ventalation

jondamon said:

Another simple trick is to remove any bends in the ducting.

Also where are you exhausting your hot air to?
I hope its well away from the room. Otherwise this could be increasing your temps by recirculating already warm air.

What's your intake like? Passive/powered?

Passive? Try making another passive vent.

Powered? Bigger fan.

What's the ambient air temp from your intake?

Is it hot where you live? If your intake air temp is warm it will just get warmer inside.

Are your ballasts in your grow area?
Could you get them outside the grow area?

If non of the above rings true then its time to consider AC.


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jondamon said:

What you could do is this!!

Create a new intake for your lighting system. Have your first light hooked up to the new intake with the cooler air and your 8" fan at the end exhausting. This will create a sealed air cooled lighting setup. Meaning that No grow room air passes through the lighting rig. Then mount your 6" to your filter and exhaust the smell air through this fan and filter.

If you do this it should help to reduce your temp.



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jondamon said:

I mean you need to make an intake port from outside the grow into the area for the air cooled hoods to attach to. This gives you a cold air intake for your lighting rig. Keep your exhaust as it is and remove the carbon filter from the light rig.

Attach the ducting from where the filter attached to the new cold air intake port.

So you have your ducting going from your new intake port to your first air cooled hood, into the second and third and out of your exhaust using the 8"fan.

You said you had a 6" fan? Then connect this to the filter and mount it and create a second exhaust for the 6" fan to blow out of.

You then have the 8" only running your lights cooling.

The 6" with filter then becomes your exhaust.
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