So here's the dilemma I am in. My hood is huge magnum xxl and it fits in my 3x3 but no room left for fan filter. I will give you a couple pictures but just looking for some opinions how it should go.
I'd say your choice is either duct the hood using the ports shown and just don't move it or use a scrubber and put the scrubber on the floor/ground and connect that to the hood and run the duct from the hood to the port and exhaust out from there. Just some ideas...
Cool man so I can throw a hard duct 90 at one end of my light with flex duct to carbon filter and at the other end run flex duct out tent to my fan mounted on the ceiling exhausted through ceiling of room to attic? I got my other tent set up with filter attached directly to fan then duct through light out tent. Never had to put it on floor as I know it's not ideal.
What lamp are you running ? What are temps without the hood. Does the hood fit if you spin tge other way? Not ideal but you can use flex duct then.. I just dont like hoods.. i use 12inch extractor and a 10inch intake directly from outside, creates negative pressure and sits me around 24c.. i was sat at 27c running 3hps cooling this way but had no wiggle room on hot days so iv ditched hps.
Well the guy at the hydro store kind of screwed me so I have that big hps/mh reflector with a converter for 315 lec bulb which is a pro par 4200. I was running the setup in a 5x5 and I upgraded to qb96 in there and got a new 3x3 tent that I have been running some CFL bulbs because I was waiting on fan filter. To make things worse the port holes on the sides are 4 in. Wtf, the two holes at the top are 6 in though.the room they are in stays around 65-85 and inside my big tent I stay within the 70-80 range with slight overs and unders depending on weather.
Yea you will struggle to cool that space without cooling that bulb man, spim thr hood, flexi duct.. that gunna work?
It a tight fit but I will show you what I got I did spin it the other way it's a 3x3 so it fits but tight. I was looking and want to know if it would be a bad idea to run a reducer on the exit side of my light filter then fan coming in from the other side.
Yea show us a pic, i mean.. the other option is to buy a slightly bigger tent which would be cheaper than buying a new hood with thw cmh converter i think.
I will show you what I have conncocted in the morrning but basicly there are alot of bends the fan filter is sitting on the floor and the hood is in there at a diagonal. Lol I think the fan will be able to handle it till I get some money to get the situation fixed.
I agree that putting the scrubber on the floor/ground is not the best thing to do. In fact, I had no choice but to hang mine because it does extract the heat too; but in your case I think if you hung the scrubber you would not have enough height to grow out a larger plant. Set the scrubber on the floor, put the fan on it, duct tape the fan to the scrubber, attach duct to the fan, lower the reflector to 12" above the surface of the soil, attach the duct coming out of the fan to the reflector. On the other side of the reflector attach another piece of duct to that and run the duct out through the hole at the top of the tent. The scrubber/fan combination takes the place of one plant. That would be a "typical" setup for a tent. I get the impression that you can modify your home for your grow area. If that's the case I would highly recommend (no pun intended there, lol) that you duct the air from the tent all the way out through your roof. I have read several horror stories about people who have ducted the heat from their tent/grow area into the attic and one day they come home and their ceiling(s) have all caved in because the humidity from the tent got the insulation wet and the weight of the wet insulation caused the ceilings to cave; so please keep an eye on that. After sleeping on this, here is another thought: as you open your tent position your reflector to where the ports/holes are on either side, left and right. Put a nylon stocking, or equivalent, on the left hole. Run duct work from the right reflector port/hole to your fan (which should have already been mounted) and then run duct from the other side of the fan out of the tent and connect that to your scrubber outside of the tent. This would not do a whole lot to extract the heat from the house/room but it would get it out of the tent at least.
I would recommend that you alter the holes to a minimum of 6", if not 8". If at all possible I think I would also run the lec as much as possible. I am under the impression that lec bulbs run a lot cooler than HID, so this may help with heat issues.
I have been running it for an hour so far and it's been doing good around 76-81 hope it stays that way. Check it out pictures suck big time but you get the idea. I do not have a light in the room other than the lights in the tent.
Problem is that fan is so powerful that it shakes my plants too much. I have them positioned so they are not too bad. Hope I can keep the temps down with lower speed on the fan.
If that hood has ports on each side ull prolly wanna run fresh air threw it and out the other side exhausting out tent!!? Sent from my SM-J727P using Tapatalk
It is running out of the tent it just venting through the top hole of the tent because my side holes are 4 in.
