Re: "The Beast" FryingPanFlyer gets serious!
Depending on where your room is, say its in the garage you can vent out one of the panels under your eves. Most houses have a couple sections on each side of the house to allow hot air to vent out of the garage. If you have this, then there will be 3 holes in a row cut out with screens over them. I've vented this way countless times. I don't know if I explained it right. I can take a Pict of what I'm talking about if need be. Let me know. Or if you have a "fart" fan that airs your bathroom out, check if it runs up and out the roof most do, I've tapped into these as well. Hope you get it worked out though. Just was stopping by and saw the issue had to throw my two cent in of course.
This bubba Has me babbling right now.
FPF you are a man with a million great ideas and ambitions so I don;t see this being an issue you don't have already mapped out.
Hey Butcher, thanks for the input. I don't know if you know this, but I'm an Architect, started as a carpenter 35 years ago, got my masters in Architecture 25 years ago after my body started giving out. Construction is the only thing I know how to do!
The way they vented my house was with a ridge and soffit vents. Ridge being along the very top of the house and the soffit being the area under the eaves of the roof. It's kind of a half assed way of doing it, but pretty cheap and we can get away with it around here since it's generally pretty dry.
That was my problem, this type of venting is pretty minimal, it doesn't let much air move through the attic, but apparently enough. It occurred to me when I put the 8" fresh air duct w/ 8" inline fan moving 210 cfm. Now I have no idea what 210 cfm should feel like, but when I felt the air flow it felt pretty low, I didn't think I was getting very much air through there.
That's when it occurred to me, I've got a 6" high output fan on my lights which should be sucking a lot of air out of the garage, hell it should be creating a partial vacuum with that much air being drawn out, but it wasn't. I realized that if you are putting the air into someplace with no outlet, the pressure will simply build and not let any more air in. If my attic wasn't capable of exhausting that much air I simply couldn't force any more in.
So, I just finished running the 6" duct from my lights to the side of my house and I've got a 6" vent similar to what you'd see on a fart fan, but I think they use this one for venting small range hoods. And guess what? I finished up about an hour and a half ago and the temp appears to be holding at 79! That's fine with me, a little warmer than I'd like but at this point I'm taking what I can get. It's a pretty cool day right now, believe it or not we got some snow this morning! Glad I didn't put out the tomatoes yet.
I'll have to see what happens when it warms up again. But the garage is insulated pretty well (I paid to get the insulation upgrade package) so it doesn't seem to pick up much heat during the day. I'm keeping my finger crossed but I think this just may do the trick. However, some of the bends in the flex in The Beast are pretty tight and I'm doing them with flex ducting, I feel if I'd go the the hard duct for the 90's I be in a little better shape easing the flow. One more easy step would be to add another fan, probably a 6" inline fan to boost flow.
But I really only have to worry during veg. Once I go to flower I'll run the lights during the night, probably from 9pm to 9am. It cools off pretty good at night here. I think I'll be able to stay ahead of the heat then.
Thanks for the vote of confidence Butcher!
