odor filtraton

Yo yo..

I'm in the process of setting up my first grow 'room' and I'm curious about odor filtraton. I've got this little deionizer thing but I don't trust it.

Found these gadgets for septic tanks online.. they're bigger and look more like robot parts, I'm sure they'd be more effective.

http://www.plumbingsupply.com/vent_pipe_filters.html

Anybody tried charcoal filtration? Got any tricks of the trade to share? I'd love to hear from you.

Thanks,
J

try building a carbon filter:
Ryoko Builds a DIY Activated Carbon Filter - 30 Minutes, $30 Dollars - The Garden's Cure

cheap odor contol

Cheap odor control

(Inspired by4free)
....Do you know the Muffin fan
...the muffin fan
.... the muffin fan.

Actually, the whole setup cost about $30, and that is including the ONA.
You will need:
1. A five gallon bucket
2. A "muffin" fan, or a round fan of some sort that has the motor built into the compact frame of the fan.
3. A drill
4. A one pound container of Soil Moist, which is a water absorbing crystal. You can find it at almost all nurseries and grow shops.
5. ONA, or Odor Neutralizing Agent. YOu can get it at most grow shops or "baby" shops for new mommies.
6. A 5 gallong bucket lid, which may be optional.

(For what it's worth, another twist on this machine is I recently heard that pinesol & water in the bucket works good too.)



Get yourself a muffin fan, or a Durex brand or Holmes brand circular fan with base. They are very common at Wal-Mart and can usually be bought for less than $8 US. The reason you should get this brand of fan is because after you have removed the base, it fits perfectly into a five gallon bucket.

Step 2.
Using a flat screwdrive, pry of the nubs on the base and remove the screws.

Step 3.
Remove the fan from the base. Keep all the parts in case you might want the fan again someday.

Step 4.
Place the fan into the five gallon bucket, frontside up. If you boght the holmes brand fan pictures here it will fit VERY snugly. You don't even have to secure it in place.
(If it is smaller than the opening, then cut a hole, smaller than the diameter of the fan, into the bucket lid. Use some floral wire and secure the fan to the lid so that you can place the lid onto the bucket.)

Step 5.
Drill about 8 or 10 holes around the bucket.

Step 6.
Remove the fan/lid and put about 9 cups of water into the bucket. Then put about 1 cup of the ONA into the bucket and mix it up. Be careful, it can smell pretty strong at first.

Step 7.
Put about a cup or two of the soil moist into the bucket. Make sure that all of the liqued is absorbed. You don't have to use alot! The crystals expand to about 50 times their size.

Step 8.
Set the fan on the lowest setting and put it back on the bucket. Plug it in and put it somewhere in the corner of your grow room. I don't actually have mine in the closet itself...

You will notice a difference in about 5 minutes!
If you have a big grow room, I'd imagine you just use a bit more ONA or put the fan on a higher setting. Not only that, but ONA has a pleasant smell all by itself. It just smells *clean*, which is the best way to describe it.

The great thing is that the Soil Moist is re-useable. Once it dries out, mix up some more water/ona and pour it right in.

I'd say that that a cup of ONA, with the other parts water, lasts about 4 weeks or so.

I've been using mine now for a long time, and its perfect. When ppl come over, they always comment that our place smells "clean."
Using the soilmoist crystals REALLY makes the ONA last longer.

You may need to tweak it for your own grow room, but that's the basic design. Thanks!

Carbon filters work great, I have one on exhaust port of cabinet and Im vented into living area with no noticeable smell and 5 weeks into flowering.I also have a charcoal filter in cabinet.

Here's a way of making one you could put over any exhaust. I got the filter at Menard for under $10.00. Its 48" by 16". A couple of clamps and a few wire ties to attach it to anything that has lots of holes in it. I'm using mine at the exit from my bud dryer. Two oz of WW and two oz of Ice, no smell. VV

get a charcoal filter, they work well for me

mogie, i run into that post on average like once a day, but i couldn't find it when i looked for it. haha.

Its in Videomans posts every time. VV

You rang VV?

VictorVIcious said:

Its in Videomans posts every time. VV

Click to expand...

No not really just letting himknow where to find the muffinfan oder controller. Now you have seen the pitures of how I expanded that idea. VV

BOOYAH!!

Thankyou super growing dudes!

For those who have more money to spend there is an actual solution to odor. The Fresh Air from Ecoquest is a Photocatalytic oxidation cell along with an ozone generator and it will even make your nastiest sneakers smell fresh. Despite what was said about the product on rip off report, I tried one and it does exactly what the company says it does.

Welcome to EcoQuest

look under air purification

or Redirect

If you use ozone make sure it is ONLY located in the EXHAUST of your room. Ozone can DAMAGE plants AND people (and the environment?) and shoulds be a last resort, IMO.

Charcoal filters work very well and are refillable.

good luck

bt dt

ya man id go with the charcoal filter

charcoal filter for life

lol

chyea chyea

If the ozone can damage the plants it would have to be at a higher level than needed for the odor, just don't build your own cuz those produce nitrogen oxide which will probably effect the plant...it can poison you. You could exclude the ozone function all together and just use the RCI cell which will adequately kill the odors and not the plant. The main product is hydrogen peroxide.

I tried everything and I ended up buying a charcoal filter last night. You just can't beat the Can-Filters. I have a 390CFM inline fan running my exhaust into the CAN-FAN and the smell is finally gone.

I tried the DIY Carbon filters. No good. Tried the Odor Removal Machine, bucket from Videoman, but only had pinesol in it to start with water. No Good. Went out and got the ONA and soil moist. Pretty damn good now, but not good enough.

Now I'm running the ONA Bucket and the charcoal filter and my area smells great! The charcoal filter sort of has a charcoal smell, well, the ONA bucket gets rid of that and makes it smell "clean". Otherwise there is a noticeable "somethings going on in here" smell, that isn't weed, just isn't natural. The ONA really makes it just smell clean and nice.

I don't know but I think PCO (photocatalytic oxidation) would probable work really good. I know that when I have danks in the house that reak you can't smell it and will destroy the odors of even the strongest potpouri...even ammonia.

I was thinking about using a vinegar but photocatalytic oxidation.. of course! How did I overlook that?!

Umm does it come in a can at Wallmart?