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Alright I have some experience here. I have found that "dealing" with the hood heat and using a chiller for that, sucks. At this point I have just gotten another 6 inch high cfm fan to take the heat from the hoods and all together just remove it to the outside of the house instead of cooling that heat in the tent. Its pointless to cool that heat when it can just be extracted. I run a completely sealed tent with co2 and a a/c by the way.
I have three of their products and experimented with almost all.
Hydro Innovations..
Minigen (the water cooling feature is really not needed) Awesome
Icebox (no longer used)
Co2 Monitor
Anyhow long story short, sealed room with hoods vented outside of the grow rocks. Why need to deal with a additional chiller for the hood heat? ;)
Water-cooling your lights via iceboxes works if you have low humidity in your grow rooms.
With what you have specced out, it's a lot of money to buy the water chiller, water-cooled air handler, etc. If you're running 8k x 2, it's cheaper to run 2 3-ton mini-splits. Plus, you don't have to run any ducting or bother with air-cooled hoods. You're looking at $3500 parts+labor per mini-split.
70k just to water-cool your room is way too expensive.
Think about what I was referring to for a while.. Deal with the heat, or get rid of it. I was interested in only using 1 fan at the time so my mind was in a box. The way I have it now is sooo much more efficient. Honestly I am not even using the fan+carbon filter in the tent since its in very early veg.
The fan going to the lights can be ducted directly outside since its sealed. The carbon filter and another high flow 6'inch fan will handle the odor in the sealed tent. Zing!
i <3 hydro innovations !! next big buy i make is a water cooled room..
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