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Offlinewestthebest
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temperature/space heater questions
    #19216775 - 12/02/13 11:18 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

so I live in a very cold place in the winter and temps are starting to seriously drop, had to bring our heat down to 65 due to electric bills and such, however, the grow room seems to be significantly lower temp than the rest of the house (possibly because of windows and shitty insulation).  Working on getting a thermostat to tell what the actual temp is, but ever since I've brought the temps down, fruiting has slowed down seriously, and some of my pf jars aren't colonizing at all- a few appear to have the slightest spot of myc, but then just stopped there.  I have what appears to be a shitty holmes space heater that was left here, I just started running that to see if it makes a difference, but I already have an extremely dry climate and some difficulties with maintain RH, will using the space heater dry things out too much?  using a SGFC as well so I was also wondering if it would disturb air currents too much.  nothing like running a fan but there's definitely some airflow coming out...  for reference the fruiting chamber is in a walk-in closet (door propped wide open pretty much 24/7), and I currently have the space heater on the opposite side of the main room from the walk-in, not pointing at it or anything


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Re: temperature/space heater questions [Re: westthebest]
    #19217047 - 12/02/13 12:27 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

Use an oil-filled radiant heater.

It will use very little electricity and heat everything evenly without drying your air out or causing a draft.

Besides, traditional space heaters are a huge energy drain and a fire hazard.


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Re: temperature/space heater questions [Re: FrankHorrigan]
    #19218443 - 12/02/13 05:50 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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FrankHorrigan said:
Use an oil-filled radiant heater.

It will use very little electricity and heat everything evenly without drying your air out or causing a draft.

Besides, traditional space heaters are a huge energy drain and a fire hazard.



so traditional space heaters are an absolute no?


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Re: temperature/space heater questions [Re: westthebest]
    #19218533 - 12/02/13 06:07 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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FrankHorrigan said:
Use an oil-filled radiant heater.

It will use very little electricity and heat everything evenly without drying your air out or causing a draft.

Besides, traditional space heaters are a huge energy drain and a fire hazard.



:whathesaid:

I like the oil filled radiators because the oil stays warm even when the heat goes off. This makes it a thermal mass and heats the room evenly and makes it a constant heat source. Once they are up to temperature, you don't have the big swings that happen with coil and ceramic heaters


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Re: temperature/space heater questions [Re: westthebest]
    #19220043 - 12/02/13 11:06 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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westthebest said:

so traditional space heaters are an absolute no?




IMO, traditional cermanic or coil space heaters are an absolute no. A fire hazard alone is enough, but they dry the air out too.


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Re: temperature/space heater questions [Re: FrankHorrigan]
    #19220759 - 12/03/13 05:55 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

But, they work.  I like the oil filled ones too, but have some of both.  Anything which heats the air will reduce humidity, especially an electric furnace.  I should know-it's -5F outside now and we're still three weeks away from the start of winter.

Simply run a humidifier or boil a pot of water on the stove to keep the ambient humidity around 30% or so for best comfort.  A shotgun terrarium will work fine at that level.
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Re: temperature/space heater questions [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #19221668 - 12/03/13 11:29 AM (10 years, 2 months ago)

RR knows best :wink:


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Re: temperature/space heater questions [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #19222482 - 12/03/13 02:28 PM (10 years, 2 months ago)

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I should know-it's -5F outside now and we're still three weeks away from the start of winter.




:thumbup: that's what I'm talking about...  how many hours a day do you run your space heaters and humidifiers?  seems like at a point it wouldn't be worth it vs. just turning the thermostat up, if a traditional space heater is that big of an energy drain like frank said... I don't know exactly how it compares though?


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Re: temperature/space heater questions [Re: RogerRabbit]
    #27698439 - 03/17/22 03:46 AM (1 year, 11 months ago)

I have a ceramic one with a fan and my space is super dry (:mushroom2: don't like it).

Never tried oil filled ones but I see they are being recommended the most here.

Thanks for the humidifier tip.


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Re: temperature/space heater questions [Re: kryptopunk69]
    #27698457 - 03/17/22 04:36 AM (1 year, 11 months ago)

Haha.. you resurrected an 8 year old thread. Just makes me chuckle a little.


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Re: temperature/space heater questions [Re: myc_ousin_vinny]
    #27698470 - 03/17/22 04:57 AM (1 year, 11 months ago)

:death:
+1 for oil radiators though and an inkbird. Works like a charm year round!


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