solarguy
Active Member
i have a 600watt hps, air cooled with 400cfm fan. my set up will be inside of a 5x5x7 tent inside of a 9x10x12 room....in the room i have the attic access to exhaust and i also have the crawl space access which grabs air from under the house (no basement). I can shut the door to the room and make it closed but for the past 6 months i have just left the door open and circulating air from the house itself instead of sending air out of the attic and pulling it in...i haven't been grabbing air form under the house instead i have been just using the air inside the house to circulate....
well now it is summer and yesterday it got to 86 inside the grow tent and 80 inside of the house...the house increases a few degrees every time that light comes on. I need to start exhausting in the attic and pulling in the coolest air i can find. I also want to keep energy costs down and do this as affordable as possible...i have no ac and i cant exhaust anywhere except my attic due to s close neighbors...what would you do? i live in the southwest so the weather here is a mix of dry and humid but summers are 80-95.
please help, i was considering portable ac or swamp units but didnt know if they actually work since the light is constantly pumping out heat. Will the portable ac/swamp cooler be on all the time when the light is on? that energy draw must be ridiculous bc i know those things suck power...i also understand those things have hoses and stuff for exhaust aind intake please explain how to run that. Through my attic? do i use the swamp cooler and ac without a carbon filter attached to it? odor control is key if i am now pumping it outisde...before i inside my house i didint care its only 6 plants...but outside i don't want to take chances...
well now it is summer and yesterday it got to 86 inside the grow tent and 80 inside of the house...the house increases a few degrees every time that light comes on. I need to start exhausting in the attic and pulling in the coolest air i can find. I also want to keep energy costs down and do this as affordable as possible...i have no ac and i cant exhaust anywhere except my attic due to s close neighbors...what would you do? i live in the southwest so the weather here is a mix of dry and humid but summers are 80-95.
please help, i was considering portable ac or swamp units but didnt know if they actually work since the light is constantly pumping out heat. Will the portable ac/swamp cooler be on all the time when the light is on? that energy draw must be ridiculous bc i know those things suck power...i also understand those things have hoses and stuff for exhaust aind intake please explain how to run that. Through my attic? do i use the swamp cooler and ac without a carbon filter attached to it? odor control is key if i am now pumping it outisde...before i inside my house i didint care its only 6 plants...but outside i don't want to take chances...