Originally Posted by panhead

What i meant by a timer not being able to control the generator output was not that it does not work,but that putting it on a timer "within the grow area" wont be able to stop plant damage, or to regelate the ozone to a point where it does not change the air quality in the room ,plants that are in an ozone rich grow room will end up looking like they have a severe nute burn from too much ozone,humans will get a sore throat from too much ozone.

In a situation where your dumping dirty air to an unused portion of the home like your attic regulation is not needed,you could let it run 24/7 with no negative effects,ozone breaks down very quickly & turns back into oxygen,in an insulated attic it would be next to impossible for ozone levels to reach a level that is bad for humans in the rest of the home,especially if the attic is vented through the roof with roof vents,ridge vent or sofit vents,these generators output levels are low enough where as long as they are used in an unused area they will not create a hazzard to plants,animals or people.

You could & should leave a generator running full time in your attic with no ill effects to you or your family,just install the generator near the exhaust outlet in the attic,turn it on & forget about it.

As for ozone poisioning, the levels needed to reach toxicity are extreme & cant be reached by these generators unless its used in a very small sealed room along with long term exposure to extreme levels.

Your safe with this generator running full time in your attic.

Originally Posted by thelastpirate

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It only takes about .1ppm to begin to be toxic. I'm not saying it isn't a good thing, just that it aint really a good Idea in the house, without really venting it as well. Aside from the toxicity factor, it's flammable as hell.

O3 is a WHOLE lot better an oxidixer, and more flammable, than is O2. AND a lot less stable. Even tho it degrades into O2 in about 30 min, you can get "spontaneous combustion" at concentrations of less than 10ppm. It certainly accellerates oxidation. It's probably not a good Idea to keep that in the attic, or under the house, simply for fires sake. In the presence of O3, a small spark can start a fire that will not go out as long as there is O3 present.

I think Gibbster and Dr Dank are on the right track. If ya put the unit in the vent duct, and use a smaller cfm fan, I would think that along with killing the odor going out it would create negative pressure in the room keeping all odor inside the room.

Originally Posted by potlike

Not really the same thing... Ozone generators will produce small % ions of molecules and ionizers will produce trace amounts of ozone also but while similar they are still different.

Think of air ionizers as static electricity(not really but best example I can give).... generally they produce negative charged gas that attaches themselves to particulate matter(in our case ODOR/bacteria) which happens to be positively charged. Bye bye odor

The way I have understood Ozone generators to work may be incorrect but this is my take... They create O3... the third oxygen atom is unstable and tries to attach itself to bacteria/odor. Once it does that it causes it to oxidize leaving a single oxygen atom as a byproduct.


-potlike

Originally Posted by panhead

Your explaination is pretty much the way i understand ozone as well.

Whatever the science is behind it the stuff works on the spot,i just bought another rental home that had been foreclosed on & sat vacant for about a year,the home was musty as hell,one weekend with one of my larger generators & it smells like a new home.

Originally Posted by Vizion420

those things are bad for you, your animals and anything else in the house