Connecting Tent's Via Ducting, How to keep light out?
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Herb & Suds
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Insulated flex
Actuosity
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insulated flex ducting you mean? How does that stop light from tent A from getting to Tent B?
Herb & Suds
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Oh my bad , I have air activated dampers between my rooms
Thundercat
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The dampers or a 45 degree bend would work well to redirect the light/ block much of it.
Actuosity
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I'd have 1 90 degree bend and 1 45 degree bend, about 12 feet of ducting. Where could I put the dampers?
Jimdamick
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How much light is leaking, because a light leak is no real problem.
A lot of people think that a pot plant needs "total" darkness for 12 hours in the bloom cycle, which is not true,
It has to go down significantly, granted, but a small amount of light entering a grow space will not impact your plants negatively.
I read a post once where the guy was worried about the LED diode from his stereo affecting bloom, lol.
I keep my door ajar between my bloom room and my veg room sometimes, allowing a small amount of light to enter the bloom room, and I can assure you it has no affect.
When I go into the bloom room in the morning before the lights go on, with the light "leak", all the plants are asleep (all leaves drooping, totally happy).
So my point is don't worry about a small light leak, it will have no effect.
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Thundercat
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Honestly if you have that much ducting and at least one bend already I find it hard to believe there is enough light coming in to bother anything. I totally agree with Jimdamick on this. I've had small amounts of light in my room many times with no issues. All winter long this year I left the bottom 1.5 feet of my door open to blow a heater in there. The whole room had a small ambiance of light, but the plants were not getting any direct light or enough to use so they havn't been bothered at all. You gotta think about how bright a full moon is, and how bright things like street lights are outside, but plants still flower and fruit in towns and parks with man made light.
Actuosity
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sounds like ill have no issue, I'm not sure how much will leak through at this point as im waiting on my CMH bulb to arrive. From everything I read light leaks were big issues but if you're growing no problem like that I shouldnt have much. It'll probably be less than 30 PAR worth of light coming in at the base of the tent far below canopy level. definitely less than the moon produces outdoors.
