Dehumidifier location question

I have a 4x4 tent in my garage and since I live on the coast, humidity is always high. My first grow I experienced PM and since picked up a dehumidifier off craigslist. My question is, should I have the unit in my tent or in the garage (the tent's intake pulls air from the garage and exhausts outside of the house)? I feel like the air in the tent is exchanged at a much faster rate than the dehumidifier unit can pull water from the air effectively. So would it be better to seal off the garage as best as possible and have the air in there dried by the unit before the tent sucks it up? Or is the unit in the tent actually going to be very effective?

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Build enclosure around room and dehumidify outside of tent during lights off and hope like hell that temps dont raise too high

Inside the tent if u have the room. You want the area where your plants are to have right humidty not your garage.

yup, in the tent. you want the dehumidifier to be working in a small area, not trying to deal with your whole garage. but keep an eye on it, if it is a decent dehumidifier, or a large industrial unit, it might do too good of a job, THEN you can place it outside the tent, i would suggest near your intake. see how it goes.

FWIW I have a similar situation except I am in a basement not a garage. A small partial basement about 16 X 30. I run dehumidifier in the basement area and passively suck air into my 5X5 grow room with an inline fan pulling through an air cooled reflector. Exhaust right back into the basement area. Easy to control heat and humidity in grow room. Too cool and I slow down the fan, to hot I speed it up. If I run the humidifier every few days and keep the basement at 65%, my room with lights on will be 50%

Works fine in my situation but might not in yours.

Thanks for the replies guys. I think I found my solution. Since I'll be doing an undercurrent grow this time around, my tent is going to be too crowded to house a dehumidifier so it has to be outside the tent. I wondered if I could have my intake fan pull the treated air directly from the unit into the tent??? I had to test it. The back of my dehumidifier is basically a giant vent so I sealed it shut with duct tape except for a 6" circle that I attached ducting to --> to a 6" booster fan --> directly into the tent. The total duct length is 2ft. When I turned everything on, including the exhaust fan, the rh read 66%. After allowing everything to run for 15 mins, I came back and it had already dropped to 48%! Now I just need to get these buckets put together

I am researching this right now myself. Also, in a garage with a 5x5 tent. One of the threads I found suggested that the humidifier be placed in a box/enclosure about 3 times the size of the unit itself. Cut a vent in the box near the intake and the outtake. Hook the outtake to your ducting etc. This person kept the humidity setting lower than what they wanted in the tent. Made a lot of sense to me but again I just read it, no direct experience.