40$$ Carbon Air Scrubber Without Any Cutting, Pipe Fitting, or Work! Stoner Friendly

JohnBudZ said:

Also another thought crush the activated carbon (dont inhale wear mask) and make more surface area of carbon available to scrub the air!

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I was already thinking that too, lol. Glad I was able to steal this idea, for sure. Save a lot of time and money.

Learning2Hydro said:

I was already thinking that too, lol. Glad I was able to steal this idea, for sure. Save a lot of time and money.

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Right dude? this things is awesome ive actually got the exhaust aim towards my plants so while scrubbing the air free of smell it is strengthening my plant! and circulating air

I bought one of these when I started a few years ago
mine is a honywell with a similar cartridge filter.
I run mine 24/7 usually and just bought carbon sheets and cut them to size as replacements as well as adding a few layers.
My Area is 2x2x4.5 and it scrubs very nicely outside the tent just sitting in my room.
I am using 8 dangling cfls in my tent so the low heat helps controlling the smell as well.
I am also using a pc fan for exhaust. That I had lying around. I don't know much about it but it just happens to blow incredibly hard. I have it connected to some basic cheap ducting and I shoved some of the carbon sheets in there as well and it just vents into the room.

I just need to yield a couple ounces a month for myself and this does the trick
like the others say it only works for a small low heat grow.

Working great for me so far. No odor that I've noticed. In fact, I sealed up my OnaGel container and am just saving it for later.

Where did you get the carbon sheets Private Reserve? Anyways, I am going to target this week and get the air cleaner and then to Petsmart for charcoal.

I have a standard Phresh air filter connected to extract fan, but it is nearing it's end and I would rather have a cheaper and easier odor solution.

I can smell the bud in my house now. Its probably due more to the high temps I run in the grow room as opposed to the scrubber not working. But I am going to have to add more odor control pronto.

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It's got carbon in there, I just didn't feel like messing with the pre-filter again. Working great so far, can't smell anything except in the closet itself. I used to be able to smell it in the bedroom and in the bathroom and a little bit in the hall but now no smell but in the hall way. Mind you I'm only 32 days into flower, it is still doing a wonderful job. + if I ever upgrade my odor protection I'll have a nice HEPA filter unit for my room well done man! Thanks for the ingenuity! +rep

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It's got carbon in there, I just didn't feel like messing with the pre-filter again. Working great so far, can't smell anything except in the closet itself. I used to be able to smell it in the bedroom and in the bathroom and a little bit in the hall but now no smell but in the hall way. Mind you I'm only 32 days into flower, it is still doing a wonderful job. + if I ever upgrade my odor protection I'll have a nice HEPA filter unit for my room well done man! Thanks for the ingenuity! +rep

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np dude haha glad it worked well for you aswell

Whoops I meant I can only smell it in the closet now, not the hallway!

Green Inferno said:

I have one of these here:

http://www.lowes.com/pd_334093-74309-04530GM_0__?productId=3306338&Ntt=hamilton+beach+air+purifier&pl=1&currentURL=/pl__0__s?Ntt=hamilton+beach+air+purifier

I use it along with an Ona block. Total cost of $12 maybe. The air filter plugin cost me $7.99 at Lowes, it came with "green meadow" scented refills. It has a little carbon filter, and the scented thing. I have the Ona block almost completely closed. I can't smell anything but the "green meadow", and a little of the Ona. My grow area is pretty small, 2 x 2, with 5 small plants, all 16" and under.

Once the filter needs replacing, I will modify the thing and see what I can do to it, those replacement filters cost more than the unit. Activated charcoal is pretty cheap at the pet store.

I almost bought one of those bigger fan + carbon filters, for like $150. But for a 2 x 2 area, that is a little much. What I have is working great. Doubt it'd work for a larger grow though.

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head into Home Depot, they sell carbon filter pads for $5, they're about 8'x8" square and would trim nicely

I went out and purchased on of these units at Lowes for $14.99 and installed it on the wall inside my cabinet with the fruity scent cartridge and for a day it really over-powered the air inside with the so called natural scent. I took the scent cartridge out and just left it on for a day and that combined with my home made exhaust and a bag of odor absorbing stone, all I smell is clean air. Now I have four fans working inside it and the light strip. It's amazing how much aroma comes from 4 small plants @ 4 weeks into growth.

Farfenugen said:

I went out and purchased on of these units at Lowes for $14.99 and installed it on the wall inside my cabinet with the fruity scent cartridge and for a day it really over-powered the air inside with the so called natural scent. I took the scent cartridge out and just left it on for a day and that combined with my home made exhaust and a bag of odor absorbing stone, all I smell is clean air. Now I have four fans working inside it and the light strip. It's amazing how much aroma comes from 4 small plants @ 4 weeks into growth.

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Especially if the grower knows what hes going haha do you have a grow journal? Some pics?

i'm a noob, but can you not just put carbon attached to the front of a regular, small fan?

I guess you could not saying it will work haha. How would you get carbon on the front of a regular fan if i may ask?

So i like this idea and have a similar hepa filter i am going to try this on. Another easy, quick solution would be to get a pair of pantyhose and some charcoal. Stuff the pantyhose with charcoal and tie it off. stuff that into your line somewhere and youre good to go. easy money.

To the o.p.: Wouldn't the crushed carbon clog the filter? And how long is it effective?

I also am using a holmes air purifier with two hepa filters and it works great. the only thing I did different was i bought mine at goodwill for 8 bucks and it had filters already in there. so I went bought some carbon and then cut out the old hepa filter material took a filter for your floor registers and duct tapped it to the front poured in the carbon and then placed the carbon filter sheet on top and tapped a second register vent to the front. I did this on one and bought a second hepa filter for the other slot. I have not had any smell in my room for quite some time. I have the second old filter handy in case I need to add more carbon instead of filtering the air. which get dones any way when the air is forced through the towel thats in a bucket of water for humidity.