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Yes a 1 hose unit will draw air from inside the tent over both hot and cold side and expel the hot air creating negative pressure. So the tent will also be sucking in warm air from the garage.So...yo only have a 800 cu/ft room, 28000 btu of cooling, but only a 11 degree drop. All hoses are plumbed outside, with 2 hoses blowing hot air and one sucking air, with only the AC units themselves inside the room blowing cold air. I can't think of any obvious problems. If you turned off the LG unit (the one with 1 hose), does it affect the temp in the room? Since it pulls some air out of the room to cool the AC unit since it only has an exhaust hose, it could be pulling cool air with it. I would try using just the Ideal system for a few minutes and see if you notice any difference. I guess you could try it the other way as well, just to eliminate variables. This is a head scratcher.
I'm pretty sure I said they are both dual hose ACs.Probably the best method since not running a sealed room would be to cool the garage and run and intake on the tent. Either a dual hose or window AC would be better at keeping the cold air in.
Ah ok my mistake. So how are you getting fresh air into the tent?I'm pretty sure I said they are both dual hose ACs.
He is running both a dual hose and a single hose system. I am thinking that the single hose system might be sucking out some of the cool air, hence my request for shutting off the system with just 1 hose. I looked up the LG unit, and only saw one exhaust hose, but maybe I looked at the wrong unit.Probably the best method since not running a sealed room would be to cool the garage and run and intake on the tent. Either a dual hose or window AC would be better at keeping the cold air in.
I just have a cheap portable evaporator AC unit but this is exactly how I run mine. I have a 6” duct that is down by the pots to hopefully help keeping the roots cooler than the ambient temp of my tent. I’ll find out in the next week or 2 how it works lolI think I see the problem. The AC unit is in the tent, blowing the heat that it extracted back into the tent via the hot air coming out the back of the unit. The unit should sit outside of the tent with just the air hoses entering the tent... keeping the cool air inside and the hotter air outside. The AC units might not work as well in the garage, so keeping them cool should help the tent stay cool.
Of course, if there isn't any warn air coming out the back of the unit, then I'm on the wrong track. I ran into a similar problem once when using a similar unit and the AC was in the room being cooled, which it didn't do so well. The AC was working, but it was putting the hot air back into the room thru the AC's cooling system
Cooling the tent, we have the AC air going outside the garage.
It tends to be hotter inside of the garage than outside of the garage I doubt the door insulation is the cause.
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