They don’t burn the oil. It’s an electric element that heats the oil in the heat exchanger. It like a radiator in a vehicle.
Grow Tent Heater?
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Kerovan
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Source? I use both led's and hid and no difference. Light is light.
tkufoS
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I've used hid ..now led. Yes temps are relative.. going back to hid lights
GBAUTO
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It related to the leaf surface temps.
HID adds a significant amount of IR radiation that heats the leaf-hence the lower temps compared to led.
Budget Buds
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May just be anecdotal but my plants under cob led's do in fact seem to do better at about 82. But I wouldn't be adding a heater to my tent to increase temps if it was only 70
Green Refuge
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Idk if you figured it out yet but I had a similar issue and this little $10 200 watt heater solved it. I keep it running nonsense. The cord on it seems safer and better than the $80 heaters on Amazon.
Soleil Electric Personal Ceramic Mini Heater 250W Indoor Black MH-08B
Soleil Electric Personal Ceramic Mini Heater 250W Indoor Black MH-08B
MyMommaMakesArmyBoots
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Watch those click and twist together style fans lol. They tend to come loose after a while and twist apart. If you're lucky, not much happens.
Mine came apart and the one half must have fell back into the spinning blade. There was a loud bang and ting-a-ling-a-ling coming from my tent at 4 am or so lol! Bits of fan and housing all over.
Mine twisted off because the ducting had a slight torque on it, combined with the vibrations, it finally gave way and hell broke loose
If you run a bead of packing tape around the seam I imagine it would stop that, or maybe some other way you find better. But just a heads up.
HydroKid239
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I know. That’s why I keep it outside the tent. I actually replaced it tho, with an AC infinity T4.
MtRainDog
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Personally I'd avoid portable oil heaters. Just look on Amazon and see how many people say they are fire hazards. I had one and it eventually started melting at the plug/socket.
Ceramic heating element heaters are much safer IMO. I've had a simple milkhouse style heater that never overheats the plug/coord everything remain cool to the touch. Plus by law they all have the emergency shut off feature if they tip over or overrheat.
I suggest whatever heater you purchase for your tent that you let it run for as long as possible in a supervised setting to make sure it's not faulty. Usually if devices are faulty, they will fault very early on.
Always test your gear first!!!
Ceramic heating element heaters are much safer IMO. I've had a simple milkhouse style heater that never overheats the plug/coord everything remain cool to the touch. Plus by law they all have the emergency shut off feature if they tip over or overrheat.
I suggest whatever heater you purchase for your tent that you let it run for as long as possible in a supervised setting to make sure it's not faulty. Usually if devices are faulty, they will fault very early on.
Always test your gear first!!!
MtRainDog
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Another safe alternative is to run HID through a cool tube/ducting and let that heat your tent(s). I heat a 2x2 and 2x4 with a single 250w hps ballast & cool tube that pulls in ambient air from the house.