How The F**k Do I Do This????

Is there a device that can cool the air you exhaust from your HPS cooltube before it reaches the end of the duct you are using??

I have no way to ehaust the air out of my house or room so i was wondering if such a device exists for me to exhaust the air from my closet to my room so i can keep the temps in the closet and my room cool.

well they make water coolers for the duct before the light, i dont see why you cant use it at the end for your purposes, kinda expensive tho

A water chiller and radiator would work, but it would cost you a harvest in order to get it all installed and plumbed up, not to mention the additional electricity.

One thing you can do is take a bucket of cool or iced water and blow an oscillating fan over it to chill the room pretty cheap.

You can also seal it, install a portable air conditioner for $250-ish, and then add Co2 as well, but again its a bit of cash.

The easiest way to cool a closet is to not use such a big light, unfortunately.

Is this what you're talkin about?? ICE Box Heat Exchanger - http://htgsupply.com/viewproduct.asp?productID=56054

Alrite well nevermind that. I figured i might be able to vent the air outside. If i just vent the heat from my 600 watt HPS outside will it keep the closet cool if the temp in my stays about 78 degrees??

oops,, if the temp in my room stays at 78 degrees??

If your venting a 600w fan with at least 150cfm of air, your temperatures in your closet shouldnt rise more than 1-2 degrees (f) above room temperature. Just be sure you flower during the day, a 12/12 dryer vent from a closet at night time attracts FLIR.

Yea im gettin the 440cfm fan with the carbon scrubber. I appreciate the information kitty, i was worried about the temps in my closet.

hey joe...that ICEBOX works..but you got to have a water chiller that will keep a large rez at 60F to 65F...and that chiller cant be in the same room for the fact that it will put out a shit load of heat.

You could try venting into the attic

Beansly said:

You could try venting into the attic

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thats what im doing with my next grow due to upgrades. i advise installing a carbon filter. attics still have air vents to the outside and we dont want the neighbors to think were cooking skunks.

If you vent to the attic, just make sure its not to the roof of the attic, and to the floor of the attic. You dont want a steady stream of 100(F) heat coming out of the roof of your house for exactly 12 hours a day. The entire attic area, or the largest open space in the attic, is where you want to vent to. Good luck!

You could just vent back into the room and keep your air conditioning going. Not the most efficient, but pretty simple.

What if i just vent into the wall?? lol, will that work though?

Well we're going to build a box to cap the window, which we'll have to keep open to vent the air. It's an older house, and it's a BITCH. We live someplace where it gets srsly cold in the winter.

Venting into a wall depends on the wall. Usually they are sealed at the floor and the ceiling, so your going to decrease your air flow substantially by restricting its flow. That's why an attic usually works best and attics are also re-vented if theya re too hot with their own fans from the home builder.........

Well I live in a apartment and I didnt really want to cut holes all in the closet, but i guess ima have to.

I was thinking about just exhausting into the ceiling because I looked outside the apartment building and they have vents in between the 1rst and 2nd floors on the outside wall, so i guess if i just exhaust into the ceiling it would go out the vents since im on the first floor.

That sholud work to get tha heat out of the closet right?? venting using a 440cfm fan to cool the 600w hps cooltube out into the ceiling.

tha closet is 2'deep x 5'wide x 7'tall

tattoojoe said:

Well I live in a apartment

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Ooh, dude, that sounds a bit risky...

tattoojoe said:

I was thinking about just exhausting into the ceiling because I looked outside the apartment building and they have vents in between the 1rst and 2nd floors on the outside wall, so i guess if i just exhaust into the ceiling it would go out the vents since im on the first floor.

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are you sure those vents are for the space between the joists? never heard of that in a house or apartments. my guess is they are for the bathrooms or dryer vents.venting the space between floors doesn't seem right in a house because you will let out all the heat in winter or cool in summer.