The Ultimate Odour Control Thread

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mrheadie

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hey guys, just read the whole tread and have only seen vaportek 4000 mentioned once with no response to him. just wondering if anybody is using one. i ordered one this morning in a rash panic impulse buy. i thought i had my odor under control with a 8" mountian air filter on my room exhaust, and a 6" scrubber in the box itself, but after walking the dog the other day i noticed the scent at my exhaust. it worked up until the last few weeks of flower, but now the diesil is over powering the filters. i'm hopeing that the vaportek will do as advertised. rezdog uses it when running the diesils and says it works along with some other mixed reviews. im giving it a try, but wanted to know if any of you guys have any feedback. i should have mine in the first part of next week and i'll let everyone know how it works for me. until then,,,,,,,, exhausting into the house and hopeing no one comes over. heres a link to the wedsite for those who havn't seen them; http://www.vaportek.com/product-line
 
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jon101010

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10 by 12 grow room 25 plants.. i have the whole perimeter of the room sprayed with spray foam.. can the smell seep threw drywall into commerical shop beside mine? carbon filter running.. first grow btw
 
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309east

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greenpower000 said:
Not sure if someone has posted this yet ( toooo many pages to read threw)
But if these work.... then we would not have to worry about much !
http://www.homedepot.com/Electrical-Light-Bulbs-Compact-Tube-Fluorescents/h_d1/N-5yc1vZ1xh9Zbmae/R-100625858/h_d2/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10051&catalogId=10053
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I'm using the 27W version x4 (in conjunction with a 90W UFO) and I can tell you there is definitely still a strong smell. It's my first grow so I have nothing to compare it to, but these things definitely don't eliminate the odor. And I've only got one plant.
 
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spandy

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Anyone have the link to the DIY page that showed how to properly disassemble your professional built carbon filter so you can just replace the carbon and put it all back together. I was going to just start drilling out the pop rivets but I figured I'd ask first but this thread is just too long to read through to risk not finding it.

So much cheaper to just buy a bag of active carbon and replace it if you already have a filter.
 
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LaudanumRx

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465 cfm blower hooked up to a carbon filter, ONA (get the gel for emergencies - the little canisters for everyday use though), and a standard household HEPA air filter in all other rooms of your house. Does a body good:).

(You don't have to run the carbon filter blower 24/7. Just when you might have visitors so maybe 7am-11pm, UNLESS you are pumping air out of your grow and into your neighborhood.)
 
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bongrippinbob

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"Anyone have the link to the DIY page that showed how to properly disassemble your professional built carbon filter so you can just replace the carbon and put it all back together. I was going to just start drilling out the pop rivets but I figured I'd ask first but this thread is just too long to read through to risk not finding it.

So much cheaper to just buy a bag of active carbon and replace it if you already have a filter."​


It is going to cost you about the same to fill your old filter with new carbon or just buy a new one. According to NGW catalog you can get 16 lbs of carbon for $72 or 35 lbs for $128. This is not the same carbon that is in the Phresh Filters, so you are going to need quite a bit of carbon. A 4" carbon filter that only has a max CFM of 200 takes 16 lbs of carbon. If you have a larger filter, it is going to take somewhere between 40 and 100 lbs of carbon. This is going to cost you $72 for the small filter which you can get for like $100 new and you know the carbon will be packed correctly.

If you are using one of the filters that takes like 80 lbs of carbon, you are going to be spending over $250. You would end up having to buy 2 bags at $128 and one at $72. That is $328 for the carbon. You can get a brand new carbon filter with 78 lbs of carbon for like $225.

I don't see how you could possibly save money filling your filter with this carbon when it costs just as much per pound for bulk carbon as it does a new filter. If saving $20 on your filter is worth the head ache of your carbon not being correctly packed, then go for it. But to anyone else thinking of doing this, I would highly suggest just buying a new filter.
 
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Jay Chonchabong

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Im looking for something to mask the smell of four plants in a grow tent, I dont really have any means of venting to the exterior. I was looking on the internet for ways to help, and decided that im giong to try a HEPA air purifier with a modified or included carbon filter. This is when I came across tihs product, I was wondering if anyone had ever used it.

http://www.peakpureair.com/hepa-air-purifier-a.htm

The website seems pretty cheap, but the product in theory seems great, I was looking at the one with the very small ozone generator attached.

What do you guys think ?
 
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bongrippinbob

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Jay Chonchabong said:
Im looking for something to mask the smell of four plants in a grow tent, I dont really have any means of venting to the exterior. I was looking on the internet for ways to help, and decided that im giong to try a HEPA air purifier with a modified or included carbon filter. This is when I came across tihs product, I was wondering if anyone had ever used it.

http://www.peakpureair.com/hepa-air-purifier-a.htm

The website seems pretty cheap, but the product in theory seems great, I was looking at the one with the very small ozone generator attached.

What do you guys think ?
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I think I would just buy a carbon filter. They are only like $100-$200 depending on the size. That filter is going to cost you more than that plus its going to cost extra electricity. If you just hook a filter up to your existing fans, you can control the odor, save on electricity, and know that the product will work.

I don't get why people spend so much money trying to figure out how to control odor. The answer is out there, it is carbon filters. They are cheap, easy to get, and the new ones barely weigh anything. People spend $50 trying this method, $30 trying this other method, another $100 trying something else, when all they had to do was spend $100 in the first place and never have to worry about it again.
 
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bongrippinbob

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GreensLife said:
Trying to figure out proper ventilation and was wondering if this blower fan would be good for an 8X6 area. Any help would be awesome thanks!

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200007224_200007224
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That fan is not made for use with ducting. You can get a nice inline fan for like $100-$150 that will work out well for you.

The area you are growing in will not really have much to do with how many cfms you need. That will be based more on the watts you are using. I could be growing in a 10'x10' area with a 250 watt light or I could be using 4x1000watt lights. With the 250watt light you would only need like 100cfm fan. But with the 4x1000watt setup you are looking at closer to 10 times that.
 
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