Carbon filter not working?

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midgaar

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BCtrippin said:
If the fan is hooked up strait to the filter, pulling air through. The fan will then be pulling odor from the outside, so its clean air filling up the inside of the filter, then its clean air going through your ducting and cooltube, that will eliminate any odor leaks.

If you push through the filter, your filling up all your ducting and your cooltube with odor and even your fan is being filled with pressurized stank air, which can lead to more leaks.

I always prefer to pull, that way all the exhaust air running through my ducting is pressurized and clean so it cant be contaminated on its way out.
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:confused: Why would I want to pull air from the outside? The smelly air is inside the tent. You must mean from outside the filter, that is more or less the way I had it setup. Except I was also pulling the air through the cooltube. I think your suggesting to pull throught the filter but push through the cooltube and out, right?

Right now I'm pushing through the filter, but it's the very last step. If the smelly air leaks anywhere it will be back into the tent so it doesn't really matter. Unless it leaks where the vent connects to the filter, but it's not.

Your suggestion does make a lot of sense and I would have set it up that way a couple hours ago when I changed it, but I think the way I have it now will work just fine. If it doesn't I'll be sure to try your suggestion next.
 
BCtrippin

BCtrippin

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By outside air i meant outside the filter, the filter would be inside the tent.

What Im saying is if you have the filter directly attached to the fan, and air is being pulled through the filter, then all the air inside the filter, fan, is clean and all the air after the fan is Possitive pressure clean air. If you move the fan to the end of the system and add ducting and cooltubes between the fan and filter you are creating Negative pressure, so any small leaks along the line will take in odor.

Filter > Fan >ducting > cooltube > ducting
*After the fan and filter connection there are no possibilities of odor leaks into the exhaust system


Filter > ducting > cooltube > ducting > fan
*Odor can leak into the exhaust system Anywhere after the filter and up to the fan.

Hope this helps
 
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midgaar

Active Member
BCtrippin said:
By outside air i meant outside the filter, the filter would be inside the tent.

What Im saying is if you have the filter directly attached to the fan, and air is being pulled through the filter, then all the air inside the filter, fan, is clean and all the air after the fan is Possitive pressure clean air. If you move the fan to the end of the system and add ducting and cooltubes between the fan and filter you are creating Negative pressure, so any small leaks along the line will take in odor.

Filter > Fan >ducting > cooltube > ducting
*After the fan and filter connection there are no possibilities of odor leaks into the exhaust system

Filter > ducting > cooltube > ducting > fan
*Odor can leak into the exhaust system Anywhere after the filter and up to the fan.

Hope this helps
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Got ya. Yeah, I'll give that a shot next time I'm in the mood to mess with it. I have to take the whole thing down soon so when I put it back together I'll try that.
 
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