Green Troll
Active Member
Just a tip for next time you replace your filter, get the next size up. Never have a filter with a smaller airflow rating than your fan. Stresses your fan and it counter productive. Looks like you have a stubby filter (300mm length) so next time get a 600mm or go up a size in diameter and use a reducer to make the duct fit. The extra cost in filter should make it last a bit longer to balance out. More surface area = more carbon to soak up those magical smells.
As for the hood, if you can, invest in a cool tube, or make your own. Perspex tubing is cheap from ebay. Cover the top half in mylar. It won't be as good as the real thing reflector wise but it will certainly drop those temps down. Looking at your light, you might even be able to just set the reflector you have on top of the tube. Just make sure the bulb is properly suspended inside the tube and not touching the sides, unless you like the taste of melted plastic on your buds
Set it up with the filter on one end, the fan on the other, light between the two, and you should notice a massive difference as the heat it getting sucked from the source.
Of course being summer doesn't help much. Good luck dude. Keep us informed.
As for the hood, if you can, invest in a cool tube, or make your own. Perspex tubing is cheap from ebay. Cover the top half in mylar. It won't be as good as the real thing reflector wise but it will certainly drop those temps down. Looking at your light, you might even be able to just set the reflector you have on top of the tube. Just make sure the bulb is properly suspended inside the tube and not touching the sides, unless you like the taste of melted plastic on your buds
Set it up with the filter on one end, the fan on the other, light between the two, and you should notice a massive difference as the heat it getting sucked from the source.Of course being summer doesn't help much. Good luck dude. Keep us informed.
