I just stopped by the hydro shop and got a lot of my questions answered about a new setup I want to do. He told me that I could run a 6" fan with a Y splitter to cool my 400w hps and to run my carbon filter on. My question is how exactly would this set up work? I've been trying to draw it but keep getting confused with where the carbon filter would be placed.
seems like the only right answer would be your light on one end and filter on the other of your y.. then of course the other end of the y going to your fan. But when your aircooling your light wont that suck some odor with it that wont be filtered?
That is why I cant figure out the setup because I thought you would be sucking out some odor from the light as well.
Or could I run it like so: FAN Carbon Filter ^ / \ / \ <=LIGHT=> Fan pulls on carbon filter attached to ducting that splits to suck from both sides of light?
Yea thats gonna be your only safe bet odor wise. I have no idea if the heat from your light has any wear on a carbon filter or not. but it might be something to look into before you do set it up like that.
You must not have read our concerns in the previous posts. Would the odor not come through the light if the carbon filter was attached to another end of the Y?
I had my setup like that for a short while, wasnt pleased at all with it, so I got a 4" Soler & Palau & separated the two. I think its best to have one fan for your lights & another for your exhaust. JMHO...
Hello. I am in the same predicament. what did you end up doing? Was there a bad odor with the Y setup??
Is your light a cool tube? Or is it open to the room/not enclosed? If it's a cool tube or air cooled with a piece of glass under the bulb, you could bring a run of ducting from outside to the light, then from the light to one side of your Y to the fan out of the room to cool the light, other end of the Y gets the carbon filter and exhausts room air through the filter. I'm guessing it's not enclosed, though, if attaching ducting to either side of the light both pulling would work and not create a vacuum...that's probably your best bet if that's the case.
ok well after reading this i dont think it would work at all, if your cooling a hood and using a filter on a y splitter on the same fan you lose preassure and only pull air through the hood the filter needs preassure to suck the air into it while your just allocating the preassure to the hood which needs hardly any air movement to get anything through it. youd do better by running the filter to the fan then to the hood all inline or better yet get another fan and cool the hood separetly fan pushing cool air through it. im probably just babbling on but heres the principal. fan pulls air through filter, fan pushes air through cooled hood its the only way. (ether independantly or inline, preferably the first)
6" inline should be enough to work double duty on a 400w setup. Looks like you've got it figured out. When you cool a light independently from your filter, you take in fresh air from the outside of the tent so it doesn't have to be filtered, like this.
This is what I did. 1 ended light, so I cant do a Y and I have 1 fan. only option I can come up with and DID is to Push thru the carbon fiter on the outside. pic. so smelly air flows thru light, cooling it and then out, thru filter to room. I cannot recommend or say its bad I haven't yet flowered anything im a newb but so far so good and its prob gonna cut filter life/ idk. Good luck ill let you know.
@[member="greenthumb412"] If you're blowing through your filter like that you really need to put the sock or another prefilter inside of it. If you don't your filter will collect a ton of dust quite quickly. OP - I can't figure why you'd need a 'Y' splitter unless you're running 2 strings of lights or something. You should set up like this: filter connects to light, light connects to fan, fan connects to exhaust.
Hey thx for advice. its only sucking in thru the light hood . do you think I need a sock somewhere? totally newb so ty
yeh dude you really need to have a prefilter before air hits the inside of that filter. The original sock can be used but it will have a fold in it...so make sure to fit the sock inside so that there's no airgaps. Trust me it's important to get a prefilter in there otherwise just the normal dust in the air will clog up the filter really quik and it will be more restrictive on your fan and not be nearly as efficient at eliminating smells. I'm sure when you open it up you'll see a layer of dust inside already. I keep my house really clean but there's still a ton of dust in the air...I can see it collecting near the intake and near the exhaust in little nooks and crannys. *the sock being on the outside is doing nothing in your configuration. sorry zoomies, didn't mean to highjack ;v/