How to hook inline fan to an air cooled hood in a grow tent

almightyfinesse

almightyfinesse

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i want to do my next grow in a tent but I don't know how to hook my fan up to my air cooled hood so it can exhaust hot air out of my grow tent, I want it to look like this air cooled hood>fan>ducting> out tent
 
almightyfinesse

almightyfinesse

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Thanks for the vid but it really didn't tell me how to hook my linine fan up to my air cooled hood and hang it up in my tent , i have a 6 inch air cooled hood 400 watt hps
 
jondamon

jondamon

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almightyfinesse said:
Thanks for the vid but it really didn't tell me how to hook my linine fan up to my air cooled hood and hang it up in my tent , i have a 6 inch air cooled hood 400 watt hps
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Mount your hood.

Mount your fan.

Connect the 2 with aluminium ducting.

Duct tape and jubilee clips to hold each duct to each item.

If you have a carbon filter then that will need mounting too and connecting to the opposite end of your light.

So it will go.

Hood - ducting - fan - ducting out of tent.

Or it will go
Carbon filter - ducting - hood - ducting - fan - ducting out of tent.



J
 
justugh

justugh

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almightyfinesse said:
Thanks for the vid but it really didn't tell me how to hook my linine fan up to my air cooled hood and hang it up in my tent , i have a 6 inch air cooled hood 400 watt hps
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, yah it does the 2nd video covers that

it tells u to hook it up so the wind blows over the light to keep the fan from getting hot and woren from always moving the hot air

u keep the ducting as strait and lvl as u can with as little bends as u can ...................mounting in the tent well that is jerry rigging with bungie cords to hold it to the cross poles in the tent

or u attach it to the wall


if u want to do it like most of us do it

hang the light have the fan suck passed the light to make negitive pressure then link the other side of the cooltube to a carbon filter
 
Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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Or.........use some self-tapping screws to screw the fan to the filter. So the fan "sucks" from filter. Tape it up with foil tape. Hang fan/filter combo up high. Run ducting to hood, then out of tent. This is how I've been hooking up charcoal filters since the day they came out.
I'm gonna admit, that this way MIGHT not be as efficient as what jondamon has suggested, but I feel it is the safest as far as smell goes.
 
Aeroknow

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dux said:
A hose clamp ?
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Hehehe!
Oh, is the OP asking how to mount fan like this:
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If he is: he's lucky if it "slips" into the flange on the hood. If it does, self tapping screws, than foil tape.

If it doesn't and just butts up to it: Get some sort of metal strapping, and screw it to both the fan and flange on the hood. Than foil tape :-)
 
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auswolf

auswolf

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With 6 inch inline's I just sit them in the socks of the tent.
Hood ducting fan.
Here's a pic of my tent with 2 6 inch fans mounted in the socks.
 

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almightyfinesse

almightyfinesse

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Aeroknow said:
Hehehe!
Oh, is the OP asking how to mount fan like this:
View attachment 3221899
If he is: he's lucky if it "slips" into the flange on the hood. If it does, self tapping screws, than foil tape.

If it doesn't and just butts up to it: Get some sort of metal strapping, and screw it to both the fan and flange on the hood. Than foil tape :-)
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thanks again everybody but this is what I was asking
 
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kingkushEcoast

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Aeroknow said:
Hehehe!
Oh, is the OP asking how to mount fan like this:
View attachment 3221899
If he is: he's lucky if it "slips" into the flange on the hood. If it does, self tapping screws, than foil tape.

If it doesn't and just butts up to it: Get some sort of metal strapping, and screw it to both the fan and flange on the hood. Than foil tape :-)
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Isnt there a mounting collar 6" to 6"? Im looking online and i cant seem to find one. Like whats pictured in 2nd video? whats the part called?
 
justugh

justugh

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kingkushEcoast said:
Whats the collar called connecting the fan to the hood? I need one.
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they are called hose clamps

they sell alot of different sizes ........honsetly check with local hardware store
https://www.amazon.com/Boao-Pieces-Adjustable-Stainless-Clamps/dp/B07HRRW1PF/

they should run u 98 cents to a 1.15 per clamp .........note before u buy test and make sure the screw on the clamp works some jam up

edit a cheaper method is to just use the ducting and then tap it on (they do make a metal type of tape that works well)
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Grade-Aluminum-Foil-Tape/dp/B0778PTNHK/

but this is more permit then a clamp
 
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