this is the tent setup.
Extractor fan external, scrubbing the tent.
Passive intake on the bottom front [not visible], extraction vent top back [visible in pic].
This is the new addition in the tent as of yesterday.
Air-con.
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Situation is, I'm suffering a Spanish summer with HPS lights and looking at signs of heat stress on the baby girls.
Temps in tent are 30 -32.
Ambient temps of basement were 26.
So the extraction fan was sucking in 26 air to cool 31 degree tent air.
So I bought the air-con to provide a source of cooling air.
Have had to exhaust the air-con into the basement room because there are no windows in the basement, so unless I drill a hole in an external wall, I have no way of venting the warmer air out of the grow space.
With the air-con on the basement ambient tents have risen to 30.
In tent is now cooler than outside the tent.
BUT, it now means I have had to turn the extractor fan off, so that I'm not sucking 30 degree basement air, into a tent with temps of 27.
One thought....is there any way to run the vent line off the A/C unit outside the room after it goes outside the tent? Maybe outside through a nearby window? Or though the floor to upstairs? Just somewhere to (hopefully) help it stay cooler outside and cycle the extracted hot air further before it gets pulled back in (ie...through the whole house from upstairs).
Nice looking setup, though. Hope you get the temps sorted out!!
