Anyone use a Panasonic Bathroom Fan with a DIY Carbon Filter

greenman28

Active Member
I'm wondering if anyone else has tried using a Panasonic WhisperCeiling (or similar) bathroom fan with a DIY carbon filter, and can describe the performance? I'm looking at the fan in the link below and I figure from the graph that it would be good for my closet even at .65" of static pressure (my closet is very small).

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=8&url=http://panasonicvu.buildingmedia.com/studyguides/WC_FV-11VQ3_Spec.pdf&ei=qXqoSuuTEI2SsgPh6p37BA&usg=AFQjCNFuLZQjtTZeYubMU8afJHb9i0KO5A&sig2=K6ZT65oIo0BrAmqrEBdq8A

I'm just wondering if these fans would be powerful enough to produce ANY airflow with a carbon filter like the one in the link below:

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/7074-easy-build-diy-carbon-filter.html
 
I'm wondering if anyone else has tried using a Panasonic WhisperCeiling (or similar) bathroom fan with a DIY carbon filter, and can describe the performance? I'm looking at the fan in the link below and I figure from the graph that it would be good for my closet even at .65" of static pressure (my closet is very small).

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=8&url=http://panasonicvu.buildingmedia.com/studyguides/WC_FV-11VQ3_Spec.pdf&ei=qXqoSuuTEI2SsgPh6p37BA&usg=AFQjCNFuLZQjtTZeYubMU8afJHb9i0KO5A&sig2=K6ZT65oIo0BrAmqrEBdq8A

I'm just wondering if these fans would be powerful enough to produce ANY airflow with a carbon filter like the one in the link below:

https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/7074-easy-build-diy-carbon-filter.html
it says in the post that he used a 60cfm fan. I imagine 110cfm fan would be fine.
 

itsgrowinglikeaweed

Well-Known Member
I think that that fan AND that filter are TOTALLY inadequate. I could smell your grow from here! That fan will work with that filter, but i just do not believe that it would be very effective at reducing odors. At least not MJ odors.
My DIY carbon filter uses more than 10 times the amount of filter material and carbon as that one. That thin filter wouldn't filter out a fart IMO!
https://www.rollitup.org/do-yourself/208281-diy-carbon-filter-25-a.html
 
I use a 50cfm fan for my stealth grow space. Works like a charm with my DIY Carbon scrubber. Cant smell a thing until I open the doors, when WHAM. smack to the face with MJ smell
 

greenman28

Active Member
The number of CFMs has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not a fan can blow through a scrubber. The thing that determines this is called "static pressure", and those inline vortex-style fans can handle more static pressure than this bathroom fan. In the link I gave there is a graph showing airflow vs. static pressure. My cab is only 24 sq ft, so if even a little bit of air gets through that's good enough.

itsgrowinglikeaweed, read the carbon scrubber post, all of those people who tried it disagree with you.

josemeetlopez, can you please tell me what model of fan you have, or at least what kind? Some fans handle static pressure better than others (as mentioned above).
 

itsgrowinglikeaweed

Well-Known Member
itsgrowinglikeaweed, read the carbon scrubber post, all of those people who tried it disagree with you.

Regardless of how well that filter actually works, I was just trying to tell you that you can easily make a MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE filter. Do you currently have a carbon filter? I have several. I know how well each of them works. The people who say that that filter works good, I ask... it works good compared to what? Compared to nothing at all? Yeah I'm sure that compared to no filter at all it works awesome. But compared to a filter with more than 10 times the carbon, it will not work very well at all.
 
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