home depot fans

korn534 said:

are fans you can get from home depot lowes etc any good? fans at stores like home depot seem very cheap $30-50 bucks but whenever i check out fans online from growing websites they are much more expensive. fans like vortex and others are hundreds of dollars. why the difference in price? should i spend the extra money for a more expensive fan or can i use a cheaper fan from home depot? i want a 6in inline fan and my grow closet isnt to big about 6-7feet long width 2-3 feet and a ceiling of about 8 ft tall.

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those inline fans from the depot suck. do not buy unless you want heat issues. they dont move enough air especially for your size room. buy a good fan and you wont be sorry. i learned the hard way.

Here's some pics of the set-up

I don't know what kind of crap home depot sell if a sharp bend will almost shut down one of their fans! The ones we get here in DIY shops are pretty good I've found, as long as you get a greater cfm than you need.
That stanley fan is a bit unnecessary isn't it? You'd need a pretty big op to require over 1200cfm! It does seem like great value for that kind of flow rate but my 240cfm exhaust fan makes a hell of a whooshing sound at either end of the ducting, I don't like to think how loud it would be at five times the flow rate!

the inline duct fans should be used for air intake only. The "can fans" are used to cool light and exhaust the room. I have my can fans "pulling" room air through the light and pushing out through the carbon filter. If I push air through my light, all the little seems and holes in my hood become heat LEAKS, THATS WHY YOU PULL THROUGH YOUR LIGHT. Now the seems and holes become little suckers pulling hot air from around the hood IN. I use a inline duct fan to boost the air coming into the room from the a/c vent just for a little added cooling in the summer but thats all its good for. I use a kitchen/bathroom fan mounted on the ceiling to exhuast the hot air thats trapped high, actually 2, 1 in each room, into a "Y" and out through a carbon filter and they work fine against the restriction. heres a couple pics, filters in window box,exhaust fans, ect.... the way i have it set up, im cooling 2 x 1000w with 1 x 4" growbright can fan. Im adding a 2nd light to my flower room this week. My setup will change a little. Now im adding a 6" to cool the 2 in the flower room and the 4 i have will cool the veg room light. these are all open to room air so they work as exhaust too.

Rom420 said:

Here's some pics of the set-up

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how loud are those stanley fans

korn534 said:

how loud are those stanley fans

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About medium loud, lol. Louder than the inline duct fans, but quieter than a big Vortex.

Mine has three settings though I believe. For the amount of air it moves I'd say it is less noisy than you would expect, but not entirely stealth. Not sure what to compare it to, maybe go to the store and plug it in.

just compare the cfm of the fans. A lot of growing sites are way overpriced just because people think those products will be better for growing than what they can find at a normal store

thaman420 said:

just compare the cfm of the fans. A lot of growing sites are way overpriced just because people think those products will be better for growing than what they can find at a normal store

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It doesn't work like that. CFMs are based on NO, that means ZERO obstructions. Is that the way you use a fan? Of course not. Some fans handle what is called static pressure (carbon filter, bends in ducts, HEPA filters, etc) better, others like the inline duct fan almost shut down at the slightest bit of static pressure. In short, there is a huge difference which has nothing to do with grow stores raising prices.

would that stanley fan work with my 6 in air cooled reflector?