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There’s not much reflectivity with that cool tube. Glass enclosed double insulated air cooled reflector was one of the best buys I’ve made. Without the glass and a good booster fan pushing air through and out of the tent you’re bound to have heat issues.Honestly for 300 bucks I might just get 2 of these kits lol. https://www.ebay.com/itm/183629526155?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&var=691618141179 View attachment 11162631000 watts dimmable, 2 of each bulb. . I can upgrade stupid easy and vent that heat easily I imagine since im pulling air from the house instead of the tent, strait piping it with a 6 inch loud inline fan blowing it directly outside, now bends no nothing. How much heat will this put off? Ive seen people being able to hold the glass lol. . I got the go to order the lights right now. 300 bucks for an 8x8 grow room, able to use those lights on alot more than just that right? I could get the 600 watt but why not just get the 1k and dim them? Id rather have this for later. . Again, im buying a building, and have a 16 plant limit lol. . I use hydro and can make 1 plant into king kong if I want. Ive seen a single hydro fill up a 5x5 tent. . . I cant imagine doing that with 16 of them. . anways. . .thoughts and concerns?
VIVOSUN Hydroponic 600 Watt HPS Grow Light Air Cooled Reflector Kit - Easy to Set up, High Stability & Compatibility (Enhanced Version) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R9HRCX3/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_AR1TB1DY8BDG5JDM7SYP
Booster fans are cheap and available at Lowe’s as are the flexible duct kits. We don’t use this gear without reason.
There’s not much reflectivity with that cool tube. Glass enclosed double insulated air cooled reflector was one of the best buys I’ve made. Without the glass and a good booster fan pushing air through and out of the tent you’re bound to have heat issues.
You do realize that the open end is generally connected to the proper size ducting. The intake and the exhaust can both be wherever you want them. Check pictures of grow rooms. Note the lack of cool tubes but the presence of air cooled hoods. 1000 watts in a cool tube? Good luck with the heat.So just pull the air up through the grow room? I figured I could buypass the grow room completely. I was going to pull the air in from another room, run it strait through
As for the reflectivity, if I go with 1000watt, it wont matter right? Its a 4x4. Im just suggesting one day ill have an 8x8 that I want to use this same setup for. For now I can just turn it down.
I guess my questions are with the open ended reflector instead of strait through tube. I was going to bypass the grow room air with the inline system. Pull air in from another room, inline the 2 lights, and blow it right out side. If I use those open ended reflectors in your link I will now be pulling air up and through the grow room, through the light? I plan on having another inline fan in the center 1x1 area blowing air outside creating a draw up through the plants, with fans. I guess if I use those open end reflectors, i wont need to pull air from another room, and I wont need two, 6 inch fans, just one large one, and a splitter in the middle right? Can I make a T out of those in that link? One fan for both open ended reflectors?
That reflector with glass in it that you linked, its open ended right? So it sucks the air up through the tent, and out of the tent. The fan would be out of the tent blowing out, using that as an inlet right? Wont that work the exact same way as the open ended cool tubes i showed if I do it that same way?
Im assuming the main difference between our links are reflectivity, thus wasting power? Other than extracting the heat from inside the tent, they should work the same right? It seems it might be easier to just do that instead of run 2 lines lol. . one for tent and one for lights, which was what I was planing on doing with these. I still dont think I can beat those kits for 300 bucks. Get me up and going on a 8x8?? Drop another hundo in plastic/rubber shit and boom. . hydro 8x8. . I imagine my yeilds will be stupid compared to my 2x4. 3 plant cheap led shit. Like for a beginner, wont this be overkill for me? Im using a despensary and its 70 quarter. Good shit, but i smoke a shit ton lol. . Im thinking this setup price will be half the price of my led 2x4, and will produce 4x the amount just as well. Sure more over the long run, but once I get full, ill be able to chill out a bit. Right now I realized I need multiple rotations going. . . this seems to be the best way to do that affordably.
You do realize that the open end is generally connected to the proper size ducting. The intake and the exhaust can both be wherever you want them. Check pictures of grow rooms. Note the lack of cool tubes but the presence of air cooled hoods. 1000 watts in a cool tube? Good luck with the heat.
Yea ballasts are outside room same with res.In sealed or not sealed room, ballasts should be outside grow area it's a must. They put out major heat, Res should be outside as well.
Efficient is the goal without overpaying... Under 83 degrees F leaf temps, water temp under 74 degrees F. In a unsealed room air coming in needs to be hepa filtered
or you will get mold spores/bugs. Air exchange intake/exhaust should be on a timer waste of $ to run non stop. plus you don't need that
much air going in or out. Plants only need the Co2 not oxygen.
Night time temps are what make your day temps, No more than a 10 degree F swing, same goes for Humidity 10 % swing.
Btw Roots look good ready for transplant in new home.
Timing is everything, I'd also get a Laser Temperature Gun, I went to Lowes and got a "General IRT217" does C/F. You can fix hot spots in a room quick, add a fan here and there, or A/C.Yea ballasts are outside room same with res.
Yea the roots look good now but I have to cut the hell out of them before transplant.
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