First Grow room, new 1000w & plants fell over.., Too hot! Any pointers?

MeJuana

MeJuana

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My plants are standing again not as pretty, I thought 3' was safe.. Ok at 3' I am > 90°F on my plants.. Installed fan blowing right on bulb, installed fan right in front of plants blowing away. At 4' my plants are at 72°F. No good this sucks how can I get them closer? My hood doesn't have a fan. I have an A/C unit to install tonight but that sucks, don't want to run A/C. Is it just light cooling? How close will I be able to get the light with a properly cooled hood? 400CFM hood or somethin?

By searching looks like the hood is the ticket. I can duct the hood to attic if I need to. And I have A/C. Just wanna hear what you guys think. This is a bedroom, the whole room avail with a window and 1000w HPS light.
 
cazador

cazador

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Seems like you got it figured out. A cooled hood should do the trick. Vent it out of the room and make sure you have the rooms incoming vent coming from the coolest place possible (within reason).
 
MeJuana

MeJuana

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Ok by your reply I got that yes I need to vent to the roof. Air conditioner now that I think about it just makes good sense, stick it on 68°F and vent the light. For tonight I will just use the A/C until I can get a properly vented hood and duct.
 
MeJuana

MeJuana

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I got a lot of help on another forum.

I am getting a Cool Tube w/Adapter cord, an 8" 765CFM fan, a Reducer to 6" and enough tube to vent it out TODAY. I am told by the shop owner if I do this I can drop it to inches.

After I recover I am going to get a temp/humid control system worked out. Why waste 1000 watts...
 
cazador

cazador

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Sounds good. An A/C on 68°F in the room seems a bit low. I'd vent the room through the light to the outside as you said above and get cool air from outside or the main area of the house. If that didn't keep temps down then, vent straight in-out the light and then start up the AC so your not pumping the A/C out too. Temps 77 a little higher if you want to add CO2 at that point.
 
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