Hi Everyone,
I have the same problem that many others have-excessive heat in grow tent-and can't seem to find a good solution from other threads. I was hoping someone might have had the same experience as myself, and found a reasonable solution.
I have a 4' x 3' grow tent with 2 x Kingbrite 240W LED lights and an AC Infinity S6 (6 inch) inline fan. The humidity is very low (25-30%) so I've ordered a small humidifier. That should help the humidity levels a bit and I'm hoping maybe it will help lower the ambient grow tent temperature, as well, but we'll see. The grow tent air is exhausted out of the room the tent is in. The temperature of the room is a constant 22 degrees Celsius/72 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm running 4 autos, the oldest being one month old.
When I have both lights running at 150 W each (300 W total) the temperature in my grow tent rises to around 29 degrees Celsius/84 degrees Fahrenheit. If I understand correctly, temperatures should be no higher than 27 degrees Celsius/80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Lowering the wattage output of the lights to 100 W each (200 W total) takes the temperatures down to around 26 degrees Celsius/79 degrees Fahrenheit. This is an acceptable range but now my problem is I have the ability to use up to 480 W of light total, but am using less than half the available output. I've seen people who have grown nice plants with just 200 W, but it sucks having the ability to use much more power but not being able to.
I'm a new grower, and am thinking I probably should have done more research before buying these lights...$600 CAD for these two lights, when I could have probably bought two Mars Hydro TS600 for one-third of the price is kind of depressing. I guess I can chalk it up to an expensive learning experience!
Another problem I'm facing is my grow tent is in the same room my wife and I use as a home office, meaning I can't crank up the fan to much higher than 3/8 in terms of settings. Again, probably another thing to chalk up to a learning experience! I'm guessing if I was able to crank the fan up to 5/8 or 6/8 it would help a lot but the noise level is far too high for my wife.
Aside from trying to use a portable air conditioner, is there anything else I can do? Running the lights at night won't change anything; the room is at a constant 22 degrees Celsius/72 degrees Fahrenheit. I can't move the tent out of the room, regrettably. Maybe I just don't have a great setup to start with and am stuck leaving the lights really low?
Thank you kindly in advance!
I have the same problem that many others have-excessive heat in grow tent-and can't seem to find a good solution from other threads. I was hoping someone might have had the same experience as myself, and found a reasonable solution.
I have a 4' x 3' grow tent with 2 x Kingbrite 240W LED lights and an AC Infinity S6 (6 inch) inline fan. The humidity is very low (25-30%) so I've ordered a small humidifier. That should help the humidity levels a bit and I'm hoping maybe it will help lower the ambient grow tent temperature, as well, but we'll see. The grow tent air is exhausted out of the room the tent is in. The temperature of the room is a constant 22 degrees Celsius/72 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm running 4 autos, the oldest being one month old.
When I have both lights running at 150 W each (300 W total) the temperature in my grow tent rises to around 29 degrees Celsius/84 degrees Fahrenheit. If I understand correctly, temperatures should be no higher than 27 degrees Celsius/80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Lowering the wattage output of the lights to 100 W each (200 W total) takes the temperatures down to around 26 degrees Celsius/79 degrees Fahrenheit. This is an acceptable range but now my problem is I have the ability to use up to 480 W of light total, but am using less than half the available output. I've seen people who have grown nice plants with just 200 W, but it sucks having the ability to use much more power but not being able to.
I'm a new grower, and am thinking I probably should have done more research before buying these lights...$600 CAD for these two lights, when I could have probably bought two Mars Hydro TS600 for one-third of the price is kind of depressing. I guess I can chalk it up to an expensive learning experience!
Another problem I'm facing is my grow tent is in the same room my wife and I use as a home office, meaning I can't crank up the fan to much higher than 3/8 in terms of settings. Again, probably another thing to chalk up to a learning experience! I'm guessing if I was able to crank the fan up to 5/8 or 6/8 it would help a lot but the noise level is far too high for my wife.
Aside from trying to use a portable air conditioner, is there anything else I can do? Running the lights at night won't change anything; the room is at a constant 22 degrees Celsius/72 degrees Fahrenheit. I can't move the tent out of the room, regrettably. Maybe I just don't have a great setup to start with and am stuck leaving the lights really low?
Thank you kindly in advance!
