The smellll

[poker2]

Hey thanks a lot im gonna jump online n check shit out n getna carbon filter. Its def an expensive hobby ill end up spending quite a bit of money.

Thanks!

OHH YEAHH!!! quite expensive... maybe once you're on your feet it will pay for itself ? :thumbsup:.... Hopefully it pays off though :stoned::jointsmile::hippy:

[GaGrown]

Hey thanks a lot im gonna jump online n check shit out n getna carbon filter. Its def an expensive hobby ill end up spending quite a bit of money.

Thanks!

Yes you will spend alot in equipment.. But,well worth the investment. Most hobbies that are worth keepin' are money munchers..

Just think... You have the worst issue of growing at bay with the carbon filter.NO SMELL.:thumbsup: Then who's gonna know.You could use yours as a scrubber to keep from screwing yourself outta ya deposit. Like cutting holes and not fixin' them. Bye Bye Deposit..

[Smkngood420]

I was just reading about a Activated carbon filter/scrubber carbon cannon and i have no idea at all wht any of it means n i think itd be good to know what it means

[bigsby]

I would rather have all that mess trapped in a neat filter that I can simply throw away and replace when it has reached its capacity.

You raise an issue that has been bouncing around my mind. How do you dispose of an old carbon filter? You can't just chuck it in the recycling bin, now can you... Mine is rate to last for 3 years at full CFM and as I'm using at about 2/3 the rated CFM I expect to get well more than 3 years but then what? It's frikkin' huge. I guess I'll be looking for an unattended dumpster when the time comes...

Now if you want to spend a LOT of money, look into the inline ionizers that use very high voltages and are designed to work in an active air duct system. They probably work pretty good, and for the price they charge for them, they damn well better.

My buddy has a 10" inline ozonator and the damn thing works a charm. There is no particle buildup, or he hasn't complained of any. My guess is the fan blows it 99.9% of it out of the vent. The problem with Ozone is that it is toxic. You have to vent externally. Oh and you have to replace the lights every 18 months or so which has costs too.

[bigsby]

I was just reading about a Activated carbon filter/scrubber carbon cannon and i have no idea at all wht any of it means n i think itd be good to know what it means

You might need to read then... see the link in my signature about fans. There is a bit about filters in there. It's pretty simple. The fan pulls (or pushes in some cases) the air through the filter which removes the organic material. Hence it scrubs the air before exiting the grow area. You vent the room and eliminate the odor in one shot.

[Smkngood420]

Alrite ill check it out thanks

[Smkngood420]

Would i have to vent the smell out or would it just be taken out of the air completely?

[Smkngood420]

Or does the air just get sucked in and filtered out and then not smell anymore making the room not smell?

[bigsby]

You are over engineering this thing...

You have a room. In that room you have some stinky plants. You cut a passive vent in the bottom of your room (a hole) that lets fresh air in. Separately you have a filter attached to a fan attached to a duct which leads out of the room (through a separate hole near the ceiling). The fan pulls the air through the filter and then expels it out of the room via the duct. The filter cleans the air so that the air exiting the duct (outside of your room) is now odor free. Fresh air is drawn in through the hole near the floor due to negative pressure created by the fan. Here, I can diagram it if needed...

Filter > fan > duct out of hole near ceiling > filtered, odor-free air exits room

Room with odor
Room with odor
Room with odor

Hole near the floor > fresh air enters room

[emilya]

Would i have to vent the smell out or would it just be taken out of the air completely?

I vent my 2 tents into a closet in the same room. That closet has a vent that goes to an outer porch area, but no active ventilation. The fan is also in there to reduce noise. Total house damage was 1 hole for a 4" Y in the closet door. The filter is at the other end of the fan at the very end of this system, sitting in the closet.

If I open the tent flaps for 30 min, the smell is noticeable in the bedroom and if I kept it open, it would quickly go throughout the house. With the air system closed however and all the expelled air from my tents going through that filter in the closet, there is no smell and no noise. For me it is a perfect solution. When it stops working in a year or so, I will toss the filter with its 16 LBS of activated charcoal in the local grocery store dumpster on my way to picking up a new one.

So no, you don't necessarily have to vent to the outside with it, but keep in mind too that neither you nor the plants want to have the same old recirculated air over and over again. You have to get fresh air into that system somehow, and that means that somewhere air has to be getting out too. In the summer time for me this will be much easier to do since an air conditioner will be bringing the fresh air in, but for now it is more of a challenge. Just as I need to bring water to my grow area, I also open a door or a window now and then to allow new air inside. Its not hard once you have the proper tools in place to deal with the worst part... that smell.

Good luck!

Emmie