Proguard air purifier or airoclean

Rurumo

Rurumo

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Hobbes has an Airos by sage. There are a couple of other folks here with other types, hopefully one will chime in with an answer for you. Renfro used an Airos too I think-you can probably find those discussions with a search. I believe Ron just got one for his commercial grow too. These things are awesome if you have a dedicated grow room with a lot of plants, where it's difficult to really give each plant the IPM attention it deserves. It's hard to perfectly spray under each leaf when you have a lot of plants!
 
Drop That Sound

Drop That Sound

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I looked into those once. Then I was looking into how often you need to replace the filters and UV bulbs. Then I was wondering how exactly they work. Its like the UV bulb activates something in the filter material itself that helps perform some kind of ionic bonding that kills the pathogens or something.

Then I thought to myself.. could you just buy the replacement filter/prefilter and bulb kits, and stuff that into your ventilation, or a homemade box, and save the cost for the actual unit? Can't be much more than a fan in there. Slap a NASA sticker on it and charge a grand, lol.

The reverse engineer in me thinks so. I wanna see in the box before I buy ;)
 
Drop That Sound

Drop That Sound

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I noticed that up here in the PNW, for over hundred miles I've seen lately, almost every single maple tree is covered in PM! Trees white as ghosts, like 80 percent of them! Not sure if it's the same PM strain that spreads to cannabis, but it really sketches me out. They say its nothing to worry about, and barely affects the trees..
 
Lenin1917

Lenin1917

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Rurumo said:
Hobbes has an Airos by sage. There are a couple of other folks here with other types, hopefully one will chime in with an answer for you. Renfro used an Airos too I think-you can probably find those discussions with a search. I believe Ron just got one for his commercial grow too. These things are awesome if you have a dedicated grow room with a lot of plants, where it's difficult to really give each plant the IPM attention it deserves. It's hard to perfectly spray under each leaf when you have a lot of plants!
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That one’s out of my budget, similar concept but my flower room is only a little over 100sqft (I’m only using 32 of it for now) cool product though just for bigger grows than I can manage
 
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figgie

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for the UV to bond pathogens it usually a UV-C+ozone (280nm + 185nm) based bulb. Fairly inexpensive by itself (on amazon) but the longevity of such a bulb is the big question. Of course as you well know, O3 is not too good for us to breath and I can imagine the plants would not like it one bit. The plus size is that O3 is probably the best odor neutralizer out there.
 
Charles U Farley

Charles U Farley

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I just don’t want this to happen again :cuss:
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For my basement tents, I'm right there with ya:

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As a personal grower, those prices are a bit out of my league, unfortunately. :( I'm trying massive amounts of airflow and a khco3 spray that works but I hate to use in late flowering. But when it's 80 degrees Fahrenheit and 80% relative humidity, even with a dehumidifier it is difficult to control this shit.
 

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DrDukePHD

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Drop That Sound said:
I looked into those once. Then I was looking into how often you need to replace the filters and UV bulbs. Then I was wondering how exactly they work. Its like the UV bulb activates something in the filter material itself that helps perform some kind of ionic bonding that kills the pathogens or something.

Then I thought to myself.. could you just buy the replacement filter/prefilter and bulb kits, and stuff that into your ventilation, or a homemade box, and save the cost for the actual unit? Can't be much more than a fan in there. Slap a NASA sticker on it and charge a grand, lol.

The reverse engineer in me thinks so. I wanna see in the box before I buy ;)
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I've got a $750 tower with filter/UV. I opened it up, its just CPU fans stacked up. An expensive HEPA filter ($125) & UV bulb basically thats it.
 
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groworm

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What was you rh%? Anecdotally, I had a problem about 2-3 weeks from finish. I dropped the humidity down to 50%, cut out the bad spots, and the problem didn't reoccur, so I was planning on crossing fingers and doing 50% all the way through, without any other remediation/filtration ..
 
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