backup to carbon filters?

hey guys. I was looking into getting a medical license and starting my own grow and club. My question is what happens if a carbon filter fails? Has anyone built anything as a safety catch? Like put the filter in a wood box where the sides have those panel carbon filters?

Also if I did multiple tents, what’s the rating. Like will one 20”x6” ipower filter be good enough for two 4x4 tents? Or one 8x8?

Never had a carbon filter fail before, I would imaging that if one did the odor would permeate to other areas in the facility.However a carbon filter is on the most basic level a activated charcoal filter for air, so just ensure you have an inline fan drawing air from the tent through the carbon filter.Then all should be good.If you have multiple tents one should be find (if you are meaning two tents) however others feel that this does not do the trick so they use two just to be safe.

Hope this Helps happy growing.

Thanks. Looking forward to getting licensed. Might have to start as a club then get a license as the license is very expensive right now.

The problem with it spreading the stank is if I’m in a shared building with other tenants and I don’t think they would appreciate the odor no matter it’s legal. Don’t want to make waves.

How long would a carbon filter last? I’m expecting 6 months out of the cheaper ipower ones

Should last at minimal a year. You'll know when it loses its effectiveness when you start to pick up on the smell. The only way itll fail is if the fan you're using dies on you. Which would stop pulling air. A good year would be a good estimated lifespan, but of course it depends on how much scrubbing it's actively doing.

Yeah but does it slowly fail or does it go from clean to skunk orgy?

Aviatorshades said:

Yeah but does it slowly fail or does it go from clean to skunk orgy?

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Gradually. Like anything, it wears out.

I truly appreciate your help. I was thinking two 315w cmh per 4x4x7. So low on heat and can pack on more tents in a 3000sqft for starting out. Still a noob but happy things became legal and are goin g in right direction. Always loved how beautiful they are and want to have fun breeding fun mixes.

Aviatorshades said:

I truly appreciate your help. I was thinking two 315w cmh per 4x4x7. So low on heat and can pack on more tents in a 3000sqft for starting out. Still a noob but happy things became legal and are goin g in right direction. Always loved how beautiful they are and want to have fun breeding fun mixes.

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That's a solid lighting idea. Great coverage in a 4x4.

One more thing to mention about your filter/fan combo, make sure the filter you choose is rated within the same capable range cfm as your fan. This will ensure you get the most from your filter and you don't overwork your fan.

I was going to run a Vivosun 6” 440cfm. Probably keep that on high and run through a ipower 6” filter. I think they are 20”. From reading on here that should draw plenty of healthy neg pressure and make the passive intakes work to my advantage

Also I’m not sure why no one is tilting their horizontal cmh ballasts so that it makes an X of light into canopy. Would make awesome penetration and bounce off sides of tent to get even lower. Just an idea I had. I believe it will work given one 315w ballast is a 3x3 coverage

Aviatorshades said:

Thanks. Looking forward to getting licensed. Might have to start as a club then get a license as the license is very expensive right now.

The problem with it spreading the stank is if I’m in a shared building with other tenants and I don’t think they would appreciate the odor no matter it’s legal. Don’t want to make waves.

How long would a carbon filter last? I’m expecting 6 months out of the cheaper ipower ones

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Guaranteed at least one tenant will make it a problem. Every legal state requires odor control of licensed operations. Every borough council meeting where a cannabis business in Fairbanks is requesting licensure to do business within the borough two groups show up. Red shirts and green shirts. The red protest any cannabis operation in general but complain most about odors from existing ops.

"Why it smells like someone's done run over a goldurned skunk! Ruint my granddaughter's birthday party it did. I say "NO" to anymore . I'd rather smell a hog farm".

Aviatorshades said:

hey guys. I was looking into getting a medical license and starting my own grow and club. My question is what happens if a carbon filter fails? Has anyone built anything as a safety catch? Like put the filter in a wood box where the sides have those panel carbon filters?

Also if I did multiple tents, what’s the rating. Like will one 20”x6” ipower filter be good enough for two 4x4 tents? Or one 8x8?

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Filters and fans are cheap enough. Buy an extra of each.

I even keep an inverter and a couple deep cycle batteries to run .ine in case of power outage. Had it happen once and within an hour it reeked outside the house.