Minitiger
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Basically, I can't keep my tent cool enough, which is frustrating since I got an Apache AT600 thinking that heat would be the last thing I'd have to worry about. But I'm assuming anybody who uses LED's may have run into the same issue, since they aren't hooded and easily, uh, "ventable."
Using a Greenqube 150x150x220 (only bought it since it's one of the few tents that can support the 65 pound light I'm trying to use). I gotta say, the tent itself is fucking FULL of light leaks, pretty disappointing since it cost $550 to get one shipped from England to SoCal. But whatever. I can deal with light leaks. What I can't deal with is the heat. I have a Vortex 6" inline fan on the outside of the tent, venting out an open window. 6" carbon filter on the inside of the tent with about two feet of ducting between the filter and the Vortex. At first I was using a dust shroom on the outside of the tent for passive intake, attached to some ducting that vented into the bottom corner, opposite the outtake filter/fan combo. Temps were still too high inside the tent (ambient temps outside the tent were between 75 and 78 degrees), but the temps were still too high so I got another 6" fan and attached it to the intake. The intake fan is rated at 425 Cfm, the outtake is rated at 475 Cfm, so I'm still getting negative pressure or whatever. The tent's still being sucked inward is what I'm saying. In addition to all that, I have an oscillating fan at ground level inside the tent and a clip-on fan above the light pointed directly at the outtake fan. Thirty minutes before the light comes on, temps are between 74 and 77 degrees. An hour after the light comes on, temps are around ninety-fucking-degrees.
Any idea what I can do? Anybody? It's finally cooling off enough here in SoCal that I could probably just open a window around midnight and turn off the AC, but that would still mean running my ghetto central AC from like 6pm to midnight every day. My power bill is already $250 a month and that's with running the AC for like three hours at the most every day (sometimes I don't turn it on at all) and not running the lights, fans and everything else. I can only imagine what my power bill will be once all that starts happening.
It's getting to the point where switching to an HID with a hood almost makes more sense, but I really don't wanna do that, for a variety of reasons, the biggest being that I dropped 2500 fucking dollars on the Apache.
Basically, this is just a long-winded way of me asking LED users how they deal with the heat generated by their lights.
Thanks.
Love,
Minitiger
Using a Greenqube 150x150x220 (only bought it since it's one of the few tents that can support the 65 pound light I'm trying to use). I gotta say, the tent itself is fucking FULL of light leaks, pretty disappointing since it cost $550 to get one shipped from England to SoCal. But whatever. I can deal with light leaks. What I can't deal with is the heat. I have a Vortex 6" inline fan on the outside of the tent, venting out an open window. 6" carbon filter on the inside of the tent with about two feet of ducting between the filter and the Vortex. At first I was using a dust shroom on the outside of the tent for passive intake, attached to some ducting that vented into the bottom corner, opposite the outtake filter/fan combo. Temps were still too high inside the tent (ambient temps outside the tent were between 75 and 78 degrees), but the temps were still too high so I got another 6" fan and attached it to the intake. The intake fan is rated at 425 Cfm, the outtake is rated at 475 Cfm, so I'm still getting negative pressure or whatever. The tent's still being sucked inward is what I'm saying. In addition to all that, I have an oscillating fan at ground level inside the tent and a clip-on fan above the light pointed directly at the outtake fan. Thirty minutes before the light comes on, temps are between 74 and 77 degrees. An hour after the light comes on, temps are around ninety-fucking-degrees.
Any idea what I can do? Anybody? It's finally cooling off enough here in SoCal that I could probably just open a window around midnight and turn off the AC, but that would still mean running my ghetto central AC from like 6pm to midnight every day. My power bill is already $250 a month and that's with running the AC for like three hours at the most every day (sometimes I don't turn it on at all) and not running the lights, fans and everything else. I can only imagine what my power bill will be once all that starts happening.
It's getting to the point where switching to an HID with a hood almost makes more sense, but I really don't wanna do that, for a variety of reasons, the biggest being that I dropped 2500 fucking dollars on the Apache.
Basically, this is just a long-winded way of me asking LED users how they deal with the heat generated by their lights.
Thanks.
Love,
Minitiger