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Time machine, to go back and start this long before I did.
Time machine, to go back and start this long before I did.
cannabeans i have to respectfully disagree with you. i think air cooled runs way better and cheaper in the long run. taking a room down 10 degrees with fans is much cheaper then using ac. also you loose more lumens being 12" + further away from the plants due to heat then i do due to glass. cost is compensated in the long run and a majority is compensated instantly thanks to less ac btu requirements. a million ways to skin a cat brother i'm sure what your doing is awesome for you but for me i love my air cooled hoods and just had to defend them a little lol.i dont like the air cooled hood because...
they are expensive.
they are heavy.
because they are heavy they become heat sinks.
they are bulky.
because they are bulky, they are hard to store away when not in use.
the glass in the hood take away PRECIOUS lumens.
pain in the ass to hook up properly
too much shit overhead, hard to adjust height
added fans means extra noise and electricity and more costs
having to dispense all the hot air is a security issue
they cause "hotspots"
pain in the ass to switch bulbs
hard to clean or sanatize( too many places bugs can hide)
the boxes these come in are huge and by no means discrete( security issue)
these are a few of the problems i have encountered with air cooled hoods. when i was in full production. i was running 28 hoods in five different rooms. i could have saved a ton af time and money by not using air cooled hoods. when you factor all the time, and trips to the hardware store, ( i live over an hour from the nearest hardware store or grow store) it was a total waste.
im sure they are people that will disagree with me..... but these are the factors why i will never run air cooled hood again!
I should have educated myself a little more before I purchased my setup. I bought gallon bottles of notes for a personal 4x4 setup. Needless to say, it will take me decades to go through them.
Do organic bottled nutes go bad? (Pura Vida, Hygrozyme, some GO stuff)
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i have to agree with Cannabeans. I caused more headaches and wasted more time on money on air cool hoods. Could been up and running a long time ago had I spent the money on a large AC unit and saved a ton of money too.
im running 3k through air cooled hoods i use thermal insulated ducting between cool tubes and i have soime monster inline fans that run the system i havent had any problems, on my next build im thinking of running cool air from an ac unit through tubes any1 tried this?
That's an interesting and good point about pulling through the hoods instead of pushing the air through, can I ask what the technical reason behind this is? I presume there is less friction when pulling through the hoods :)
Go big on a dehumidifier if you are running a sealed room. No sense in getting into full flower only to find out that your night time RH shoots to 80%. I was using 2 portable units that were barely getting the job done together. Next round I will have a Santa Fe industrial dehuey to make sure that there can be no humidity problems that could ruin a harvest!
-TF
Vinyl offgasses for quite a while, maybe years. Could use sealer/epoxy-paint for less $ than full epoxy floor.has anyone epoxy'd their concrete floors?
treebark1950 has a potentially great midpoint in terms of cost/benefit... vinyl sheet flooring.... not a bad idea, waaaaaaaaay cheaper than epoxy, but how does it handle spilled peroxide, caustic elements. Does it breath, or off gas into the rooms air?
You can when you are starting out. After a while you will realize that you need a bigger room with more lights just so you can include the climate control equipment to really do it right.
Then your veg room is your old flowering room.
Then you need a control room for your res and supplies.
Then you need a climate-controlled trimming, drying, curing, and storage room.
The better you get at this, the larger you have to scale up to justify the expenses of the equipment you have to have to do shit right.
You wait, vuitton.
It is a sickness.
Vinyl offgasses for quite a while, maybe years. Could use sealer/epoxy-paint for less $ than full epoxy floor.