Grow tent light leaks vs full moon outside grow?!?

What flange did you pick up. May be some benefit for me that I didnt know about.

I am actually going to see if I can engage with the AC/I engineers to talk about a redesign of the tent to get those vent openings up higher. However, I am not to confident they really care.....

There is an 8" on the top, then an 8" on opposite sides of the wall, 14" down from the top. Two more 8" the bottom, plus some 4" on the bottom and two rectangle screened vents. For my application I cannot go out the top vent. I may actually go out one of the bottom vents, just have to add a couple 90's to get down and out.

You said there's an outlet on the roof of the tent? @CES

OK, the AC Infinity CloudLab 844 finally arrived. AC/I support was helpful with the delays and provided a little discount for the troubles. Very nice. Putting the tent up took about 3 minutes tops. Very simple, sturdy, zippers zip smoothly. I haven't had a chance yet to test light penetration. Off the bat, I can say I don't like the 8" vent ingress/egress placement. If you are not going to vent out the top, then the side vents are pretty low. Top of the tent to the top of the 8" vent is 14". I want to keep the fan/filter as high as possible to allow the LED light as much vertical adjustment. I will need to 90 degree the ductwork a couple times to get it down and out. I think the ingress/egress vent should be much higher allowing a straight run out as high as possible. The front plate is nice since I also got the AC/I fan/filter/silencer with the digital display. Not sure yet how I will get all three (fan/filter/silencer) inline since the egress point is so low. The three in total add up to about 46" of product, tight fit.... I hate to drop everything that low to get a straight run out. May have to have the filter vertical somehow, then 90 elbow into the fan. Will still have to 90 out of the silencer to get down to the vent egress point. Next will be the light test, but it may take me a week or so before I can work on it again.

Oh, and a comment on the AC/I fan and Spider Farmer SF-4000 LED. WHY do they not provide about 15ft of power cord. Geez, these cords are so short. WHY.... I would happily pay another couple bucks to have a much longer power cord. I may be going to buy some raw core (same gauge) and rewiring with longer cord depending on how it is connected. I like that better than extension cords even if it voids the warranty. But again, will have to see how it is connected. I don't want to modify to heavily.

First impression... thick material, easy setup, slightly disappointed with side upper vent placement.

Well, unfortunately my delivery just got damaged according to UPS and now has to be returned to sender. Guess i will have to wait another two weeks for a new one to be shipped......

I ordered the Ac last night. Fingers crossed.

ya, both the 4x4 and 5x5 in spider and mars have those half circle side panels that can unzip. The AC does not have those side panels. I guess the tent is a disposable component in the whole setup. At <200 bucks you just chuck if for something better if the first doesn't work. Or if you have space, use it for a drying tent or something.

Mars 5' has side panels, I mean.

4x4 and 5x5 from AC look identical.

@SinnerSpread Would the 5 X 5 be an option?

Absolutely. Heck the Mars and Spider 4x4 look identical. The only think I keep looking at the AC for is I will have an AC fan and the tent has that panel you can mount it to. Sure, probably marketing BS, but it looks cool :-)

It all really comes down to personal preference, I'm sure there are many that love both tents. I just know for me, that IF I don't have enough room to peel that tent all the way back, I'm going to be crawling around in the trenches, underneath the trellis lol.. looking like GI Joe... nope, not going to do it 😅

Looking at the drawing, it depends on which port you use for vent egress. There is a port on a static panel. There is a port on a zipper door. However, even with the zipper door, you would just fold it up to get to the back.

Yeah I don't know, I have a 3x3 and one thing I did take notice, is that I didn't want to attempt a balancing act on a tent any bigger than that. Watering also becomes kind of a chore, once the scrog is in place.

I'd have to look at the diagram. Does the 3 sided cut-out interfere with any of the outlet vents?

I was just going to grab the Mars Hydro 1680D 4x4, I'm not sure if I have enough room, in my room to be peeling a tent off it's frame everytime I need to water @CES

I just pulled the install doc for the 4x4. Looks like there are no sub-panels within each side wall (which actually I liked for less light leak potential through more zippers) but you can unzip all full three sides. I didn't think about the crawling around. I am just shy of 50 so I guess I should think about that. Maybe a lazy susan with an integrated trellis support so the scrog/sog can spin with the platform.

that is an interesting idea. I am looking to get the AC Infinity 4x4. Looks like it has an 8" round port at the bottom to accommodate that idea.

Matala filter media. That is the actual product name for what I described as black meshy plastic stuff. Haha. Put the super dense stuff on the outside of an air ingress port, those ports on the bottom of a tent, with a some Velcro. Keep a lot of light out and some particles maybe. Soon as I can prove I can actually buy seeds I will be buying my setup and will try this approach.

@CES Try and run your lights starting at about 7 am. Hopefully this will stop natural light (from windows ect) from leaking into the tent via the intake vents. I would like to be clear that I am not the smartest individual 😅 but I have yet to hermie tf out of my plants, so I'm guessing I'm on the right track.

I was thinking about that. Open the vent by the wall. maybe even put some of that black meshy plastic stuff over the vent opening to allow air ingress but block some of the light. "meshy plastic stuff" is a very technical, scientific term .....lol