Has anyone used the HydroGEN Water cooled Co2 Generator?

Grow4Profit

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noone88 said:
We're in the same boat, but i'm in the southern portion of your state. You're lucky to have a lot lower ambient temps during day and night. You're using drain to waste, which will make it a lot easier.

In my area, with 6,000 watts, sealed room, and CO2, one exhaust fan is far from sufficient :)
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I have two exhaust fans, a 1050 cfm 10" can fan, and a old 750 cfm 10"vortex running out of two seperat Carbon filters and Y into one exhaust outlet. I may have to run another 1050 can fan and filter because of smell.

I'm also running 2 800 cfm fans from a carbon filter in the veg room through the lights in the flower room.

I had a 20k BTU ac for temp but the p.o.s broke. I am getting a new one but need to make sure it recirculates the air instaed of dumping the room air outside unfiltered. I have been looking at the 20,500 btu LG at home depot for $499. From what i can see it has a ventalation setting that you can close to recirculate the inside air instead of blowing it out of the room.

Edit: addition: room is about 4,600 cubic feet. and conceted to a 3,500 cubic foot veg room by a playwood door.
 
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noone88

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Grow4Profit said:
I have two exhaust fans, a 1050 cfm 10" can fan, and a old 750 cfm 10"vortex running out of two seperat Carbon filters and Y into one exhaust outlet. I may have to run another 1050 can fan and filter because of smell.

I'm also running 2 800 cfm fans from a carbon filter in the veg room through the lights in the flower room.

I had a 20k BTU ac for temp but the p.o.s broke. I am getting a new one but need to make sure it recirculates the air instaed of dumping the room air outside unfiltered. I have been looking at the 20,500 btu LG at home depot for $499. From what i can see it has a ventalation setting that you can close to recirculate the inside air instead of blowing it out of the room.

Edit: addition: room is about 4,600 cubic feet. and conceted to a 3,500 cubic foot veg room by a playwood door.
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that's just bizarre. I have approximately the same amount of flowering space and I don't really have an odor problem. You should really look into the sealed room concept, with a negative pressure draw through a carbon filter and/or ozone during the night cycle.
 
Rudiger

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Alright, I have to ask. Why aren't you using the ducts on the aircooled lights?
Thanks for the pictures though.
 
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Bob Smith

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Bumping this thread back up, anyone have an idea of the BTUs that a CD-6 or a CD-3 would produce?

Tired of refilling 20lb tanks regularly, and liked everyone else on this thread (it seems), I have the CHHC-1 as well.

Have a natural gas line (my stove) on the other side of my garage wall, so was thinking of just running a natural gas generator and voila, problem solved - only issue is the heat it would produce.

Not going near a water-cooled with a ten foot pole, and temps aren't an issue right now, but I know they will be in the summer, so I'm just trying to get a feel for how hot they actually burn - we talking like wood-burning stove hot, or like a 250 watt HID hot?

Thanks in advance.
 
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cazador

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I got the BTU numbers from the link provided above. The bottom image, on the right two columns show the Max BTU/HR and CU.FT. CO2/HR.
Not bad at all.
 
cazador

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According to their chart, it would take aprox 30min to raise the levels in your room using the cd-6. You might want to think about a larger unit?
 
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Bob Smith

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cazador said:
According to their chart, it would take aprox 30min to raise the levels in your room using the cd-6. You might want to think about a larger unit?
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Sorry, I wasn't very clear on that - the garage is 20x10, but has a 3x4 veg tent in it and a 4x4 flowering tent (which will be upgraded to an 8x4 tent in a few months).

So it'd only be necessary to enrich the 8x4 flower tent with CO2, which is only 32 sq. feet, as opposed to the 200 sq. feet of the entire garage.

Again, thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it.
 
cazador

cazador

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I see that now. Trying to catch up on your grow thread. I'll subscribe and catch you there. I am interested in your CO2 enrichment progress.
 
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mellowmonk

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Grow4Profit said:
I was able to get the room to around 1200 ppm with my exaust fans on. It easily went to 1500 without them. I have sealed the room as best I can using Panda Plastic but the room is real big. There is no way that I can leave the exhaust fans off for 12 hours strait because they are only in they're 3rd week and you can smell it in the garage wich is conected to the grow by a door. That means in full bloom you may be able to smell it on the street. I may have to run another 1000cfm exhaust fan and filter.

I hooked up the HydroGEN generator by running a hard line copper water line directly into the unit. I ran clear tubing for the waste water and ziptied the end to a drain in the floor. I had the NG pipe ran close to the unit and hard piped in the regulator. I put a flexible NG hose from the regulator to the unit. It seemed to fire up most of the time right away. I was playing with the settings alot but it seemed to not fire up a few times. I heard the ignition spark and the water was flowing but no flame. This only hapened a few times but I'm worried that when I'm not there the unit won't fire.

My dilema is: what intervals should I run the exhaust fans at to 1. control the smell 2. keep the heat down?

I was thinking to set the brain up to run the exhaust fans after the temp gets up to 85 and stay on till it gets back down to 75 then shut off. I couldn't figure how to do this with the Chhc-1 but I have only had it for a couple of days. I know how to get the fans to come on at 85F and interlock it with the Co2 so the generator shuts off when the fans are on but how do I get the fans to turn off and the Co2 back on once the temp hits 75F?

If I could do this then I could keep the room at the proper Co2/temp range as well as run the exhaust fans in intervals.

The problem with the fans coming on at 85F and shut back off when they get below 85F is that the fans and Co2 gen will be battleing back and forth constantly and it will make it so the gen has to constantly kick on and off.

any sugestions? or advice on how to set the Chhc-1 to do what I need?
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I have a Hydrogen Pro that I had running for 3 days and ended up sending back to the factory for repair because it just quite firing. I now have it back and I am having trouble with the water draining out of the unit properly. I am running it in a 6000 watt room with 24,000 btu split a/c and dehumidifier. I am going to be working on this unit again tomorrow as I think my problem my be that the drain line does not have enough fall in it so I will be re routing it to see if that helps. It has been a very frustrating experience and I wish I had just bought an air cooled unit at this point. My pump has plenty of lift/power to pump the water but the unit doesn't seem to be able to expell the used water quick enough and therefor the unit gets hot and shuts down. Anybody out there have a similar problem?
 
ScoobyDoobyDoo

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nice, bringing backa 3 year old thread. haha.

i have 2 running right now. never had a single problem with either. plug and play. you need to clean out the intake screen once a month though. if it's clogged the unit won't fire.
 
nixusr

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Glad this thread has been resurrected with some newer feedback. I'm a week away from making a purchase on one of these. I've heard that there are some probs with these but mostly due to insufficient water pump flow to the unit.
 
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