Home | Community | Message Board



Please support our sponsors.


Welcome to the Growery Message Board! You are experiencing a small sample of what the site has to offer. Please login or register to post messages and view our exclusive members-only content. You'll gain access to additional forums, file attachments, board customizations, encrypted private messages, and much more!

Shop: North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds

Jump to first unread post Pages: 1
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
Offlinepheed
Stranger

Registered: 07/10/10
Posts: 23
Last seen: 7 years, 1 month
Is my space too hot for HPS???
    #497769 - 11/13/10 03:30 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

I'm getting ready to set up a DR60 Secret Jardin grow tent (2' x 2' x 5'). The closet it will be in can reach 82 degrees F on a sunny afternoon, like it is today, in the middle of November! Most days in the winter, it will probably be around 76 degrees.

Are these conditions too warm for a 250W HPS with a cooltube, venting out of the closet into the room? I was thinking of running the light at night to help with the heat.

The other option I was considering is 10 42W CFL's. Wouldn't ten of those generate a good amount of heat too, though?

Thanks for any advice!

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleGod
Yahweh

Registered: 09/26/08
Posts: 434
Re: Is my space too hot for HPS??? [Re: pheed]
    #497781 - 11/13/10 04:24 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

You say you can exhaust a cool tube out of the closet and into the room.  Can you also find a way to bring air into the closet from the room?  As near to the floor and as far from the exhaust as possible.

If you can do this, then what is the temperature of the room?  That will determine if you can run an HPS.

And yes, 10 42W CFLs will generate a shitload of heat as well.  HPS is actually a better bang for your buck as far as lumen output:heat ratio.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Offlinepheed
Stranger

Registered: 07/10/10
Posts: 23
Last seen: 7 years, 1 month
Re: Is my space too hot for HPS??? [Re: God]
    #497790 - 11/13/10 04:54 PM (13 years, 4 months ago)

Well, the closet has sliding doors, and I was thinking of leaving those open, and running the lights at night to avoid the temp increase in the afternoon. At night the room (and the closet) would probably be closer to 72-74 degrees.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
InvisibleGod
Yahweh

Registered: 09/26/08
Posts: 434
Re: Is my space too hot for HPS??? [Re: pheed]
    #497868 - 11/14/10 12:31 AM (13 years, 4 months ago)

Sounds like you could pull it off to me.  I run a 600W HPS and a 100W MH in the same closet, and my ambient is probably 72-76F.

Extras: Filter Print Post Top
Jump to top Pages: 1

Shop: North Spore North Spore Mushroom Grow Kits & Cultivation Supplies   Original Sensible Seeds Bulk Cannabis Seeds


Similar ThreadsPosterViewsRepliesLast post
* Impossible to grow here? Best way to utilize the space? pftek 1,217 5 10/25/09 06:36 PM
by Magash
* 1000 watt HPS dan258 5,651 5 08/14/10 12:02 PM
by dan258
* walk-in-closet power t0ad 3,875 13 10/04/08 07:37 AM
by t0ad
* is 400 watts too much for the space i am using? yellownotepad 2,724 9 07/13/08 04:33 PM
by SRH
* LED VS HPS?????? SalviaNshrooms9090 5,988 9 07/10/10 02:47 AM
by fungi
* HPS LIGHT: 250 watt or 400 watt???
( 1 2 all )
kickin-two-hundo 16,884 21 05/18/10 10:23 AM
by TomCollins
* a flowering closet, LOTS of good ??? plz help! icanfeeltherain 2,564 4 03/29/09 11:21 PM
by Mr HugeBlunts
* Closet grow recommendations? (UPDATE WITH PICS)
( 1 2 all )
Dr. Awesome 15,644 35 04/05/09 04:22 PM
by Dr. Awesome

Extra information
You cannot start new topics / You cannot reply to topics
HTML is disabled / BBCode is enabled
Moderator: FurrowedBrow, Magash, Data, Dr. Siekadellyk, phychotron
1,849 topic views. 0 members, 173 guests and 104 web crawlers are browsing this forum.
[ Show Images Only | Sort by Score | Print Topic ]
Search this thread:

Please support our sponsors.

Copyright 1997-2024 Mind Media. Some rights reserved.

Generated in 0.023 seconds spending 0.008 seconds on 14 queries.