 
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