Air Exchanger

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helpme

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My house has a built in air exchanger right in my grow room, is this sufficient for ventilation and odor control?

I am going to have cool tubes for my lights so I figured a T-bracket connecting my air exchanger and cooltubes would do the trick.
 
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Ok, no feedback.. does this mean it's a bad or good idea?

I was also thinking of adding a DYI carbon filter to the exchanger so that it doesn't exhaust my sticky icky smell :weed:
 
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I wouldn't worry about not getting responses right away. Evidently, these guys DO have other shit to do and don't sit behind the computer all day. It's nothing personal. I belong to another site that relates to MY business, and man, you make post and BINGO!!! Dude who joined last month and has 10,000 posts will be johnny on the spot with an answer. It wont be a GOOD answer, but at least you'll have one. I generally wait a bit for those who actually do what they post about to get around to answering.
 
vonrasta

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helpme said:
My house has a built in air exchanger right in my grow room, is this sufficient for ventilation and odor control?

I am going to have cool tubes for my lights so I figured a T-bracket connecting my air exchanger and cooltubes would do the trick.
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Another reason for no response is maybe the term is throwing people it is me. So I looked it up, as I am about to set up my Air Scrubber system ahead of the next flowering I'm in Veg now. I'm not a heating an air guy but ....... I have done home construction etc.

Common Air Exchanger Questions

Q Does an Air to Air Exchanger heat or cool the air? A Not really. The air exchanger uses air exhausted from your house to pretreat outside air being brought into your house. Besides the "exchange" of temperature that takes place within the exchanger, it does not heat or cool the air.Q Will the Air to Air exchanger lower my fuel bill? A NO. The air to air exchanger will increase your fuel bill. Not only does it require electricity to run the air exchanger, but the air exchanger brings outside air into your house; and this air must be brought up to temperature. It only lowers your fuel bill as compared to bringing outside air directly into your house instead of thru an exchanger.Q Can I connect the Air Exchanger to an existing central ducting system? A Yes, but there are a few negatives to this application. The speed of the air flowing thru the exchanger is critical to efficient performance, and is effected by the blower from your existing system. Also, your existing system runs the most when the outside temperatures are at their worst; this will result in your air exchange operating during the worst outside conditions.Q If the Air Exchanger doesn't heat or cool the air, what does the efficiency rating mean? A The efficiency rating refers to the effectiveness of the temperature transfer between the incoming air and the outgoing air. If the outside temperature is 20 degrees with the indoor temperature 70 degrees, this results in a 50 degree differential. If the Air Exchanger is 80 percent efficient, it will raise the temperature of the incoming air (.8 X 50) 40 degrees Therefore, fresh air at 60 degrees is entering your house instead of fresh air at 20 degrees.
Does this sound like your air exchanger ?

I have one under my house , are you growing in the basement if so that sounds correct.

My Air Exchanger has a Heppa type filter but is not set up for scrubbing for smell. You will probably want to scrub the smell prior to exhausting it into your air exchanger. See above as it alludes to issues.
 
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vonrasta said:
Another reason for no response is maybe the term is throwing people it is me. So I looked it up, as I am about to set up my Air Scrubber system ahead of the next flowering I'm in Veg now. I'm not a heating an air guy but ....... I have done home construction etc.

Common Air Exchanger Questions

Q Does an Air to Air Exchanger heat or cool the air? A Not really. The air exchanger uses air exhausted from your house to pretreat outside air being brought into your house. Besides the "exchange" of temperature that takes place within the exchanger, it does not heat or cool the air.Q Will the Air to Air exchanger lower my fuel bill? A NO. The air to air exchanger will increase your fuel bill. Not only does it require electricity to run the air exchanger, but the air exchanger brings outside air into your house; and this air must be brought up to temperature. It only lowers your fuel bill as compared to bringing outside air directly into your house instead of thru an exchanger.Q Can I connect the Air Exchanger to an existing central ducting system? A Yes, but there are a few negatives to this application. The speed of the air flowing thru the exchanger is critical to efficient performance, and is effected by the blower from your existing system. Also, your existing system runs the most when the outside temperatures are at their worst; this will result in your air exchange operating during the worst outside conditions.Q If the Air Exchanger doesn't heat or cool the air, what does the efficiency rating mean? A The efficiency rating refers to the effectiveness of the temperature transfer between the incoming air and the outgoing air. If the outside temperature is 20 degrees with the indoor temperature 70 degrees, this results in a 50 degree differential. If the Air Exchanger is 80 percent efficient, it will raise the temperature of the incoming air (.8 X 50) 40 degrees Therefore, fresh air at 60 degrees is entering your house instead of fresh air at 20 degrees.
Does this sound like your air exchanger ?

I have one under my house , are you growing in the basement if so that sounds correct.

My Air Exchanger has a Heppa type filter but is not set up for scrubbing for smell. You will probably want to scrub the smell prior to exhausting it into your air exchanger. See above as it alludes to issues.
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Ok, first and foremost you just made me :wall: with all that info haha

- Yes, the air exchanger is in the basement
- I was hoping this would help me just exchange the air in the growroom by disconnect it from the rest of the house and while it was pulling the old out I figured I'd scrub it and get the smell out at the same time.

I did not take into account the fact that it HEATS the incoming air therefore it does nothing but actually make the room HOTTER! I think my best bet is to just bypass the whole exchanger and just install a T bracket to use the existing line to exhaust air.

Is there a way to deactivate the heating function or at the very least bypass it?
 
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Well, after testing the unit it has come as a big surprise that the unit is a piece of shit and does not heat the air prior to throwing it into the house.

Good for what I want it for, bad for general use I would say.
 
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