Any ways to dehumidify the room naturally using outside cold air?

carlito

Active Member
Has anyone ever tried to take out moisture from your grow room without using an actual dehumidifier? I find that the dehumidifier from the store takes too much power and there must be a way to replicate the same mechanism using natural cold air outside and maybe have a bucket somewhere to collect the water. The other way is to vent the hot air right into your living space but this will cause too much condensation on the windows. Anyone ever designed a way to dehumidify using natural physics without plugging into power?

Here's a link of how a dehumidifier works
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/dehumidifier.html
 

UptheDownstair

Well-Known Member
Interesting question. I had never looked into how dehumidifers worked and that link made it perfectly clear.

Seems like it would be pretty simple - perhaps not quite as effective, but still functional - to create a similar setup without the dehumidifer if you live in a cold climate...

Just run a fan-powered vent outside the house that perhaps passes over a grille that radiates the cold air...then just have the condensation drip right into the ground...then the cool, dehumidified air can be pulled by another fan thru the other side of this vent, back into the grow room. Seems like a good way to have benefit to living in the cold.
 

growlegal

New Member
Well I live in a cool climate, the current temp is 42 f and the humidity is 97%. I doubt it. Dehumidifier power consumption is the least of my worries.lol
 
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