help grower seeking advice

[mystic47]

i´m trying to decide if a 10000 btu air conditioner will bring down the temperatures in the room or try something bigger. The room space is 8x12x7 with 3 600w HPS lamps with cooltube, 8 plants under each lamp. Th strain is NLxBigBud. Thanks in thanks in advance for your help.

mystic47 Reviewed by mystic47 on 01-23-2007. help grower seeking advice i´m trying to decide if a 10000 btu air conditioner will bring down the temperatures in the room or try something bigger. The room space is 8x12x7 with 3 600w HPS lamps with cooltube, 8 plants under each lamp. Th strain is NLxBigBud. Thanks in thanks in advance for your help. Rating: 5

[bejay]

need to know more about your setup and if your using co2 etc what size exhuast system and how its hooked up.
an air conditioner will usually bring down the temps in a sealed room but in a well ventilated room its not going to do much.

[mystic47]

the room is sealed with a 495 cfm exhaust fan with a carbon filter extracting the room air and blowing through the cool tube, blowing all the heat of the lamp out to another room without using co2.
Thanks for the reply

[faithlessxxx]

ttt

[kindprincess]

what are your current temps?

[mystic47]

105 degrees

[kindprincess]

jesus!!! get an ac, 10,000 should be more than plenty, but get something in there quick!!! in the mean time, make a diy co2 gen to help compensate for the extreme temps.

kp

[faithlessxxx]

Yowza. Hermie alert.

[mystic47]

i´m not growing yet, i just want to make sure that i make the right choice
with the air conditioner, temperature is my only concern right now, once i bring the temperature down, i´m going to bring the clones and start to grow.

the 10,000btu will be OK or not

[bejay]

if you went the a/c route you would have to redo your lights ventilation so it wouldnt be pulling from the room and would probably need to use co2 as you would not be ventilating the room to bring in fresh air you would just be ventilating the lights only by installing intake and exhuast tubes on the cool tubes you also wouldnt need the carbon filter installed to just ventilate the lights.
if you didnt go the a/c route you might consider adding additional exhuast fans or larger fan to help reduce temps as one 495 cfm fan really is not big enough for 3 600 watt lights and the incoming air temperature from the intake will have alot to do with the temps in the grow room, per example if your pulling 95 degree air into the room its going to be to hot no matter how many fans you add.