Aircooling 2000w in raptors with Fantech FDK10XL

masshole61

Active Member
Building a 8x12 sealed grow room with 2 raptor reflectors cooled with a fan tech fdk 10xl ( 1266 cfm). Planning on running co2, ballasts outside the room with two fans and a Dewey in the room. Will be growing 9 plants under each hood, soil in 7gallon pots. This is a basement grow, where the temps never reach 70 even in summer.
Given that ideal temps for co2 are 83with lights on, does anyone think that the oversized fan tech Duct fan will cool my lights enough by itself so that I won't have to buy a mini split? For the cost of the mini split I could outfit another room just like this. Also if this works would be cheaper on the electric bill as well.
Anyone try this? Thanks farm...what was once a hobby is now an obsession...
 

budleydoright

Well-Known Member
i kind of doubt that you can maintain the desired temps once you have your dehuey and lights running in there. You really just have to try it. Plus running a dehuey during your lights on is just like running an AC. An AC will dehumidify as well as cool. Running sealed with no AC would mean your dehuey will run 100% making it hot enough for the AC. Kind of a catch 22. Environment is everything, I would ditch the fan open the hoods up and get a minisplit and dehuey. It is so much more simple to maintain and manage. Set your temp and humidit and you environment is dialed in. If you get an inverter minisplit it will run at the speed required to keep your room at the desired temp while keeping your RH perfect. There's 80% of your sealed room, ad your co2, dehuey, fans and scrubber and your set. Compared to my last setup, this kit is a breeze freeing me up to concentrate on the ladies instead of chasing my tail trying to dial the environment.

My old setup water cooled the lights, when it was winter, the lights didnt generate any heat so the dehuey would run all the time, then the AC would come on the cool the dehuey so I found myself running a 8k AC a 6k chiller and a dehuey which is about the same as the chiller to deal with 3 600s. This caused radical temp and humidity swings. Again open hoods and a inverter dehuey take care of this for you. I now just run an 18k window AC and 4 1ks open. So in my case the larger AC is more effecient.
 
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