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To begin let me state that I have never been accused of being the sharpest tack in the box. Having said that bear with me as I try to frame my questions in a manner that won't make you think that I'm a complete imbecile. I am trying to figure out what I need to do in order to control odor inside a flowering room. Let me say for the sake of discussion that the room will be 8'w x12'l x8'h or roughly 800 cu.ft. It will have six 600w HPS lights or 3600watts total. The lights will not be air cooled.
I have a six inch fan tech axial fan rated at 230cfm which I would like to couple to a Can Filter for odor control. Based on cubic footage I would need to run the fan just over three minutes to move 800 cu.ft. of air. Now here is where things get confusing. From what I understand the cfm rating for the fan has to be reduced by half due to pulling air through the filter. Is this true? If so, what size filter will I need?
Looking at the Can-Fan website it would appear that I would need the model #33, but that is just based on airflow rates. Shouldn't I be more concerned with the number of plants within the room (which in my case will be twenty-four)? It just seems that the number of plants has to fit into the equation somehow. The filter would have to extract more odor from the room with 24 plants than it would if there were only 12 plants. Would 16.5lbs.of carbon (their figures) be enough to control odor,and if so for how long? How frequently should I vent the room? Would it be better to recirculate the air within the room using the filter and add an additional extraction fan?
I have a lot of other questions regarding heat,humidity,and CO2 enrichment but I'll save them for another thread.For now I would just like to get the problem of controlling odor resolved. I'm sure I haven't asked all the pertinent questions yet but with some feedback from you guys I'm sure I will get it right.
Respect bass
I have a six inch fan tech axial fan rated at 230cfm which I would like to couple to a Can Filter for odor control. Based on cubic footage I would need to run the fan just over three minutes to move 800 cu.ft. of air. Now here is where things get confusing. From what I understand the cfm rating for the fan has to be reduced by half due to pulling air through the filter. Is this true? If so, what size filter will I need?
Looking at the Can-Fan website it would appear that I would need the model #33, but that is just based on airflow rates. Shouldn't I be more concerned with the number of plants within the room (which in my case will be twenty-four)? It just seems that the number of plants has to fit into the equation somehow. The filter would have to extract more odor from the room with 24 plants than it would if there were only 12 plants. Would 16.5lbs.of carbon (their figures) be enough to control odor,and if so for how long? How frequently should I vent the room? Would it be better to recirculate the air within the room using the filter and add an additional extraction fan?
I have a lot of other questions regarding heat,humidity,and CO2 enrichment but I'll save them for another thread.For now I would just like to get the problem of controlling odor resolved. I'm sure I haven't asked all the pertinent questions yet but with some feedback from you guys I'm sure I will get it right.
Respect bass