If I buy an air coolable hood and have that exhausting to the outside then how do I control odor? Wont the air coming from the lights smell also? I guess you have to use an inline style filter? So I guess Im asking people that have coolable hoods how they control odor

use a growanator. It some sort of light that kills the smell

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if you have duct work running out either side of a glass enclosed reflector (one side will have the exhaust fan sucking air through the light and to the outside) no odor will come out. However, you'll need to have a separate exhaust fan (and corresponding intake holes) to exhaust your grow area - and the air coming out of that fan will be stinky! (but in a good way) so you'll want to exhaust that air into a carbon filter - does that make sense?

gotcha. So you make it so it goes from outside air straight through the hood straight to outside, No smell. See i knew i was just being stupid... Thanks

not stupid at all. i recall asking a similar question only a few months ago.

and you can suck the air through the light and to the outside and use just one fan. but i think it is more effective to divide the duties between two fans.

while i got someones attention let me ask you an electrical question. I want to run 2 600 watt hps, say 4 fans total 2 exhaust and 2 circ. There may be a few other things that will draw minimal power. Is this safe for a 100amp rated house. The lights will be running 12hrs only. Im thinking 8pm - 8am the power draw during this time is minimal in the house. So is there anything special I will need to do electrically? The 2 6's should be fine sharing a timer right? And as long as everything else comes from another outlet then im good right?

somebody knows the answer

you shouldn't draw more than 75-80% of the circuits amp rating. For example: a 15 amp circuit shouldn't draw more than 12 amps. All the equipment you list could exceed a single 12 amp circuit - but you'd have to add them all up plus any household lights, T.V.s, radios, etc... I installed two new 20 amp circuits for my new system.

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right, so you have more than 100 amp service then? What if I dont have that much extra available? Then do I somehow tie into another area that I know will not be drawing power at that time?

do you have access to your circuit breaker box?

you should be able to run all your equipment on a standard two-outlet receptacle provided nothing else (or at least very little else) is running off the same circuit. You wouldn't want to try to run large appliances (like furnaces, refrigerators, etc..) off the same circuit as your lights.

I think there are a couple of electricians on the site that may be able to give you more useful advice.

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