Hi growers, hope everyone is having a great day.
Im looking to drop the temperature of my grow tent the last few weeks of flowering. To achieve this im running a 6 inch exhaust fan, but since the temperature outside my tent is also very high trying to lower the temperature by air exchange is impossible.
So im looking into buying a portable AC Unit, i've seen that most of the growers doing this tend to put the AC unit outside the grow tent and opt for cooling the room the tent is in. The problem with this is that the room that my tent is in is too big, i would need a massive AC unit for this so i does not make much sense for me to do it this way.
My question is, has anyone here had experience with routing the cold air with a duct directly from the Ac unit to the tent? Is this possible? or is there other way im not thinking about?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated :)
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you only need to get that big room down to high 70’s low 80’s. Make sure a window unit can’t do that before you decide.
The problem is that the units you are looking at aren't very efficient. You could probably use less power by adding a mini split than you can by trying to cool the tent. 12000 btu cooling only mini split is like 400. Cheaper in price and cheaper on the bill. If you wanted you could even mount the blower directly in the tent at the top. That would be efficient lol.
It is a closed system right? If not then ac in the tent is pointless because it gets pulled right out.