@Countryboyjvd1971 I need some help with a carbon filter. Long story short
I have 2, 6 inch AC Infinity fans in my 3x3x6. Im in the attic so the more airflow the better to keep my temps down.
I need a carbon filter that will keep up with the amount of air I need to move. The filter I bought bogs my fan down to much creating a ton of positive pressure.
I was looking at the phresh 8 inch × 16 inch filter(750cfm) in hopes it would do the trick. I was planning on using a reducer to go from the 8" filter to the 6" fan. How does that sound? Do you have a better suggestion?
I would like to hear countryboy’s thoughts on this. I upsize my filters, but usually not the flange size. The filter I have here is 6x24" and rated for something like 550cfm. The fan I use it with is 6" rated at 350cfm or there about.
I saw the square type carbon filter inserts for the hepa air scrubbers. Hell I would even be down to build my own, cant be to hard to bend some sheet metal to make a “hood” that I could put big filters in.
Well I know going down from fan to filter is terrible. But I thought for a sec, what about going down from filter to fan? Might work out. Common sense tells me that the more area the filter has the more air it could move.
The foam inserts have very short life as far as being able to remove scent. One of the things that separate good from not so good is the amount of carbon used.
There has to be some sort of square type carbon filter. Like…go from your outake fan and step up to a 12x12 or 15x15 filter? Go from circular ducting out to a 15x15 square? Im trying to paint a picture lol
I have almost pulled the trigger on that 6x24 phresh filter twice. But I feel like even though the 550 is rating is higher than my fan, it will still drag it down to much. So I would rather spend almost 200 on a filter that works rather than 120 on one that still can’t keep up.
I am getting air straight from my A/C duct. My house is set to 67, so its chilly. Whenever the ac isn’t on it is pulling air out of the master bathroom. Tent stays @ 70ish all day, while the ambient temperature in the attic reaches 95ish.
Because with my attic being up in the 90s I have to move a shit ton of air haha and if I cant move a shit ton of air, the tent will get hot as hell REAL QUICK. So with my filter on, I can’t pull enough air out because it bogs down which equals less air replacement. Then my tent sitting in the 90 degree attic will go right to 90 as well.
If I could pull my tent into the house this would not be happening. But because my 7 and 4 year old are 7 and 4 years old, they get into everything. And I don’t have my mmj card yet(waiting game) so I dont want to be wide open…YET!!!
If your intake air is never above 70 and your fan is constantly running, you shouldn’t have that problem. If your intake fan is moving more air than your exhaust fan then slow or remove the intake fan.
Your not understanding haha I HAVE to pull air into my tent 24/7 and alot of it. The room my tent sets in is my attic, which is always hot and almost 90°F every day.
I can keep my tent at 70. But to do that, my intake air is ramped up big time and it has to stay that way to keep temps low. I need an outake system that can keep up with my intake side.
