I was wondering if everyone is using the cloth covers on there carbon filters. And if anyone reverses the flow thru the filter to help extend the life.
When do you decide its time to replace the filter by reduced flow or its ability to remove odor, Im legal and i love that i come in my house and smell the plants but have never noticed it outside
I have never reversed the flow, But i do wash the filter cover between grows, This grow i started with a clean filter cover but recently started noticing my temps were starting to climb slowly. ( Normally 77f but climbed to 84f ) after checking my inlet ducting to ensure the runs had minimal bends and the temp where the air is drawn from is still normal I pulled the cover off and the temps fell back to normal. So after a good wash things are good again.
It probably choked up because i have been mixing soil in the grow room and vacuuming up the mess a lot more lately its cold outside.
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Hoover thr filter ?
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@woolieback Lol i was thinking since i usually shut my tent down for a day or 2 while cleaning before i start the next maybe sticking it on the outlet and just let it blow in the tent then i can wipe it all up with bleach water. smell is not the issue here, but if i dont use it all the shit collected by the filter would be all over my house where i exhaust from
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@twisted1 I hear that buddy my grow is in a dusty place so I do the same, got the ocd when it comes to foreign bodys ect in my house, lose my sh1t if any are in my tents 😆
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@twisted1 I've noticed mine getting a lot dirtier lately with the winter months, and I'm producing more humidity and that trapping the flying dust. I don't have an answer for you, sorry. I thought that some how they could be baked or something to clean the carbon but I'm probably wrong. Mine needs cleaning now and it weighs a ton. But unlike you, I have to be very concerned about odor. I may have to think about only using when needed, but it's a pain to install and remove. Great question save some$$$.
@woolieback yeah i just thought it would be good to see how others deal with there filters, not part of the setup we think about much except for hiding the smell but I have found it to be a large factor with temp and humidity control in my tents.
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@twisted1 I do hover mine until they look really manky , and same as yourself then like warm water bleach , rinse it
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@woodi2 do you run the cover on it? have you tried to blow it out? if so did it help?
before next grow ill try to blow mine out with my leaf blower and see
When mine is dirty my humidity seems to be higher. the humidity is low here 29% so it as it gets dirty i get better humidity high 30's but the temps get warmer in the tent
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Many years ago I worked on copy machines for a living. They use activated carbon filters to clean ozone out of the process. When they would start to fail I would wash them heavily with soap and hot water then air dry. It revitalized those filters nicely so as I have one filter now that's failed and it is built so it can be opened, I'm going to remove the charcoal and boil it then rinse it to see what happens. All this indoors of course in case there is a release of terpenes in the process. I'll report back in a month to see how it went. It sounds good in theory but only a test will tell the truth..
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