Hey guys, so I have a pretty big problem when it comes to ventilating in my apartment. I am setting up a 3x3x6 grow room with a 400W light and a carbon filter. I live in an apartment on the second floor. My intention is to set up a grow room in my bedroom or closet, but need some help on where the best place to place it as well. ( I was thinking of placing it right next to the window but was also considering the closet in the picture and putting clothes elsewhere.) I was wondering how to stealthily ventilate my carbon filter and my light. I was thinking of making it look like an A/C portable unit but i need to filter two instead of one and think it would be kind of sketchy to be filtering out two separate things in one AC unit. Any advice? Should I even filter my 400W light? If not, then how do I keep the temperature down in my tent? On the pictures, on the second and third picture is the closet and on the top of it is sort of a small attic area.
Apartment ventilation
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2Hearts
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You cool your tent by regulating the room air, if your room is 20c and your running that through a closet/tent at a fast rate then your tent is going to be 20c.
I cant put a tent in a cold room and expect that to work as the plants will feel the cold air quicker than a light can heat the surroundings which are what heats the air.
You can cool a light, the bulb wont cool butvit cools the reflector, not really needed most just run open reflectors.
If its not too hot a open window is all thats needed, much hotter and you probably need to take the edge of but if your ac runs the room too cold its another set of problems.
I cant put a tent in a cold room and expect that to work as the plants will feel the cold air quicker than a light can heat the surroundings which are what heats the air.
You can cool a light, the bulb wont cool butvit cools the reflector, not really needed most just run open reflectors.
If its not too hot a open window is all thats needed, much hotter and you probably need to take the edge of but if your ac runs the room too cold its another set of problems.
I get ventilating the room, which I am wanting to do with a Exhaust system. I was just wondering whether to put the tent in the closet or outside the closet and should I run the ducting to my window or can i just use the whole room as ventilation? The room is about 175 square feet in entire size, it’s a decent size room. My grow tent will be a 3x3, would that be enough to ventilate the entire room? And if so how would I even start? The idea I’m trying to get here is to keep the temperature in my grow tent at a good manageable rate while keeping my light cooled. I would prefer to not use the window as it is kind of sketchy and non stealthy.
coreywebster
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OK so its a big enough room and small enough light to get away with venting into it as long as the room temp is not high.
The point of air cooled lights is to remove the heat from the tent, not to cool the light, you can set up
Filter>light>fan>duct (seal all edges of the light) or Filter>fan>light>duct
If you use the closet then you need to run enough duct to get the warm air far from the closet or it will just draw warm air back into it.
The point of air cooled lights is to remove the heat from the tent, not to cool the light, you can set up
Filter>light>fan>duct (seal all edges of the light) or Filter>fan>light>duct
If you use the closet then you need to run enough duct to get the warm air far from the closet or it will just draw warm air back into it.
I see. For the room being not too hot, I have a AC vent that vents directly into the room and I leave it around 74 degrees Fahrenheit. How much temp is the room going to go up by? And if it goes up by several degrees the what would be a way to vent it? I’ve heard that the little AC things that go in the window and blow hot air out but I’m not sure that would work considering I am attempting to be pretty quiet and I’m not sure if opening the window for the AC unit is even allowed at my apartments. What would be a way to cool down the room? In the end I do sleep in it haha
coreywebster
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Its not easy sleeping next to a grow, fans are loud and even ones that are quiet will seem loud in the middle of the night when your trying to sleep.
A single 400w light will hardly heat the whole room. A room of that size should be able to dissipate the heat reasonably.
The way to deal with the heat if it were too hot would be to set up your duct to the window so all of the heat goes out. But if you don't want to do that then you can try just venting to the room, see what happens.
A single 400w light will hardly heat the whole room. A room of that size should be able to dissipate the heat reasonably.
The way to deal with the heat if it were too hot would be to set up your duct to the window so all of the heat goes out. But if you don't want to do that then you can try just venting to the room, see what happens.
Gotcha. Thank you so much!
Gotcha! Thank you so much!
TintEastwood
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Hopefully no problems.
Doh. Years ago...I moved into a duplex after getting kicked out of an apt.
Doh. Years ago...I moved into a duplex after getting kicked out of an apt.