Tent Heater

[Bandit420]

@Bandit420 you running those CLWs? I can't remember if I saw your light but damn that's some heat I'd have no chance with that even in my basement...crisper

Yep all CLW. The small blurple SolarSystem 550s are not too bad but they do put off some decent heat. All of it's in the heat sink and it has built in fans to move it away.
But the massive Spectramax is just all heat sink and diodes with the drivers on one side inside the rails. There's no fans to cool it or anything and it gets super hot like an iron if I don't have air blowing on it. The underside with diodes isn't bad but the side rails and heat sinks could easily warm up a pot of cold coffee

 

[Max]

My lumatek zeus won’t even get to room temp in like fucking ages and by that time my humidity has gone way up,can’t turn extraction fan on as I lose the heat..with the finned heater im exchanging air every minute, minute 20secs before humidity goes up…..Bingo..winner winner chicken dinner…

 

[Bandit420]

4'x4' fixture and this is the operating temp. It don't make growing ez but if you can tame the dragon she does perform

 

[Rootsruler]

Did you say you had A/C in the room or no?

 

[Rootsruler]

Welp....been running my little heater in the tent and set it at 75* as my low temp set point and 77* as my high temp set point. Set my circulating fan to medium and I'm getting could leaf movement. So far the tent hasn't seen much fluctuation of temp with heater in there. I've been running it to see if it can keep temps constant in the tent. The app data is showing a 2* fluctuation in temp tent in the last 24 hours which is the time I have been monitoring the performance of the heater and any associated hazards from running it. So far it has worked flawlessly and upon touch the heater itself has never gotten above slightly warm.

I shut off the humidifier as I can keep 60% humidity stable from the HVAC. It also has not moved more than 1% in either direction.

I'll keep an eye on it for now and when it comes time to flip I'll reschedule the timer so that it raises temp at lights off.

 

[Stoneyluv]

Roots, are you still using this heater?

 

[Rootsruler]

Yep

 

[LJFarming]

I tried running a small 1000w ceramic heater I acquired from a fellow grower in my 4x8 veg tent last winter. I bet he was laughing at me when I opened my power bill the next month. When it’s cold as hell on my little mountain it only brought the temps up about 10F and the power bill went up almost $200.

I bought a 2x4 tent and put 2 levels in it and put it in my shop that’s heated by a wood stove for Veg ASAP.

I’m sure mine was an old technology high power consumption POS electric heater but I can cut or buy a ton of wood for $200.

Just my take !

Peace

 

[Scotty 420]

I tried running a small 1000w ceramic heater I acquired from a fellow grower in my 4x8 veg tent last winter. I bet he was laughing at me when I opened my power bill the next month. When it’s cold as hell on my little mountain it only brought the temps up about 10F and the power bill went up almost $200.

I bought a 2x4 tent and put 2 levels in it and put it in my shop that’s heated by a wood stove for Veg ASAP.

I’m sure mine was an old technology high power consumption POS electric heater but I can cut or buy a ton of wood for $200.

Just my take !

Peace

I'm pretty sure all electric heat sources are virtually the same efficiency (technically they're all 100% efficient, but efficiency isn't the same thing as cost of operation). I know regarding furnaces the only thing that really decreases cost of operation on a modern electric furnace vs one made 40 years ago is the blowers are more efficient. However the blower is such a small percentage of the total electrical output that it makes a very small overall savings. The caveat to that would probably be that because space heaters use such small heat elements that loss of efficiency from the fan may equal a greater percent of total power.