JohnCee
Well-Known Member
I am half tempted to make my own "swamp cooler" system out of a large cooler, using an ice maker or two from a freezer to keep up the supply of ice needed. I'll be adding a drain line to stop the water from building up in excess, which is a major bonus on my end for not having to dump any water out. The setup will look something similar to this, but hopefully I'll have a larger cooler and a lot more ice.
I have a 4'x4'x6' flowering room in my basement, with an enclosed 315w cmh fixture, which has duct work ran for the room and just for the light. The air used for cooling the cmh fixture is from my basement, which happens to be the same air that is supplied to my flowering room, and it ranges from 72-76F in the basement throughout the summer (without the cmh on). I currently have a negative pressure in the room, using a cheap booster fan for moving air into the flowering room from the basement, and the high pressured fan sucking the air through my carbon scrub filter and back into the basement.
I know that once I turn on the cmh fixture the basement will begin to warm up due to exhausting my warm air back into the basement, because I do not have a viable way to vent out of the basement yet. (Question) Should I have the homemade a/c unit be hooked up to the air intake for the cmh lighting fixture, hoping to eliminate the heat before it begins, and shooting it back into the basement? (Question) Going that route, should I be worried about any kind of moisture potentially getting back to my bulb?
(Question) However, going in the complete opposite route, should I hook the a/c unit to my flowering room air intake? My gut is wanting to tell me that cooling the room would be the best route, however when reviewing scenarios in my head, I thought of the possibility of the air getting sucked out too quickly due to the negative pressure. I don't think that I have to worry about that though, since basically all of the air that is coming into the flowering room is from the a/c unit, right?
I have a 4'x4'x6' flowering room in my basement, with an enclosed 315w cmh fixture, which has duct work ran for the room and just for the light. The air used for cooling the cmh fixture is from my basement, which happens to be the same air that is supplied to my flowering room, and it ranges from 72-76F in the basement throughout the summer (without the cmh on). I currently have a negative pressure in the room, using a cheap booster fan for moving air into the flowering room from the basement, and the high pressured fan sucking the air through my carbon scrub filter and back into the basement.
I know that once I turn on the cmh fixture the basement will begin to warm up due to exhausting my warm air back into the basement, because I do not have a viable way to vent out of the basement yet. (Question) Should I have the homemade a/c unit be hooked up to the air intake for the cmh lighting fixture, hoping to eliminate the heat before it begins, and shooting it back into the basement? (Question) Going that route, should I be worried about any kind of moisture potentially getting back to my bulb?
(Question) However, going in the complete opposite route, should I hook the a/c unit to my flowering room air intake? My gut is wanting to tell me that cooling the room would be the best route, however when reviewing scenarios in my head, I thought of the possibility of the air getting sucked out too quickly due to the negative pressure. I don't think that I have to worry about that though, since basically all of the air that is coming into the flowering room is from the a/c unit, right?
