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Hi,
I have questions about HVAC design for my basement grow room we are currently in construction on...can you confirm for me that this is the correct way to do things? I want: 1) AC system with humidity controls, and 2) proper ventilation for my air cooled reflectors and properly exhausting the hot, smelly weed air out through the roof or outside of the house. So here's the deal..
In the process of setting up the grow room in the basement. Putting in a new AC unit (haven't decided on ductless but looking at the ductless mini split systems with Mitsubishi inverters -- 17,000 btus at 20 seer rating wow they say its like 5 cents an hour to run one of these). This AC will need to be just for this small basement grow room.
I also have 3 - 400w Cool Sun Air Cooled reflectors that I need a seperate ventilation setup/ducting for (apart from the AC system cooling the basement). This ventilation setup should pull fresh air through the intake, and allow me to connect 6" diameter ducting to it and run the ducting through the room across all my air cooled reflectors and exit the room at the ceiling exhaust 6" diameter opening. From the ceiling the ducting will run directly out the roof.
I am planning on using one phat filter 36" x 6" active carbon filter and only one 440 CFM EcoPlus Supreme 6" heavy output inline fan at the end my lights.
SO..my question is, is this the correct way to do ventilation? Am I conceiving it correctly? Two seperate systems, one is the AC unit on a CLOSED loop system. The other is the ventilation loop for bringing in fresh cool intake air through my air cooled lights and pushing it out the room up through the ceiling and out the roof to remove any trace of the smell. Is that the correct way to do this?
So I will need actually TWO intakes (one for AC, the other for air cooled lights ducting) and TWO exhausts (one AC return, one for air cooled lights exiting to roof).
Is that it?
Thanks in advance!
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I have questions about HVAC design for my basement grow room we are currently in construction on...can you confirm for me that this is the correct way to do things? I want: 1) AC system with humidity controls, and 2) proper ventilation for my air cooled reflectors and properly exhausting the hot, smelly weed air out through the roof or outside of the house. So here's the deal..
In the process of setting up the grow room in the basement. Putting in a new AC unit (haven't decided on ductless but looking at the ductless mini split systems with Mitsubishi inverters -- 17,000 btus at 20 seer rating wow they say its like 5 cents an hour to run one of these). This AC will need to be just for this small basement grow room.
I also have 3 - 400w Cool Sun Air Cooled reflectors that I need a seperate ventilation setup/ducting for (apart from the AC system cooling the basement). This ventilation setup should pull fresh air through the intake, and allow me to connect 6" diameter ducting to it and run the ducting through the room across all my air cooled reflectors and exit the room at the ceiling exhaust 6" diameter opening. From the ceiling the ducting will run directly out the roof.
I am planning on using one phat filter 36" x 6" active carbon filter and only one 440 CFM EcoPlus Supreme 6" heavy output inline fan at the end my lights.
SO..my question is, is this the correct way to do ventilation? Am I conceiving it correctly? Two seperate systems, one is the AC unit on a CLOSED loop system. The other is the ventilation loop for bringing in fresh cool intake air through my air cooled lights and pushing it out the room up through the ceiling and out the roof to remove any trace of the smell. Is that the correct way to do this?
So I will need actually TWO intakes (one for AC, the other for air cooled lights ducting) and TWO exhausts (one AC return, one for air cooled lights exiting to roof).
Is that it?
Thanks in advance!
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