Actually I really don't care if your interested or not. There have been over 6300 viewings of this thread. I think I can safely assume more than just the three of us are viewing what is written. I am writing to newbies and people with little knowledge of air conditioners and dehumidifiers who might wish to save money by using an air conditioner as either an air conditioner, a dehumidier or both at a lower cost than the grossly over priced single purpose dehumidifier.
Besides, the entire sets is in a tent. Tents define low cost unconventional (cheap) grows. What difference does it make if an $100 air conditioner is used instead of a $250 dehumidifier. I remind you, it is a tent grow, not a dedicated plant room soon to be pictured in a horticultural digest magazine.
It is your money, but don't be so vane to think everything I write is just for you or your buddy. You two are just little peas in one of the many pea pods of life, so put your vanity away. Get over your self. There is a big audience out there. There is nothing wrong in bringing up that an air conditioner will perform the same job for a lot less money, and they can be used for temperature control and dehumifificatiom when heat is an issue also. I will promise you this. If yu do not bring up possibly buying a grossly over priced dehumidifier Iwill not bring up that a more economical air conditioner will do the same thing at less cost and can also doubleas an air conditioner. WOW!
An over priced dehumidifier can not be used in that fashion. So get over your self and realise there are others reading this thread who may not think the air conditioner is such a bad idea. Isn't that "ghetto-rigging" term sorta the term a biggot would use. I would think in this day and edge that term would be considered out of favor.
Realise this: the humidity has to be reduced as the CO2 is increased. The only way to gain more growth through the use of CO2 is if you also provide conditions that will allow increased transpiration. That means CO2 will just be a waste if you can not keep the humidity down. I keep my humidity at 40% usually. I have repeatedly found that with humidity at 50% or higher during veg growth transpiration transpiration drops in huge amounts. If I allow humidity above 35 to 40% during budding transpiration also drops severely. Any time transpiration decreases the growth slows.
This is rbaha's grow journal, so to not turn it into a flame war, I'm gonna try to keep this as short and sweet as possible.
You've made your views very, very clear, writing about ten identical posts with regards to your love of window ACs.
This is not your thread, so wasting several posts on your views is not really your right - start your own thread with the title "Don't Ever Buy a Dehumidifier, Some Duct Tape And a Window AC is Better" if you want to carry on and on about it - this is rbaha's grow journal, not Fatman's view on dehumidifiers journal.
And as far as tent grows being cheap, I'm about $6K into mine, and I'd imagine that rbaha is pretty similarly into his, so relatively speaking to most grows on this site, they're not "cheap".
And I don't think it's "vane" [sic] to assume that as we're the only two talking about dehumidifiers and purchasing them, that your numerous posts referencing the advantages of a window AC over a dehumidifier would be directed at us.
And as far as who brought up the "grossly overpriced dehumidifier", it was rbaha, whose thread we happen to be in, so I kinda feel like he can do what he wants (as can you, within limits, which you're currently overstepping).
And no, "ghetto-rigging" is not a bigotted term; it refers to doing something that a person living in thee ghetto (a poor person) would have to do to make something work in a manner it was not designed for.
It's actually you who show your "bigoted-ness" when you assume that only minorities live in ghettos.
Long story short, you cut and paste shit from Wikipedia, you're crabby and grumpy and lonely, and you never post pics of your grow or anything that I've ever found to be worthwhile.
That being said, you're just a waste of space in my book.
Rbaha, sorry to have to do this in your thread, but I just had to respond.
P.S. - Fatman, I've said my piece, and hopefully you have as well; it'd be nice if both of us (I know I'll do my part) would keep any future posts in this thread strictly related to rbaha's grow.
