How can I tell if my carbon filter is working?

Alan Yoneda

Member
How can I tell if my carbon filter is working? I can feel air being blown out of the exhaust fan. I have the phone hooked up directly to the carbon filter. I just don't know how to tell if a carbon filter is working or not. I still have baby plants that don't have a smell yet
 

Kenneth ko

Active Member
I would say unhook your phone ...take a nice healthy shit in a bucket. Leave in in the grow room. No smell through the room and only in grow room=sucess
 

coreywebster

Well-Known Member
Unless you bought a really crap brand filter then it should be fine. Make sure there are absolutely no air leaks between fan and filter because the air and smell will flow through the path of least resistance. Try a hanging a joss stick near the filter ( away from your plants) and stick your face in the outtake.
 

Dumme

Well-Known Member
Is this a real question, I mean, it's like, not to be a dick, but i truly can't tell if you're just fucking with us.

..Guys, I just turned on my bedroom light. Its bright in the room, but, how do I tell if it's working?
 

tokingtiger

Well-Known Member
i personally do not bother putting a filter in my veg room. Those filters never last as long as they say, i get less than a year out of the best. vegging is in same room as flowering, (locked door, secure location and all), I use a 6 inch x 16in Phresh Filter in top of budding, (flowering), tent. just changed one and it was 8 months old. People would come in the house and as soon as they got in the living room, they commented on how nice it smelled. Not what i want, people complain and it creates a problem, not so much legal but still a problem. I think some stinky Caramela got it. I used to have Pineapple Express that had a "Stink" warning on it, i think the caramello is better :+) Relax, the worst thing that can happen to a Cannabis Plant is a spazzy grower. water them every 3-4 days, dont let the tops hit the lights, (burn). and relax. It will take some time.. do not pick too early either, do not open up and look when the 12 hour dark cycle is going... make sure your 12 /12 light / dark is religious. Timers are a must. I still use the cheapests ones and never touch the electronic ones. Mechanical timers for me. Good Luck.
 

tokingtiger

Well-Known Member
Is this a real question, I mean, it's like, not to be a dick, but i truly can't tell if you're just fucking with us.

..Guys, I just turned on my bedroom light. Its bright in the room, but, how do I tell if it's working?
not even close to what he asked, you can see a light, you can live in a grow and it stinks like hell, YOU get used to it, you smell nothing but your neighbor runs up and bangs on your door because your shit is smelling dank all the way down the driveway. I used to always ask a visitor if he smelled anything because my nose was so used to it, guess that is how People lived with themselves when bathing was a yearly thing?
 

Dumme

Well-Known Member
not even close to what he asked, you can see a light, you can live in a grow and it stinks like hell, YOU get used to it, you smell nothing but your neighbor runs up and bangs on your door because your shit is smelling dank all the way down the driveway. I used to always ask a visitor if he smelled anything because my nose was so used to it, guess that is how People lived with themselves when bathing was a yearly thing?
So he's asking if his nose works, got it
 
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