Carbon Filters filtering out co2?
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Siddhartha
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FLoJo
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damn thats crazy.. good to know not to run a carbon filter continuously in a room being treated with co2.. i guess you could run one and saturate it so that it would not be able to absorb any more co2 but who knows how much co2 that would actually take LOL
good find siddharta +rep
anyone else have ideas
good find siddharta +rep
anyone else have ideas
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Siddhartha
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Thanks for the reps!
If you introduce CO2 in the grow box you should be fine as long as it's relatively sealed. if you're going to use it, you should really use cooled lighting. Make it yourself if you don't want to spend the money. A diy cool tube reflector, duct fan and cheap CO2 method could be done for under $75. You'd make that back in yield times two on the first grow, depending on your setup. If you don't think a diy CO2 method is worth anything, read this;
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/CO2/yeast-disaster.html
People with aquariums also use it for keeping their plants green underwater. This guy did the yeast/sugar method in a glass bottle and had them sealed up. The CO2 generated had so much pressure that the bottle exploded. The link is full of stories about people who ran into a problem controlling the pressure. They have to be cautious about the speed they inject it because of pH and their fish, but with our plants, we can just let it go.
Use the yeast/sugar method, minimize venting from your grow area by using cool tubes and you'll be loving it. You might have to rethink your "stink" scrubber and put your activated carbon outside your grow area. If you're grow area isn't segregated, that's the first thing you have to do.
If you introduce CO2 in the grow box you should be fine as long as it's relatively sealed. if you're going to use it, you should really use cooled lighting. Make it yourself if you don't want to spend the money. A diy cool tube reflector, duct fan and cheap CO2 method could be done for under $75. You'd make that back in yield times two on the first grow, depending on your setup. If you don't think a diy CO2 method is worth anything, read this;
http://www.thekrib.com/Plants/CO2/yeast-disaster.html
People with aquariums also use it for keeping their plants green underwater. This guy did the yeast/sugar method in a glass bottle and had them sealed up. The CO2 generated had so much pressure that the bottle exploded. The link is full of stories about people who ran into a problem controlling the pressure. They have to be cautious about the speed they inject it because of pH and their fish, but with our plants, we can just let it go.
Use the yeast/sugar method, minimize venting from your grow area by using cool tubes and you'll be loving it. You might have to rethink your "stink" scrubber and put your activated carbon outside your grow area. If you're grow area isn't segregated, that's the first thing you have to do.
FLoJo
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thats not true at all
but yea sid, thats a good find, i guess ill have to reinvent the wheel haha
spiked1
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I have my smaller in and out fans running 24/7
my larger ones only while lights are on.
Plants need fresh air 24/7 so your comment makes no sense.
FLoJo
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i was doing some research, and it seems that while it does absorb some co2, the carbon gets saturated fairly quickly, even scrubbing normal ambient air.. so probably an hour of running a decent sized scrubber, it will be saturated with co2 and not absorb anymore.. i was talking today to the manager of a large hydro place, and he said that he confirmed the same thing and has graphs of all the data, which was way over my head but it still made sense..
just thought id pass it on
just thought id pass it on
HarvestFest2010
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