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How to work out what size exhaust fan (extractor) you need for your grow area:
If you are running with hot HID grow lights you will need to change the air within the grow room once a minute for good optimum results.
- take a tape and measure (in meters) the length, width and height of your grow tent – this will give you the cubic area of the tent
- then multiply this figure by 60 (the number of minutes in an hour) which is how many times you want the area exchanged in a hour
here’s an example:
my grow tent is 1.2 M x 1.2 M x 2M
so 1.2 x 1.2 x2= 2.8 cubic meters in total
2.8 X 60 =172.8 cubic meters an hour needed
and here’s a quick approximate guide to the size of fan for what size area you are growing in
Sizes:
4″/100mm – 175m3/hour
5″/125mm – 225m3/hour
6″/150mm – 420m3/hour
8″/200mm – 750m3/hour
10″/250mm – 1000m3/hour
12″/315mm – 1300m3/hour
However! any 90º bend in the ducting means that you will need to add a 30% power increase due to resistance -
So for me with my Homebox GL120 which has a 90º bend
172m3 X 1.3=223.6m3
so in effect a 5″ extractor is ideal and funny that as its what I run with
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