Cooling grow tent

5by5 grow tent 6 inch AC infinity inline venting into 8 inch ac infinity inline fan with filter on the floor currently in 3rd week of flower and my temperatures reach 85 degrees if I open a window temperature drops to 83 i read in the forums about adding a window fan my problem is my window

It rolls open and faces my neighbors window

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Could you vent the exhaust into the attic? I have windows that aren’t normal either so couldn’t vent outside. Also, shortening the ducting and reducing bends can help some too efficiency wise.

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It’s a condo I don’t have a attic

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85F isn’t that bad, but to the point where you are pushing your luck. Getting as much airflow as you can is your best bet. Bring fresh air in near the bottom and exhaust hot air out the top.

Another option would be to locate the driver for your light outside of the tent.

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Hmm. You might be able to build a makeshift thing to vent out the window using maybe foam board. Kind of like how your furnace has that insulated box area. Drawing a blank on what it’s called. Then you can have that window open but not just wasting energy trying to vent out it. You could draw in I suppose but then you have to deal with humidity and temps not always being steady.

There is always the portable AC option but then you still need a way to vent the heat from that.

Trying to find an example image but this is all I could find. Something like this but not flush against the window. But box in the area of the window.


Not my text

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I’m going relocate the driver outside the tent night time temperature drops to 83 with the window cracked open

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Ok, found something called a Casement Window Seal you can get for those types of windows, and their vertical variants like I have in my house.

So this may be an option. But will not be insulated.

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80 - 85 F is perfect.

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My tents hit 87 degrees and often Grow Bro, keep the air circulating and exhausting and they’ll be fine :love_you_gesture:.

My current flower tent is 84.7

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Thanks for the advice it helps my understanding over a certain temperature you lose terpene profile

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I would worry on temps 90 and above for several days. The drying and curing process are as equally important for preserving terpenes. Keep the air flowing Growmie :love_you_gesture:

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Is there some where specific I should place the driver once I remove it from the tent

There should be good air circulation around it, like any other electrical or electronic device. The air circulation is to keep the driver cool so that it doesn’t fail prematurely.

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Addition of a silica product such as Silica Blast helps plants withstand non optimal temps. Before I just went all out on freezing my lungroom i hovered mid to high 80’s all the time. After the lungroom fix tents sit 78-80 lights on…68 lights off where I keep the room. Mid 80’s is a perfectly growable temp. 900w of lighting here 5x5.

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I use rhino skin from advanced nutrients

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If your window faces a neighbor’s window, make sure they can’t see the tent or ducting in the room. Some nosy neighbors have reported people for things after they looked into their neighbors windows. I don’t know what your neighbor is like but try not to let things be too visible in your room. And make sure you have a carbon filter on the fan because you don’t want the neighbor smelling the plants.

@OGIncognito can i get a little advice on how i. Should deal with this condensation problem on the window


before mold grows

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Can you open that window a smidge at the bottom??:love_you_gesture:

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Ii just found this article seems to be the simplest and cheapest way to go