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If your looking to decrease your exhaust you can install a manual damper with a locking nut. Restrict air flow to what you want. Keep in mind the motor to the centrifugal inline fans is in the airflow and relies on air passing through to keep the motor cool.
My advice is get the exhaust out of the house. A room that size can easily put 5 gals of water a day in to your attic. that's just asking for mold too breed .I finally have my room all set up and ready. It is a 10' x 11' room I've been using this forum a lot and reading up on a lot of information. I also have tons of friends who grow too but I personally haven't done it before yet. It would be nice to get feedback and any suggestions that you guys might have.
Man....building the room to how I wanted and was satisfied with it was a shit ton of work. The ducts were the worst part and the part I hated the most. I'm running a 2x 10 inch q-max fans, one for intake and one for exhaust with a charcoal filter on the exhaust. I used insulated ducting and shooting my exhaust up into the attic. I think most people have their intake set up so it shoots out somewhere around the floor but mine comes out from the ceiling with a insulated duct hanging down and shooting down into the room. I didn't want to cut open a hole in my hardwood floor and there was no option for a window duct for the room. I also panda filmed the walls and install some lining on the hardwood floor. I used pond liner which I got as an idea from of my other friends. It's pretty thick so it is really durable and pretty easy to clean up. I'm using 4x 1000 Gavita HPS lights. I have HLG 600 V2 Rspec LED lights coming on the way but I probably won't switch to them until later Spring. I also got some wifi hygrometers so I can keep track of my temps and humidity on my phone whenever I want without having to go into the room and have alerts set up to alert me if temps/humidity is too high or too low. I also have two 16in Hurricane wall fans.
My advice is get the exhaust out of the house. A room that size can easily put 5 gals of water a day in to your attic. that's just asking for mold too breed .
I would at least run the vent to whatever vent is already there.I'm not sure how I'm gonna do that. I also don't want any holes or ducts sticking out from the house that people can see. My logic was that it might be ok with the vents to the roof in the attic but if I needed to then stick a hygrometer up there and put a dehumidifier if I really needed to. Do you think it is a bad idea?
Ok thanks I'll look into thatI would at least run the vent to whatever vent is already there.
I use a small grow box for seedlings and clones I vent it with a 12v fan and a timer set for 30 sec on every 15 minutes. This allows me to keep the temp 75 -78f and the humidity in the 60s. The light keeps the box warm enough & the wet soil keep the humidity in check.Ok thanks I'll look into that
The easiest way to handle that is to get something like a dryer vent connector from Lowe’s etc. they have them in different sizes and you can run it horizontally in the attic and out of a gable. No one will know what it isI'm not sure how I'm gonna do that. I also don't want any holes or ducts sticking out from the house that people can see. My logic was that it might be ok with the vents to the roof in the attic but if I needed to then stick a hygrometer up there and put a dehumidifier if I really needed to. Do you think it is a bad idea?
Multiple speed controllers will cause over heating And result in failureOne of the first issues I'm encountering is keeping an ideal environment that I want. I want to be able to keep veg at 70F-78F at 50-60 humidity. I'm running the lights at 3 feet at 600 watts and will gradually bump up later. I'm only running 2 lights so far on the back side of the room where the girls are directly under. I don't see a need to turn on the other two lights right now. I'm hanging my hygrometer near plant level and one up on the wall above light line. After my first night lights off cycle, I found it hard to maintain a temp above 66F, was generally at 64-65F. I'm doing a 18/6 cycle with lights off from 9am-3pm. I tried various things like also turning off my exhaust fan but obviously my humidity would shoot up and was up around 77-80 humidity. I'm also not running my intake fan at all since the exhaust fan is already pulling enough air from the intake duct without running the intake fan. The exhaust fan is also on the lowest setting and also is still really strong on low. It should be a good thing but I wish there was even a slightly lower setting lol. I tried putting one of my personal small heaters in the room but it didn't help much at all. I'm thinking I may have to get a bigger, better working heater. I saw some people recommend putting the heater next to the intake to warm up the air from the intake but I don't have that option since my intake duct comes out from the ceiling. I also thought about the option of turning off the exhaust during night and get a dehumidifier but I want fresh air going to the girls all the time. Plus, my neighbors house on both sides are really close and I also store a lot of things in the attic where I'm shooting the exhaust into so I want to also prevent any odor build up.
I also would ideally want my humidity around 50-60 but even with my exhaust on the lowest, my humidity is at 44-45% at around 75ish temps during day. Any ideas or tricks to slightly increase the humidity?
Multiple speed controllers will cause over heating And result in failure
The easiest way to handle that is to get something like a dryer vent connector from Lowe’s etc. they have them in different sizes and you can run it horizontally in the attic and out of a gable. No one will know what it is
Inkbirds have a 3 min delay programmed into them i think. Sure maybe a touch more wear and tear but not like those cheap speed controllers. The 3 min delay pertains to once it shuts off it will not come on for 3 mins even of called for. This is typically to protect any compressors that may be running on equipment. But on/off is absolutely an option imo. I think the delay can also be programmed but maybe double checkYea that's pretty much the general consensus I came across is that the speed controllers are bad and can cause early failure and loud humming. Unless I get a variac but theyre pretty pricey. I think I'll just stick with getting a damper. Do you know if turning off/on your duct fan is bad? I was thinking of hooking it up to a smart plug to turn off/on to certain temps and humidity. It should basically be the same as when people run fan temp/humodity controllers right? I spent a lot on this q max pro so just want to make sure i dont end up ruining it.
Yes you are correct! I learned the hard way with a cheapo controller that burned out a compressor on my AC unit. Now Inkbird all the way or a cloudline fanInkbirds have a 3 min delay programmed into them i think. Sure maybe a touch more wear and tear but not like those cheap speed controllers. The 3 min delay pertains to once it shuts off it will not come on for 3 mins even of called for. This is typically to protect any compressors that may be running on equipment. But on/off is absolutely an option imo. I think the delay can also be programmed but maybe double check
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