Heating Your House With Your Lights.. How?

[Shamus]

So our gas bill is getting rediculous and since I'm starting up a grow in the new crib im curious if any one is doing this (Ik your out there) and if so, how would one heat the main level of the home if the grow is in the basement..

Help would be very much appreciated

The only thing I've thought of so far is feeding (how would I do that?) the ventilation tubing thru the vents and have it blowing out of a vent on the main floor..

Would this work? Have folks done it? Would it block my heating for the rest of the house?

 

[rubthe nub]

Daydreamed about this while smoking several times, lol

Smell would be my biggest issue doing something along those lines
Maybe the 'exhaust' of the can filter, but then you're pulling co2 out.
About then my mind starts to wonder off.........

 

[xX Kid Twist Xx]

we set up a house like this few years back it works great you barley need the heat at night. 6 lights 2 fans and one fan that spins either direction depning on time of year, we just turn it to push or pull. in the winter we take air from the attic run it through the lights and then into a 10 inch ducting goes to a basement with a fan pulling on the bottom and in the summer we spin the fan around and it pushes up and the cold air from the basement into the attic to cool the lights. the hoods are sealed so no smell to worry about from them, we have a can 100 with an open fan in the flower room and anothe can 60 in the veg room that exshaust into the attic after cooling its 3 400 watt lights.

 

[stonestacker]

I'm doing it now. I carbon filter all exhausts they are on thermostats with backdraft dampers into main plenum. I have to run dehumidifier in the room that gets this air. I was concerned about competing with my furnace but it seems to be working ok. The room that gets most of the air was always could befor it's definitely warmer now.
If you can hook into the cold air return it would be better.
If you are sealed and run co2 I personally wouldn't do it. Why take the chance.

Good luck.

 

[xX Kid Twist Xx]

in the summer you disconnect the Y so the cold air just gets sent to the attic and you can make your ducting go out the window or roof or whatever from the lights. we change that filer every 2 runs or so on the intake box

i cant get the picture to size right for soem reason you could always copy it and blow it up on your viewer

 

[Bulldog11]

I would be worried about moisture. Sounds like a good idea though.

 

[ShroomKing]

I live in a sealed condo. No open windows. No outside exhausting or fresh air intakes.
I run a 600w 12hrs a day and 500w of Ts 18 hrs a day In spare bedroom. I intake from master bedroom @225cfm and filter my exhaust into laundry room@800cfm. Keeping a negative pressure on the room so no smell leaks out. The heat is pushed into my laundry/kitchen then is dissapated throughout condo. I use condo AC in summer to keep temperature in condo below 80f. My Temps lights on are 80-84 Max. The heat is not that great of an impact on condo. And humidity is never an issue here in coastal socal, just low at times.
Hope this helps you.
Best of luck.
Peace

 

[DirtySanchez]

Doing it right now and I can say it works. If you're worried about smell get phresh inline filters. Cut and installed Y connector to existing ducts and voila. Have heat upstairs!

My question is what to do with the hot air in the summer lol.

 

[sixstring]

all i do is keep my furnace fan on 24/7 and it pulls air from the veg and distributes it throughout the rest of the house.so instead of having your thermostat set to auto,set it to fan on,done!! i heat my whole house with just my 1600 w veg room,all t5 lighting. but yeah my furnace only kicks on during lights out and my gas bill is usually around 30 bucks a month during winter ,mostly from our cooking and hot water use.as long as you have a cold air return close to the grow your golden :)

 

[LittleDabbie]

Question, If your using lights as a heat source , what are you going to use during the day? Or night if your lights run daytime*some people are weird like that*

 

[OST]

My partner has 2 4x8 tents in his basement with 2 air cooled xxxl 1000w hoods in each so 4k total. We have the intake for the lights in the basement and the exhaust we plumbed into his existing hvac duct for the house. His regular heat still comes on but not as much and sometimes not at all on the warmer days.

 

[xX Kid Twist Xx]

Question, If your using lights as a heat source , what are you going to use during the day? Or night if your lights run daytime*some people are weird like that*

the veg is on 24 hours so between the t5 and 3 400 watt lights it usually helps enough in the daytime. but soemtimes you may have to turn the heat on if your home and we have a small heater that stays in the flower room that keeps it warm enough. the ehat being pumped into the basement rises and keeps the house warm enough when lights on.

 

[OST]

Question, If your using lights as a heat source , what are you going to use during the day? Or night if your lights run daytime*some people are weird like that*

Regular heating system of choice, supplement with your lights and use your forced air/baseboard/ect as primary.... So if your normal 4k watts or so of lights keep your house warm at say 32* outside your normal regular heat will never kick on assuming your thermostat is set under the temp your house is at, if interior drops below your setpoint then your primary heat will kick on. Having these lights vented inside during winter time will supplement your heating system very well and cut heating costs drastically (Just think about how much your typical 1000w space heater will heat). Take full advantage of this heat guys, you are paying for it after all!