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thanks deacon thats not a bad unit at all. is it pretty loud though?? Also can you set the desired RH that you want??thanks.
thanks ttystikk, you are correct in that i have too much air turnover. i have too many plants and not enough AC so im trying to compensate for the high temps. unfortunately i dont have hoods anymore i run all vertical lighting. 4600w vertical in my main 15' x 15' room and 1800w vertical in my secondary 10' x 10' flower room. not much i can do till i can upgrade my current 14k portable AC unit to a 24k mini split.
The best thing to humidify a growroom with is plants! I hate to sound contrary, but if you're trying to cover for an overactive AC or trying to replace humidity because you're pushing cooling air through the room too fast, those are the problems to address. Low humidity is best thought of as a symptom of inefficient air managment.
Slowing down air turnover will significantly increase humidity, the trick is to balance this against adequate cooling. Increasing airspeed through an AC coil will also reduce its ability to condense water out of the air, by warming the coil above dewpoint.
In general, finding strategies to get the heat out of your growroom without changing out the air in it is the best path to higher humidity values. Here's two tips to get you started; first, seal and vent your hoods. Pull air from outside the growroom and through them by mounting the fan downstream of the hoods, as close as possible to where the air exits the room. Second, use swamp coolers, as they will still work even in a sealed room and are better designed to use water's natural cooling ability to lower temperature. Win-win, right?
Unless of course you live in San Fransisco. :p
How do you know your room is sealed well enough? When you need a DE-humidifier. In the desert, lol.
CAP what kind of system are you running with those tan totes?
Sorry bro but in my situation, I have a sealed room. You run air cooled lights. I run a 5 ton AC with separate intake and exhaust. That thing when it is on sucks all the moisture out of the air. AC's are glorified dehueys.
9, 18" tall plants are no match for 9 1k's and the 5 ton. After 2-3 weeks they are, but I need the humidifier to ease the transition.
Maybe if I had to do it again I would do aircooled, but at this point I am locked in to what I have (like a lot of other people I am sure).
CAP what kind of system are you running with those tan totes?
Damn Cap....lol...
WTF is all that?
It looks like it might take flight....
Thats cool shit homie. I would kill those girls faster than Ted Bundy at college night. Props
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