New Grower Gorilla Glue Autos in a 4x4 tent. New grower. Advice welcomed.

[Suki]

Ok yeah, you definitely want to bring your humidity up!

 

[Suki]

Don't worry about adding a humidifier or anything for now, just watch and see what it does now that you've removed the dehumidifier. Watering the pots will also bring it up substantially. If you do end up needing to boost the humidity beyond what it evens out to naturally, don't run a humidifier in the tent, position it near one of the passive intake ports.

 

[ItzSticky]

Are you in the northern hemisphere? Regardless, lol, bringing the temp in the house down will definitely help. Hard to keep the tent <80 when the air its pulling in is that warm. Opening a window in the room may help, if its cooler than 75 outside. And tbh I can't believe I forgot to suggest it, lol, but you could also switch when your lights are on, if you run them at night when its cooler, vs during the day, it will be easier to keep the temps down.

I reside in the subtropics. I have no windows in the room. Its an isolated storage room. so sits in the middle of the house, no windows, just AC vent.
I have my lights set to 18/6. It turns off around 3pm and back on at 9pm.

 

[Suki]

Another thing to keep in mind for the future, whenever you upgrade your lights. Look for lights that you are able to mount the drivers outside of the tent. Can't remember if you said what sized tent you're in but I run a HLG 100RSpec in my 2x2 and it puts off minimal heat even with the driver mounted to the light, but it does have the ability to be mounted outside of the tent as well. My @Marshydro TSW2000 also has the ability to have the drivers externally mounted, which I should probably do to bring my temps in the 4x4 down as well but I just haven't gotten to it yet. It looks like your light has active cooling, which of course again leads to that electrical to thermal energy conversion process, and is part of why most lights on the market now have moved towards passive cooling.

 

[ItzSticky]

Another thing to try is angling your clip fans up towards the light, which will help push any hot air up and out of your exhaust. At this point you really don't need all of them pointed down, as the airflow you get from them isn't super vital until you need to keep air moving through the canopy.

I don't have enough room to move the Exhaust fan on the outside. But to the touch i don't feel like it really produces that much heat.

 

[Suki]

I reside in the subtropics. I have no windows in the room. Its an isolated storage room. so sits in the middle of the house, no windows, just AC vent.
I have my lights set to 18/6. It turns off around 3pm and back on at 9pm.

Ok, so window is a bust then lol. Do you have a time of the day when it starts cooling off inside? I know usually around 3 or 4 it starts cooling down where I am. If you were to have your lights turn on at that point and run overnight instead of through the heat of the day that may help too. Another question, where do you have your exhaust venting to? If its into the same room that could definitely contribute to the issue. My tent shares its back wall with our bathroom, and I have found that venting it around the corner and into that bathroom (with the bathroom exhaust on) helps remove some of that excess heat as well.

 

[ItzSticky]

Another thing to keep in mind for the future, whenever you upgrade your lights. Look for lights that you are able to mount the drivers outside of the tent. Can't remember if you said what sized tent you're in but I run a HLG 100RSpec in my 2x2 and it puts off minimal heat even with the driver mounted to the light, but it does have the ability to be mounted outside of the tent as well. My @Marshydro TSW2000 also has the ability to have the drivers externally mounted, which I should probably do to bring my temps in the 4x4 down as well but I just haven't gotten to it yet. It looks like your light has active cooling, which of course again leads to that electrical to thermal energy conversion process, and is part of why most lights on the market now have moved towards passive cooling.

It's a 4x4 tent. But i do believe the light is the major culprit. Definitely something I will look at changing down the road.

 

[Suki]

Eventually moving the ducting every time hubby has to poop (has to have the door closed, he's weird lol) will get to him and I will be able to convince him I ned to cut a hole into the wall or the ceiling to vent the exhaust either directly into the bathroom, or into the attic

 

[Suki]

If you're in the subtopics I would assume the natural RH in your home would be plenty to bring the tents RH up to where it needs to be. Once you're watering the pots fully that will boost it quite a bit as well, and then as your plants start bushing out and transpiring more that will also push the humidity up.

 

[ItzSticky]

Ok, so window is a bust then lol. Do you have a time of the day when it starts cooling off inside? I know usually around 3 or 4 it starts cooling down where I am. If you were to have your lights turn on at that point and run overnight instead of through the heat of the day that may help too. Another question, where do you have your exhaust venting to? If its into the same room that could definitely contribute to the issue. My tent shares its back wall with our bathroom, and I have found that venting it around the corner and into that bathroom (with the bathroom exhaust on) helps remove some of that excess heat as well.

It probably starts cooling off around 5-6pm. I have it set to be on throughout the night and overlapping to the early afternoon.
I have the exhaust venting out of the same room. That definitely sounds like it can help but I'm currently renting so I have to refrain from any hole making lol.