Vire said:

TranscendingLife said:

It pulls air from behind you, across your body & then up into the flowhood,

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Wrong...  for you too, sir


Watch the vid link I posted further up this thread.  It shows you exactly how it works.

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Vire said:

Link to video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg61LdngWlQ

Both the Biological Safety Cabinet in the video and the one in the PDF are Class II.  The hand drawn pics in the PDF do look a little confusing, but once ya see it in action it all makes sense.

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Vire said:

Link to video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wg61LdngWlQ

Both the Biological Safety Cabinet in the video and the one in the PDF are Class II.  The hand drawn pics in the PDF do look a little confusing, but once ya see it in action it all makes sense.

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The pdf isn't confusing at all.
Dirty air is marked by the blacked out arrows & clean air is the outlined white arrows.
You can see at 1:22-1:25, when the technician pulls out the dry ice + water, that the "smoke" gets pulled back into the unit.
That's exactly why it will not work for mycology.
Also, those units are used for bio-hazardous materials.
Not something I'll bring into my house.

You can  all you want. But, that unit will NOT work for mycology.

TranscendingLife said:

Whatever, don't take my advice, waste hundreds of dollars & a ton of your time.
If you don't want good solid advice, then I'm done.
I've told you it won't work, but if you insists, then well 

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un-known-ome said:

TranscendingLife said:

Whatever, don't take my advice, waste hundreds of dollars & a ton of your time.
If you don't want good solid advice, then I'm done.
I've told you it won't work, but if you insists, then well 

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At $200, it's not as if I'm making a huge investment, and I'd like to reiterate that I'm only considering this because of the price tag--otherwise, I wouldn't be considering it. However, it will still be a hassle to get into my home, so I'd like to have an idea of whether or not this is suitable rather than learning the hard way.

I'm not "not" taking your advice, but I'm considering what other member's are saying along with my own understanding of how this thing works. Doesn't this create a sterile work environment beneath the hood? My understanding is that it does, and if I'm right, then why would it not be appropriate for mycology? Also, in the video at 4:04, isn't that a bio safety cabinet?

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slapphappypill said:

un-known-ome said:

TranscendingLife said:

Whatever, don't take my advice, waste hundreds of dollars & a ton of your time.
If you don't want good solid advice, then I'm done.
I've told you it won't work, but if you insists, then well 

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At $200, it's not as if I'm making a huge investment, and I'd like to reiterate that I'm only considering this because of the price tag--otherwise, I wouldn't be considering it. However, it will still be a hassle to get into my home, so I'd like to have an idea of whether or not this is suitable rather than learning the hard way.

I'm not "not" taking your advice, but I'm considering what other member's are saying along with my own understanding of how this thing works. Doesn't this create a sterile work environment beneath the hood? My understanding is that it does, and if I'm right, then why would it not be appropriate for mycology? Also, in the video at 4:04, isn't that a bio safety cabinet?

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It doesn't though... It pulls contaminants past your culture and then into the filter... It filters the air AFTER it goes past your work... You want the air to be scrubbed before it hits your workspace, not after....

As TL has said along with me, this is for containment, to keep you safe while working with hazardous materials. a flowhood pushes those contams away and scrubs the air first to ensure your cultures are clean.

I'm with TL, be hardheaded if you want and waits $200, I don't care, I'm just letting you know that the other information is blatantly WRONG.

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slapphappypill said:[/i-p-
It doesn't though... It pulls contaminants past your culture and then into the filter... It filters the air AFTER it goes past your work... You want the air to be scrubbed before it hits your workspace, not after....

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Juiceh said:

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slapphappypill said:[/i-p-
It doesn't though... It pulls contaminants past your culture and then into the filter... It filters the air AFTER it goes past your work... You want the air to be scrubbed before it hits your workspace, not after....

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You might want to watch the video that shows how this thing works before you post.... :40-1:00 should make this clear. It does NOT pull contams past the work space. Its basically a vertical laminar flow hood that also has HEPA suction vents around the perimeter of the work space. HEPA filtered Air blows DOWN onto the workspace and then right in the middle it splits and goes to the suction vents on either side. Any contams coming from the outside near the operator get sucked into the side vents right under the opening in the hood.

TL, look at page 15 of the PDF again. The area that shows the short filled in black arrows DO NOT go across the work space, the PDF shows them going UNDER the workspace in the ducting under the workspace from the front suction vent indicated by the "////" that goes back to the HEPA for filtering. The long solid black lines do not indicate airflow, those are just the arrows they used to point to the work surface and the ideal workzone. As for 1:22-1:25 seeing smoke getting pulled into the unit, you must have just ate some shrooms cause that portion of the video shows nothing of the sort, you see it getting blown DOWN from the flow from above and towards the bottom suction vents. 1:30-1:45 show this to clearly be a bunk claim.

I don't know how you guys can argue this way when the video clearly shows you are incorrect. Arguing that this unit works differently than clearly shown in the video then getting butthurt about it when people say otherwise is like watching a bunch of holocaust documentaries and then saying that shit didn't happen, then throwing a fit when someone looks at you funny.

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un-known-ome said:

Wait, so is the final consensus that it may or may not be suited for mycology, but that either way, it's probably not worth the trouble and that there are better options available?

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