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Reply With Quoteyou said it. you are sucking all of your enviroment out, including the cooled air.
Increasing efficiency
Just wondering if I could get some different ideas on how to set up ventilation to be more efficient.
Right now I have 2 tents, 600w in 4x4, and 1000w in 5x5. Each light is cooled by its own 6" fan sucking out of the tent through an open ended reflector.
I have a window a/c ducted in to both tents coming off a tee and adapter i made to fit the a/c vent. The a/c pretty much runs non-stop.
It's been hot lately and even running at night it's been staying about 80-87 degrees in both tents. Lights off temps are around 72-80.
The room itself that the tents are in is not very well insulated. I suppose I could put up some panels to help.
I know there are different ways to do it. Maybe pull air from the room through the hoods and just let the a/c pump the air into the tents? Or something else?
Just trying to see what people think would work better before I go changing a bunch of stuff.
Need to work with what I have in terms of equipment. I have no carbon scrubber at this time.
Thanks for looking.
Last edited by tehgenoc1de; 08-21-2012 at 06:15 AM.
you said it. you are sucking all of your enviroment out, including the cooled air.
Ill throw this out there What kinda fan a inline?Do you have a Cooltube with the open end?Like Super says if your not even getting any colder with lights off your sucking all the cool air out!
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The sealed lights are the best for the tents, just suck that air out and your ac will not have to run as much to keep the small tents cool. Hood cost about 90 bucks
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I have sealed hoods. I leave one end open sucking air out of the tent and exhausting it out of the room.
Fans aren't top of the line, just have 6" green Hydrofarm fans.
Guess I'll just duct it differently and see for myself.
Thanks.
suck air in from outside your tent... pull that across your lights and exhaust outside of the tent(and then somewhere else, otherwise youll eventually pull hot air back through your system). If you're trying to cool your room and your sucking the air from your room you're just wasting $ on AC and that thing will never stop working.
he is right, think about it. you are wanting efficient and you have the most inefficient setup on the lights. the whole light cooling system should be its own setup. air from outside pulled through the lights and pushed back outside by the fan. keep your enviroment controls seperate.
This sounds lik a planOriginally Posted by The Count
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