It's Too Hot!

aintgottabhwd

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I have a cab with two rooms the cab is 36"x36"x12". The flower chamber is 24"x36"x12" it has its own intake and exhaust (two 4" inlne 80 CFM fans from HTGsupply) intake at the bottom exhasut at the top. I have a Florolux 150W HPS and it gets to damn hot what do I do. Temps are like 95 degrees the closet the cab is in is like 73 degrees. Help please what do I do get a bigger exhaust fan and just run one exhaust fan and no intake, or make a cool tube out of the two inlines and still get bigger exhaust fan. Can i use the two inlines in a series? Another thing is i cant exhaust out of the closet its a stealth cab Pretty cool actually ill post pics later after i get the temps under control. Again please help!!!!!
 

purplehaze2

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I take it ,its not an air cooled light.its kinda hard to picture what your writing.will wait for pics
 

aintgottabhwd

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its supposed to be air cooled but it just has a 4" flange on the top. Im sucking just right below the lamp the hottest part. i think the fans are just over rated
 

aintgottabhwd

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i adjusted the intake and exhaust to be right on the light. It holding a 84-85 degrees still to hot!!!! i guess i just need to get stronger fan or make a cool tube. Can i put ice under the intake fan so that it cools the air going in.
 

Everready

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Sounds like you have a heat problem now, but will have a smell problem later on. You pretty much have to use ventilation to deal with both. You should get a carbon scrubber for your exhaust to filter the smell that is to come. Your intake is probably fine...but you should have a more powerful fan sucking that hot air from your hood. Problem with that is that your hood has an open face right? Over time the bulb is going to get dirty and that might cause problems. You might need to invest in a hood that you can run an intake to as well, so you can filter it, and even better you can run the intake from the outside then exhaust it back outside, so it is separate from the rest of the box. That would leave you with only having to replace the air inside the cab and filter it on its way out.
Good Luck!
 
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