I just can’t believe I didn’t do this sooner. I’m like looking at my electric and it’s atleast 500 a month… in the winter months I’m like I have to be doing something wrong. My apartment is gas heated. This system I came up with is legit. When my lights in my flower tent would come on the ac would kick on tor atleast 45 min and in the winter time. Now that I’m using the window fan with my intake system it takes 10-15 min before the window fan shuts off, which makes sense cause I’m in Brooklyn and it’s 30 degrees outside. Witb the splitter I don’t have to keep the window fan on 24/7 without having to compromise on my intake.
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I remember looking at my ac and seeing the lowest it would go is 60 degrees and thinking to myself…” dude it’s 30 outside “, all part of the journey I’m glad I got this figured out. Hopefully other people can replicate what I did or something to help keep cost down in the winter months. Ac is going away for the winter.
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Its weird you need to bring in fresh air like that. In winter time i let my exhaust recirculate into the lung room instead of outside. I live in ny as well but on the western side and just cannot understand ac or a window fan in the winter. Wouldnt it be more economical to use that extra heat for your house by dialing back the gas heat then?. Every1 situation is different i guess.
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Me too,
Multiple revisions in hardware locations, confirmed ehausting tents will suck air from input somewhere (no tubing required). Learned open window transfers more air volume than tubes attached.
Exhausted air sent to filter and re-circulated into lungroom. Motors tent contained for noise reduction.
Mixed with open window air., temps control fans for exhaust to filter, extra input, extra exhaust to attic, spare. Summer 23 window AC with fan input/exhaust capability, after Disney.
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Cool, dry winter air may be just what you need. You’re fighting high temps and humidity so it seems like it could work well for you. I’ve never tried it. My opinion of stuff like that is if it makes sense then give it a try. This makes sense to me. Only issue may be with getting too cold when it’s the dead of winter if it ever comes. I’m still running my AC mid December. Think I’ve switched the heat on twice this year.
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I run an 800 watt light so heat is not my issue ever.
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Hell yeah brother, love it!
I thought about that @Outlaw. I may get an electric heater for those winter days that get really cold, so far though the fan with the lights on is just perfect. It takes 2 min of that fan being on for the tent to cool down. If you’re running an ac in December and a window fan could be an option if consider giving it a try with some 6” duct and a 30$ can/inline fan.
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I just ran across this thread. I use window fan in winter here in missouri. How is your irrigation set up?
oil contained radient heater (no red coils showing from electric), advised.
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and a window is available, open the window, the cold air will find your tent or lng room.
Good GrowinTY
I understand that, but bringin in cold outside air in ny is wasted energy. Expell heat in different room. But hey if it works, screw it keep going.
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Not as good as I would like it to be but it works. I bought a rain point system on Amazon. I’m gonna get something else though . Probably just a pump and manifold.
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I’m having issues with my system. So my inkbird controller will only turn the fan off once it reaches temps and brings the heat down to 75. However when the temps go above 75 it will not turn the fan on like it did the ac, I have to manually do it. Anyone have a solution. This kinda sucks that this happened in the end !
I just tagged you in a thread i started about how i set up my irrigation, maybe it will be helpful
Awesome, I absolutely needed something like that. I’ll take a look and replicate! Thanks @Allinherhead
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Glad to help
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If the original setup wasn’t flowing enough, then look for efficiency problems in the original setup.
I need 5x my exhaust port area in open intake area before I hit max CFM at max exhaust fan rpm.
You might even be able to outflow your ‘inline intake fan - exhaust fan’ setup with one exhaust fan & enough intake area & no intake fan, & you can definitely outflow your inline fan setup by a lot by running them both in parallel as exhaust fans & with enough intake area. Fans in line are generally inefficient.
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