Stanley Blower for Cool Tube?

[UpInVapor]

Does anyone know if you can use the Stanley Blower mod for cooling a 6" cool tube for a 400W HPS? I plan to hook the 6" duct to the intake on the blower and let it pull cool air through the tube over the light and out the box. The blower would be outside the box pulling the air and blowing it out into an adjacent space(Spare Bedroom). I am thinking about hooking up a DIY Carbon Filter to the exhaust end of the blower so it pulls air over lamp, through duct, out blower and through filter into spare room. I am just concerned that the blower is too strong to just cool the cool tube. Has anyone else done this or know a way to do it with PC Fans? Thanks,

UpInVapor Reviewed by UpInVapor on 02-26-2010. Stanley Blower for Cool Tube? Does anyone know if you can use the Stanley Blower mod for cooling a 6" cool tube for a 400W HPS? I plan to hook the 6" duct to the intake on the blower and let it pull cool air through the tube over the light and out the box. The blower would be outside the box pulling the air and blowing it out into an adjacent space(Spare Bedroom). I am thinking about hooking up a DIY Carbon Filter to the exhaust end of the blower so it pulls air over lamp, through duct, out blower and through filter into Rating: 5

[aquanaut]

Yes you can and it does push quite a bit of air around, here are some pix I found for you: all the parts are available from Lowes or HD for cheap.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/...b5c4b063cd.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3239/...4be19681df.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/...6d9b8217f1.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/...2b193f63ae.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/...45735f43c5.jpg

[UpInVapor]

Yes you can and it does push quite a bit of air around, here are some pix I found for you: all the parts are available from Lowes or HD for cheap.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/...b5c4b063cd.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3239/...4be19681df.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/...6d9b8217f1.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/...2b193f63ae.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3028/...45735f43c5.jpg

That is awesome, thanks. Picture 4 - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3051/...2b193f63ae.jpg is exactly what I was thinking. I would have a DIY carbon filter, ducting, cool tube, ducting to intake on stanley blower and then ducting from blower end out of box to send the air. Think that will work well for my space?

Edit: And for some reason it will not let me give you reputation. It only gives me the option to give myself rep??

[aquanaut]

I have no idea how reps work

[GetThisOrDie]

How loud is that thing when all the ducting is connected?

[jtsik330]

How many CFM is that fan? How many watts are the lights being cooled

[UpInVapor]

400W HPS is being cooled with about 8-12 42W CFLs in my flowering chamber which is roughly 3x3. The fan is not that loud and am not sure what the CFM are but I have heard it compared to Dayton 265 CFM blower.

[aquanaut]

I don't have that fan but read it does around mid 250's in CFM and isn't that loud. It also has 3 speeds! I've seen them at my local HD and Lowes for under 50.

These fan's should work WAYYYY better then duct booster fans.

[UpInVapor]

I would be using it on the low setting. Think that will do the trick? Also, I am trying to figure out how to use PC Fans in the flower box also for extra ventilation. I have 3 120mm 90CFM PC fans that I was going to hook up to a fan controller and use also for exhaust. I just need to figure out how to carbon filter pc fans for this. Some say they are not strong enough for filters. What if I had one fan pulling air from inside box then the filter then another fan exhausting out of box?

Or maybe two of these fans side by side running to a rectangular filter tube?

[aquanaut]

The problem with PC fan's is they don't have enough "umph" to push past carbon filters. Your going to need a inline fan, can-fan, or squirrel cage fan for a carbon filter.

PC fans and in-line duct booster fans work great for circulation, but when it comes to pushing air through filters you will need at least a stanley.