Alistair
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Hey everybody,
I need a bit of help here. I have a small closet (3' x 4', 12 sq. ft.). Because I rent and don't own, I can't make drastic changes to my apartment such as drilling holes and what not in the closet wall. For that reason my ventilation is simple; open the door, and keep the 2 7" fans going. I've placed one fan on the floor in the doorway blowing into the closet across the tops of seedlings (coming along fairly nicely, btw). This fan is not oscillating. The other fan is sitting on a box about 2 feet off the floor. This fan is against the back wall ,opposite the doorway and facing it. It is oscillating in an effort to blow hot air out the door. As I said, it is against the back wall, which is about three feet from the doorway.
This seems to be ok at times, but at other times it doesn't work well. Perhaps I could set it up differently, using the same fans? Any suggestions?
The closet has a tendency to be hot. I use a 400 watt mh lamp. I think part of the problem is that even if the air gets blown out of the closet it tends to go in the wrong direction. Once outside the closet it needs to be blown away and into another cooler room and then out the window. In other words, the room that the closet is in stays warm most of the time, while the room adjacent is much cooler. So, I need to blow the air out of that room and into the cooler room. Opening a window in the room where the closet is, isn't an option at this moment.
Any suggestions?,
Alistair
I need a bit of help here. I have a small closet (3' x 4', 12 sq. ft.). Because I rent and don't own, I can't make drastic changes to my apartment such as drilling holes and what not in the closet wall. For that reason my ventilation is simple; open the door, and keep the 2 7" fans going. I've placed one fan on the floor in the doorway blowing into the closet across the tops of seedlings (coming along fairly nicely, btw). This fan is not oscillating. The other fan is sitting on a box about 2 feet off the floor. This fan is against the back wall ,opposite the doorway and facing it. It is oscillating in an effort to blow hot air out the door. As I said, it is against the back wall, which is about three feet from the doorway.
This seems to be ok at times, but at other times it doesn't work well. Perhaps I could set it up differently, using the same fans? Any suggestions?
The closet has a tendency to be hot. I use a 400 watt mh lamp. I think part of the problem is that even if the air gets blown out of the closet it tends to go in the wrong direction. Once outside the closet it needs to be blown away and into another cooler room and then out the window. In other words, the room that the closet is in stays warm most of the time, while the room adjacent is much cooler. So, I need to blow the air out of that room and into the cooler room. Opening a window in the room where the closet is, isn't an option at this moment.
Any suggestions?,
Alistair