!NEED Ventilation help!

[kaliking]

Hey guys,

 

I am hoping you can help me out. I need to start ventilating a room I have going, I never had to do any serious ventilation so this is new to me.

I need a carbon filter and exhaust fan, probably intake to.

I have a area the size of 5x5x8 feet, thats 200 cf.

What I have figured is I need a fan 95 cfm for exhaust and a 2600 can filter.

Where do I put the filter and blower?

 

I Have a dual Hid light with an exhaut outlet (it came with a little fan inside-like a large computer fan).

Where I used to live it worked fine (exepct the smell).

So can I connect it to the light,

Should I find a way to suck from 2 areas meaning the light and the room. OR will I suck enough though the light housing to handle this?

Also were do I connect the filter and fan? Directly to eachother in the room, or can I mount the filter in the attic, possibly fan on ceiling?

I Have an A.C. vent blowing in the area, and 1 outside it. Its a room in a room.

While I need other intake besides this.

And also can I split the outtake of the exhaust after filtrattion, and recirculate half and vent the other through a dryer vent??

 

Thanks for all the help

I am looking at a Can filter 2600 and a 4" 95 cfm Active Air. Whats quiter can, centrifugual or whatever else there is!

 

Please tell me what you reccomend.

Thanks

Edited April 10, 2009 by kaliking

[kaliking]

So from what I have read, I should suck through the can filter and blow out the lights, to let the hot air escape with the filtered air.

I do not have cool tubes, but I have a hood I can vent from, If I make it air tight it should work, other then the fact that it is square/ triangle shaped not perfect for air flow.

 

So I am trying to escape IR, I want to split the hot exhaust between a dryer vent and Either vent in my garage, or recirculate it through the house.

 

Any ideas would help!! The garage is on the complete other side of the house and the vent is halfway there but it vents at the ground level not the roof!

 

Anything would help.

Should I vent in the garage, it is partially insulated. I am just trying to escape hot spots in the house, so I thought recirculating it in another area of the house would work to (other then Ac running more).

 

PLEASE HELp!!

[nitram]

Hi kaliking,

 

Your there and can see the lay-out

 

One comment I would make is that you say your going to use a carbon filter (cf). If you use a decent cf that would mean that you can vent to any area without any inconvenience of odor. Heat may be the issue but if this 'exhausted air is to cool a little I can't see any limitations.

Nittty.

[kaliking]

YEah I defenitly do not want to have odor in my house or outside. I am also trying to hide any extreme heat, thats why I am venting the lights, its really not to hot in the room but the light emits alot of heat. I figured if it was clean I could just pump it into the house on the other side, or in the garage. They use IR here in the states and im am just trying to maintain an even tempature throughout the house.

I read up on it and I defenitly want the CF on the suction side, make sense (no high heat drawn through the CF, and blow out the hot air with the filtered air, no smell!.) CF are pretty cheap in the states, I can get a 2600 Can Filter for $48 Us. $100 for a really big one.

Probab gonna do a room in a room too.

[weedrocket]

if your going to using a carbon filter you will need to use a centrifugal can fan

your standard inline fan wont have enough pull/push and will most likely strain the fan motor and burn it out over time

also be aware that you'll need to change/recharge your filter approx every 12mths depending on a few factors - humidity strain scent, for US$48 I'd just replace it

 

centrifugal can fan

http://www.hydroasis.com/hy/images/canfans3.jpg

 

inline fan

http://www.nehydro.net/images/ductfan.jpg