DrGribble
Well-Known Member
I have two 6" ActiveAir fans that I use, one is resting directly on top of my carbon filter and then (not ideally) is hooked to about 10 feet or so of ducting which spits air outside of my "grow room" I also have a Window A/C unit in here which has a box built on to the outside portion of it and has a 6" Duct piece attached to a short run of 6" Ducting then to another 6" ActiveAir fan and the other side is directed out a basement window with maybe 5 feet of ducting.
I am wondering if one of these 400CFM fans would be able to be mounted almost directly onto that basement window (so I'm doing no more pushing, just pulling) and then I could use a Wye connector which I already have to basically attach directly to the fan and join both of those runs of ducting I mentioned before to each end of the Wye piece. I am wondering if that 10-15 foot run of ducting going all the way through my room to the other side then connected to my filter is going to get extremely weaker amounts of flow than the ~5 foot run from the other end of the Wye going to my A/C unit. Seems like the shortest run would take over and that's the one that would need less flow.
Just wondering if the only solution to making this work would be placing my carbon filter on the opposite side of the room (closer to the A/C and basement window I'm exhausting too) so both runs of ducting are shorter... that's more of a hassle though and I wanted to keep the carbon filter on the opposite side of the A/C so I'm not just pulling cold air immediately out of the room.
I want to use the other fan for something else and don't want to have tons of them down there making noise if I can avoid it, but unsure if that one fan will handle both of these tasks without issue. My area is only about 8x8x7 so my fan is plenty big enough for my room, using one specifically to remove hot air from behind my A/C seems like such a monumental waste of a decent fan though, It's probably 5x the size it needs to be to accomplish what it needs to do.
I am wondering if one of these 400CFM fans would be able to be mounted almost directly onto that basement window (so I'm doing no more pushing, just pulling) and then I could use a Wye connector which I already have to basically attach directly to the fan and join both of those runs of ducting I mentioned before to each end of the Wye piece. I am wondering if that 10-15 foot run of ducting going all the way through my room to the other side then connected to my filter is going to get extremely weaker amounts of flow than the ~5 foot run from the other end of the Wye going to my A/C unit. Seems like the shortest run would take over and that's the one that would need less flow.
Just wondering if the only solution to making this work would be placing my carbon filter on the opposite side of the room (closer to the A/C and basement window I'm exhausting too) so both runs of ducting are shorter... that's more of a hassle though and I wanted to keep the carbon filter on the opposite side of the A/C so I'm not just pulling cold air immediately out of the room.
I want to use the other fan for something else and don't want to have tons of them down there making noise if I can avoid it, but unsure if that one fan will handle both of these tasks without issue. My area is only about 8x8x7 so my fan is plenty big enough for my room, using one specifically to remove hot air from behind my A/C seems like such a monumental waste of a decent fan though, It's probably 5x the size it needs to be to accomplish what it needs to do.