Someone guide me..

So I'm getting close to finally setting up my grow tent.. wanna do one run before I try a perpetual.. lol anyways I bought two cheap ass air cooled hoods.. I figured I gotta start somewhere. 24x24x10 is the size of the hood. I plan to run 3 600's in the tent, considering running 6 4 6 if it would help..anyways ducting is where I'm really stuck.. so if I had the three hoods in series.. in a 4x8 tent, how would I setup my ducting.. would 2 449 cfm vortex works? could one do? I wanna run a carbon filter as well for odor control.. can anyone help me here? everything outside? inside? suck or blow? insulated ducting?

many thanks in advance..

these all say non sealed room, does that apply to a grow tent..?

bankcee said:

these all say non sealed room, does that apply to a grow tent..?

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yes, you need c02 to do a sealed room

so there's no way to run a grow tent without co2?

bankcee said:

so there's no way to run a grow tent without co2?

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a tent is NOT sealed

chuck estevez said:

a tent is NOT sealed

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so would this work for me.. sorry for the dumb questions brotha.. outdoor was what I've been doing..



so the fan on the right is pulling fresh air through the sealed ac hoods (never coming into the room just cooling the hoods and leaving the room) as why I don't understand why that duct line has a filter at the end.. and the fan on the left corner I also don't understand why is placed as is. is it pulling air out or blowing it in? also wouldn't it make sense if that one in the left is pulling air out and going through the filter instead to mask odor?

main question being how does fresh air get into the room?

bankcee said:

main question being how does fresh air get into the room?

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not sure where you got that mess. go back and watch the first video i posted

chuck estevez said:

not sure where you got that mess. go back and watch the first video i posted

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brotha I get that but my air cooled hoods have the glass on them with air tight sealings.. so all that's gonna get cooled is the air tight hood. no outside air is ever gonna enter the room.. it's gonna run from outside to fan to duct to sealed light to outside.. and then that's where in the video the fan with the hepa filter comes in.. it's bring outside air in through the filter to catch any contaminants and into the grow room.. now how does that air get exhausted?

I might be lost but that's exactly why I posted this.. ergo the title "guide me"

cancel @chuck estevez lmfao I didn't even realize the exhaust filter was on the inside so it's pulling air from the room through the filter to mask odor and out the grow tent.. lol my bad brotha.. one more question of anyone can answer.. how do I know what size/kind filters I need? what are the best ones? my 2 fans are gonna be two vortex 449 cfm.

sorry actually a couple questions.. I've seen people set everything outside the tent to save space.. how do they do this? for smaller grow tent like maybe a 4x4 instead of the 4x8 I wanna run..

simple answer

1 u figure out the volume of air in the room
2 u need to exchange that air in there atleast 1 time every 5 mins (personally i like 1 min using HIDS)
3 once u know how much air u need to move u get the fan and match the carbon filters CFM (or as close as possible if have to go bigger rather then undersize)

justugh said:

simple answer

1 u figure out the volume of air in the room
2 u need to exchange that air in there atleast 1 time every 5 mins (personally i like 1 min using HIDS)
3 once u know how much air u need to move u get the fan and match the carbon filters CFM (or as close as possible if have to go bigger rather then undersize)

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that is all I need thanks brotha..

if you already have fan pulling 449 CFM you need a filter that can handle you fan without putting extra strain on them.. so a 449cfm filter on each if thats the case.