Gwhiliker
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i appreciate it <3Your walk space is about the same as my grow space, it's a ill divided world lol.
It's a cracking set up :thumbs:
i appreciate it <3Your walk space is about the same as my grow space, it's a ill divided world lol.
It's a cracking set up :thumbs:
I am a little confused?
Where I live in an airy house, it would benefit me but I see what you are sayingThe plants generate humidity. If the humid air is warmed within the tent or room and released into the cool house. The moisture will condense. If the windows are much cooler, I think they'll fog from inside of the house. The outside in my area can get into sub zero territory.
How do you guys handle the humidity when recirculating the heat during winter months.
Suck in cold air blow out hot? From outside
Plus the window AC will start freezing up the evaporator coil when it gets down into the 50's outside. Can't blow much air through a block of ice lol.
The easiest solution is to draw cold air from outside to cool the grow. It often works out best if you run at night so it's still cool outside even if you have a warm ish day during the winter.
Portable AC? You could vent it through your room duct.
Do you need heat anywhere in the house? You could use box your ac and vent the heat to a cool part of the house. This assuming you're running sealed with co2, otherwise, yeah, cold air outdoors....
circulate the heat to the house instead of wasting it? Do you have a duct system you could dump it into? It shouldn't be an issue if you are carbon scrubbing or the grow isn't too big
If it is sealed, you could put the window a/c inside your house to transfer heat out of the room into the next room, but you will need to make a drain of some sort for it
How big is the grow room, how cold does it get, and how much heat do your lights put off.
I use a 6" inline fan to blow cool outside air into the grow room until about 79F, then it switches over (using an Inkbird temp controller) to my portable AC unit until lights out at about 3 PM. I live in a desert, cool nights but 80-90f through Sept., in Nov. or Dec. I have to put a heater in there for lights out for about 4-5 hours.
In the winter I have it changed around where the 6" fresh air fan comes on @ 78-80F. Heater programed to come on @ 65F max in dark. Plants love fresh air.
Let me know what you figure out because my grow space is in my basement on the opposite side of the house from the window so I been thinking up ideas as well. Best I have came up with so far for my setup basically. Besides a mini-split which is out of my price range. Also kinda over kill for 1 5 by 5 and 1 4 by 4 grow space.
with a dehumidifier; more free heat !The plants generate humidity. If the humid air is warmed within the tent or room and released into the cool house. The moisture will condense. If the windows are much cooler, I think they'll fog from inside of the house. The outside in my area can get into sub zero territory.
How do you guys handle the humidity when recirculating the heat during winter months.