Quick questions here, ladies n gents.
The hood I have is a Hydrofarm Non-Aircooled hood. It does have ventilations slits in it though, at two spots. I was wondering if I were to afix PC Case Fans to them, and splice the wires onto AC adapters, if this would draw some of the heat away from the light? My space is not large enough to consider an air-cooled hood, and my temperatures are running in the mid 80's, a little too warm. Short of adding another centrifugal fan for an intake, instead of using my passive intake, I don't see that temperature dropping, even by adding a couple small oscillating fans in the closet. I'm assuming that, as MJ grows in various climates and temperatures, my mid-80's should be okay, yes?
Also, upon inspecting the hood, I noticed it says to use 400w MH only. Is it going to hurt anything if I put an HPS in there? I was under the impression that I was using an HPS bulb. However, after looking at pictures, I believe that bulb that's in it is a MH bulb. It's bulbous; not cylindrical like the HPS bulbs that I've seen on google. I'll be purchasing an HPS bulb if putting it in this hood isn't going to mess up the ballast.
-nasty
The hood I have is a Hydrofarm Non-Aircooled hood. It does have ventilations slits in it though, at two spots. I was wondering if I were to afix PC Case Fans to them, and splice the wires onto AC adapters, if this would draw some of the heat away from the light? My space is not large enough to consider an air-cooled hood, and my temperatures are running in the mid 80's, a little too warm. Short of adding another centrifugal fan for an intake, instead of using my passive intake, I don't see that temperature dropping, even by adding a couple small oscillating fans in the closet. I'm assuming that, as MJ grows in various climates and temperatures, my mid-80's should be okay, yes?
Also, upon inspecting the hood, I noticed it says to use 400w MH only. Is it going to hurt anything if I put an HPS in there? I was under the impression that I was using an HPS bulb. However, after looking at pictures, I believe that bulb that's in it is a MH bulb. It's bulbous; not cylindrical like the HPS bulbs that I've seen on google. I'll be purchasing an HPS bulb if putting it in this hood isn't going to mess up the ballast.
-nasty