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Hi all,
I have a questions about my 1000w hps... it gets pretty hot in the room I have it in 8ft tall x 3 ft across and width is x 6 ft. The light has 4 inch ports on it, if I want to hook up an inline fan. Should I get a 6 inch canfan with adapter to a 4 inch port? When I hook it up can I simply hook the ducting up to the 6 inch port with 4 inch adapter to the port on the fan and the 4 inch port on the light housing... then to the other side of the fans opposite port then to the outside of my garage cold air in to the fan and it would expell the hot air out the other side to outside of the house?
Sorry for all the newbie questions,
-Jason
I have a questions about my 1000w hps... it gets pretty hot in the room I have it in 8ft tall x 3 ft across and width is x 6 ft. The light has 4 inch ports on it, if I want to hook up an inline fan. Should I get a 6 inch canfan with adapter to a 4 inch port? When I hook it up can I simply hook the ducting up to the 6 inch port with 4 inch adapter to the port on the fan and the 4 inch port on the light housing... then to the other side of the fans opposite port then to the outside of my garage cold air in to the fan and it would expell the hot air out the other side to outside of the house?
Sorry for all the newbie questions,
-Jason
Your plan sounds great... A 6" will work better even with a reducer. If you get another hood someday consider stepping up to a 6" vented design OR larger... Fans are MUCH cheaper than a/c... Do your hoods have a safety glass you can use to enclose the hoods? If you can hook up a good inline fan to your duct it's going to help alot... and your plan of pulling air from outside is great... Do you do anything to control the dank odors? The only drawback of a 'closed ventilation' system like you're asking about is your fan won't pull any of the stanky dank dank smells from your grow room if you feed it from air outside. Depending on temps you may be able to pull air from within the grow room by leaving the intake side of your hood open. A closed system is usually much more effective at controlling temps but an open system will give you great fresh air exchange and pull the odors constantly out of your grow room so they can't build up in stagnant air and become a problem... Carbon filters are the way to go if you want to control odor... You can run a Carbon Filter in many ways too... You can hook up an inline fan to it and run it within the grow room to constantly cycle and scrub the air if you run a closed system or in an 'open' ventilation system you can attach the filter to the intake side of your hood and use the fan to pull air first from the filter and then through the hood to the fan and blow the warm, odor free air outside...
