400w or 600w for this space?

Hey everyone just a quick question that im hoping a few of you will have personal experience with.
I have a secret jardin dr90 3x3x6.5 i believe
Im about to upgrade my lighting, im trying to decide what will be better a 400w or 600w light.
It will be a digital ballast so i can veg at a lower setting and also to help with heat, which is my main fear!
We are approaching the warmer months where i am and its very common to see solid weeks above 35c
I'll get a cool hood and have a fan exhausting the heat as well as another fan with a cf (the cf wont be used until flower) for ventilation.
I have a portable a/c but no real air conditioning in the house.
Also i will be able exhausting outside through a window.
I plan on using a soil/perlite mix for medium if that helps.
But yeah would it be a bit tricky cooling a 600w in this space under these circumstances? will a 400w still put out too much heat? etc etc
 

Chef420

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I have the same tent with a 600w hps. You'll need some kind of air cooled reflector. I'm using a cooltube. I use passive intakes (3) and exhaust through the cooltube. The intake end of the cooltube has ducting attached to it and is the intake end of the exhaust.
 

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Thanks chef!
What do your temps sit at? both inside the tent and also the room its in?
Also what cfm are your fans rated at?
I was hoping to get away with a fan for cooling the bulb, a fan for the CF and ventilation and then just an ordinary fan to keep air moving inside the tent.
On hot days i was thinking of setting up even an esky full of icy water outside the tent and have a fan blowing over top of it into one of the windows of the tent.
Has anyone else tried something like this?
 
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