Hello, so I've had my equipment for a long time, set up my tent today, I am ready to go pretty much expect my inline fan for my carbon filter is loud man, its like the hum before a train sets off, I'm in a flat so precautios need to be taken my friends. I ve seen online putting it in a carboard box or a few of them, do you think this will be okay and not be a fire hazard or some shit? At night obviously when the traffic has died down its going to be even louder so it needs sorting out. It's a 6" fan in a 4x4 Maybe I can put the fan outside the tent in lots of box's and just attach more ducting into the tent attaching to the carbon filter. Let me know stoners? I'm baked on good cheese atm so feeling creative.
Do you have a speed controller? I have a hurricane 6 inch inline. If it runs on high, it's loud as fuck. I generally run it on low to low/med and its not as bad.
I think I saw the same youtube video as you. And I just moved into a new apartment, so I’m in the same boat as you. One other thing I was looking into was insulated ducting. If you’re really feeling “rich”, check out Vortex S-Line Ultra Quiet inline fan; there’s a reference video on Youtube. Amazon has it here: There’s also another one for the sake of variety: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B074XBXFPD/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8 Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
I screwed that last reply up! Here’s the Vortex on Amazon; you’ll have to search it on youtube yourself: The other “quiet” fan is this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B074XBXFPD/ref=cm_cr_arp_mb_bdcrb_top?ie=UTF8 Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Haha thanks man I'll take a look, I don't know what works with this fan, ie I don't know if a speed control is possible
When it's on I'll just sit here saying all abroad the train. This shit will get me busted man, box's it is hahaha
I don't know tho it means extra work it's the fan itself loud as shit, hums more than anything n it's in a little room inside a grow tent so it's booming when you walk in
If figure out a solution let me know. I have a 4 inch hurricane and you'd think the thing runs off a diesel engine, I can't imagine a bigger fan. Its definitely a trade off would you rather have the smell or the noise.
You could wrap it in insulation, like the pink fluffy stuff, and you could also line that with the egg cartons that aren't the styrofoam or plastic kind then wrap with a shit load of duct tape
You can add a speed controller to it I’m sure. Amazon has them for like 20 bucks us. Your fan is running on high and probably doesn’t need to be. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
Yeah just plug the speed controller in where you have the fan plugged in then plug the fan into the speed controller
. That fan will plug in straight to the controller. It’s an in-line idk why it wouldn’t work. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
As someone else suggested, I would wrap insulation around it. I also think a speed controller would be a must-have since running the fan slower not only makes it quieter, it also makes the carbon filter more effective. They also have speed controllers with a thermostat... set the day and night temps on it and the fan will speed up or slow down to maintain the temps you set.
What I would do (and what I did do) in your situation is run ducting from the carbon filter to the fan, so it's not all one piece and you have some play. Then hang the carbon filter from bungee cords (hence why you need some play) and the bungee cord will eat the vibration causing the hum. Mine sounded like a diesel engine was idling in my yard. Hung it with a bungee cord and wham, no more diesel engine hum.