Can HID heat be harvested to heat house????
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WeeGogs
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NO.
get air cooled shades 6 inch and a 6 inch fan making sure your light shades are totally sealed with foil tape and run fresh air from outside with your fan and through your hot lights and out in to your house and use this air to heat your house. use a second fan to take the moist smelly air through a carbon filter to outside air from the rest of the grow room.
or at least that is my theory.
use a passive intake for the grow room fan to draw air in keeping the hole at the right size to cause slight negative pressure.
but if you are planning this over a 600w lamp forget it.
most blow air heaters are around 2000w so you will need 3 or 4 600w lamps to heat your whole house.
make sure the dark period is at night when you are sleeping too or you will overheat in your bed.
you can also get something to cool your house if it gets too hot.
like a portable air conditioner which you can use to cool certain rooms.
this will be your cheap heat exchanger.
tip top toker
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How would it not be possible. Hot air is hot air.... Simply depends on what degree you are wishing to heat the house. As a complete alternative to a full blown central heating system, or simply to raise the ambient temperature a bit.
SirLancelot
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I heat my house with my exhaust after it goes through a carbon filter, saves on the Gas bill in the winter. Many growers in my area do.
I shouldn't say I heat my house because I still use a furnace but rather I use the heat to supplement my furnace and even turn vents off in rooms that are getting the heat from my lamp.
Just make sure you exhaust into a seperate room from where your growing
I shouldn't say I heat my house because I still use a furnace but rather I use the heat to supplement my furnace and even turn vents off in rooms that are getting the heat from my lamp.
Just make sure you exhaust into a seperate room from where your growing
scooby419
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That is my plan for this winter. I have it set up to exhaust the air from the lights through my dryer vent in the summer and will disconnect that in winter so I can vent into my house. That air will not be very humid at all. I also have the option to direct my room exhaust that flows though my carbon filter back into the house in the winter if I wanted. That air would be more humid, but my house gets pretty dry in the winter anyways. Blowing the grow room air into the house will keep me from needing a separate humidifier! I have a split level house, so it makes it fairly efficient to heat this way. I know I will still be using my furnace, but why not utilize the heat that you are already paying to create? I had all of this in mind when I chose the location and design of my room.
Sort of what I was thinking, but i thought about using 2 carbon filters, 1 from grow area to another room, and then through another, to the rest of the house.
Thanks, that is my idea. Lower the gas bill, while raising the electric.
RollupRick
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My exhaust when I move will be into the hollow wall cavity, my logic is fuck it, heats better in there esp during winter. Only thing I would add would be some form of trap with anti-humidity grain etc, purely to remove some moisture from it first. Moist, humid air + wood, plasterboard etc = not good.