Temps Pretty High, Need Vent Help

HardCorps420

Active Member
Hey all, its your favorite noob back with some questions and looking for some answers. Ok, heres the deal, I have a closet that I've recently converted into a grow room and it measures 3x3x6 (approx). I've been running a few test runs before I actually plant and I've noticed I'm having some temp problems.

Basically what I've done is place 8 cfls (5 14w 6500k and 3 23w 2700k) in the room and placed a thermometer underneath them. Now with all the lights on I'm running at close to 90F. And thats with only half my lights because I still have 8 more I plan on adding come flower time.

Now I've noticed that when I open the door it goes down to around 86F which is ok but im not too sure i want the door opened all the time due to the fact of light leaks, security, and odor. I mean I COULD do that but I'm trying to stay away from it. Not to mention wtf will i do when i add the rest of the lights. Another thing I did was got high and decided to cut a hole in the closet wall that measures L12"xH6" (don't ask why). I think I was planning on getting a fan and mounting it to the hole in the wall but I'm really low on cash and cant afford much more if anything at all.

What I'm looking for is an easy cheap way to solve my temp problems before flower time cause I think I can deal with the door open til then. Would pc fans work? cause i have a shit ton laying around here.

Basically I think my mind is just going crazy and I need to step back and look at wtf I'm doing, but I just want to get this grow started dammit!

As always +rep will be gladly handed to those who offer their help.

:peace:out
 

cruzer101

Well-Known Member
Well, Not to worry,
I get stoned and cut holes in things all the time. Hell, sometimes I even find a use for the hole.

OK I been growing in cabinets for a while now and I use case fans along with others.
So, ya ant got much cash but you got a shitload of computer fans. Sounds to me all you need is a couple power supplies and it should work with floros.

Ya know, you could go to home depot and get a duct booster fan for about $35 that would push more than all these little fans together but no cash then start tieing the fans together make a wall of them. make two arrays and point one in and one out.

Most 12v power supplies will turn your fans, find old cell phone shit. that worked for me. Get one then find the wires attached to the fan, splice them together. if the fan dont turn switch the wires. it wont hurt the fan.

Oh, and running your lights at night instead of day will cool the area at least 5°

Good luck man, you can check out my cab journals for ideas, link in the sig.
 

smallclosetgrowr

Well-Known Member
yeah try moving your lights so they are on thruout the night to make the most of the coldest part of the day , and also u can allways screw 1 of your doors off the hinges and put on a substitute! goto your local hardware store and pick up some plywood / falsewood and just cut 2 holes in for your intake and outtake fans. i did this and it costed my $30 for my fan and $12 for the wood and screws.. if u need help pm me
 

HardCorps420

Active Member
Thank you all for the help, I'll make sure i get that rep handed out ;)

Now on to business, I'm a paranoid stoner so i really don't want my lights on at night seeing as i live in a pretty bad neighborhood (busts all the time), so i plan on running my veg state for 18/6 and have them off during most the night. Now what i thought of doing is installing an ac unit into my window and trying to route some of that air into the closet via some duct work. For instance i would tape a duct onto half the ac unit so that some of it would route into my room, then just have a bunch of pc fans be taking the air out of the room. maybe i could even put a booster fan in the duct as to pull more ac through. Does that make sense? would that even work? the shitty part is i cut the hole on the bottom, which is good for intake but not for exhaust lol, so now i have to cut another hole in the top, which requires me taking down all my room :wall:

so basically i need to relax and think shit through, perhaps not get stoned while doing this (although some of my best ideas come when im high right? :p )

Any more thoguhts or ideas are always welcome.

:peace:Out
 
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