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Truthfully, not a lot to go on about - it is what it is, a tankless hot water heater.
I bought an electric solenoid valve off of eBay for $30 that will control it - hook up the garden hose in my garage to my solenoid (hose will always be on, so the line will be constantly pressurized) and then run tubing from the solenoid to the unit. Run waste hose from the unit to outside.
My solenoid (pictured) will be hooked up to my Sentinel CHHC-1 and be controlled by its CO2 sensor.
The unit is activated by flowing water, so as soon as the solenoid receives power from the Sentinel and opens, water starts flowing through it, it starts heating the water and releasing CO2 as it burns natural gas.
The hot water then takes 86% of the heat produced from burning the natural gas and flows outside, drastically lessening the work my AC has to do.
Of course, this is all in theory as I've yet to hook the unit up - however, lotsa people use Hydrogens and they seem to have fixed the issues that people initially had with them.
I'll have lotsa details about the hookup when I do it in my construction journal sometime this week or early next week AT THE LATEST.
Clock is ticking.
No worries about thread jacking, I love all the input and reading peoples different situations.
I'm still on the fence with wings or air cooled hoods. I live in Western Washington, so our temps are pretty mild. I would like to think that i could keep the temps below 85 in the peak of the summer without air-cooled hoods but even right now it can be difficult. If i added an air conditioner i think it would be doable though. So many things to consider. I got my new room halfway built last weekend. So pretty much i got the framework up. I still haven't popped holes in the ceiling yet because i'm still trying to decide which way to go with hoods.
Any insight from other PNW growers would be awesome. How easy is it to keep a room running 4 600W HPS's under 85 degrees without an AC in this climate?
I was looking at the Magnum XXL hoods and they look like a good way to go. I just hate having to run all the duct work if I'm going to have to use an AC anyways later on.
420King, if i may ask; what is your climate like? Your set-up seems very similar to mine right now just with another light. It seems that we both can get our lights to with-in about 8"s from the canopy but you have two lights running. I'm interested to know if you have an intake and exhaust running thru the room or just fans blowing the air around.
Back to designing.
no worries about thread jacking, i love all the input and reading peoples different situations.
I'm still on the fence with wings or air cooled hoods. I live in western washington, so our temps are pretty mild. I would like to think that i could keep the temps below 85 in the peak of the summer without air-cooled hoods but even right now it can be difficult. If i added an air conditioner i think it would be doable though. So many things to consider. I got my new room halfway built last weekend. So pretty much i got the framework up. I still haven't popped holes in the ceiling yet because i'm still trying to decide which way to go with hoods.
Any insight from other pnw growers would be awesome. How easy is it to keep a room running 4 600w hps's under 85 degrees without an ac in this climate?
I was looking at the magnum xxl hoods and they look like a good way to go. I just hate having to run all the duct work if i'm going to have to use an ac anyways later on.
420king, if i may ask; what is your climate like? Your set-up seems very similar to mine right now just with another light. It seems that we both can get our lights to with-in about 8"s from the canopy but you have two lights running. I'm interested to know if you have an intake and exhaust running thru the room or just fans blowing the air around.
Back to designing.
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