Build a carbon filter or buy one?

seeing as you've bought an inline fan you might as well buy a proper carbon filter. But if you enjoy DIY stuff why not make your own itll be cheaper and more satisfying

 

A filter came with my fan, only reason I bought the fan lol.

I thought about DIY'ing a filter but i have a bad habit of going over board. And with all the materials I wanted to buy I wasn't saving much money. If I were to do it over again and buy just a fan a lone, I would just buy a filter. I don't have the time or the money to waste if it doesn't work.

 

i built my own. money will depend on what materials you have lying around. but yea it took me for ages beibg perfectionist aswell. factor in your time anf your much better off buying obe. its guaranteed to work too. which is kinda what you want for smell

 

if youve got one already just use it bro

 

Yeah wallmart has carbon for aquarium filters. works just as good as any. i use in a carbon filter on my bong. keeps it clean.

and diy things are more fun in my opinion. if u think you could.. try. couldn't hurt.

unless you hurt yourself doing it..

 

You will never be able to pack the carbon in a DIY filter dense enough to get anywhere near the benefit of a manufactured filter, so smell will be getting through. All depends on how stealth you need it to be.

 

well if you build it the filter will only be about $20

 

Here is the answer you were lookin for. Easy to Build DIY Carbon Filter

looked it up in bing and BAM.. First page

Also just looked and there are a bunch of videos on youtube for diy

Have fun playing Macgyver. It my favorite thing to do. To make something out of seemingly nothing is always very gratifying. (Why I love growin)

 

Yes, but just like any filter they wear out. But will last 20x longer then anything your going to make.. Idc if your Magyver, those carbon pads have to be changed every few weeks when in flower.

 

That filter is the identical one that came with my fan.

I picked up from amazon a 200cfm inline fan with that filter for $90. The filter works great and should last multiple grows. As we're I hear alot of the DIY filters last 3 weeks.. And those filter pads are crap. 2 weeks tops in flower and you gotta swap, which isn't that bad but if you have to keep buying pads eventually the cheaper route would have been the filter in that link. I say go for filter from led wholesales.

 

They remove the smell out of the bad air. Mine has worked great, never smelled a thing untill I opened the box and as soon as I did that the whole house would stink. I'm not sure how many months or years they may last. But way longer then any DIY filter im sure.

Those filter pads are good to cover intakes with, filter the incoming air and helps block light.

 

I couldn't get that last link to open. But the one you posted from led whole sellers is the same one I have. And it works great go with that one.