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lipa

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Re: Laminar Flowhood Filter [Re: bakenast]
#19053887 - 10/29/13 07:49 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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bakenast said: Save money over buying them dayton blowers and just get a inline greenhouse blower,, i use a 600 cfm valueline on my 12x24 hood and its over kill, and works perfect! and you can block part of the intake to lower fan speed through filter, or get a c.a.p controller works great too..
You know I have never found and in-line duct "FAN" that was said to be rated for building static pressure in a plenum like a Dayton "Blower". I bet they don't last very long used for this purpose.
Go with a blower. You can find them all over the place in used air handlers.
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Re: Laminar Flowhood Filter [Re: lipa]
#19054027 - 10/29/13 08:07 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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The Dayton blower I found on Ebay I feel was a reasonable price especially with the free shipping. Through Ebay, with the free shipping it should be saving me a good probably $50.
I paid $101.14 for a 24x12x6" 99.99% HEPA with free shipping, then found the Dayton Blower for $154. So if that's the correct blower I feel like I did pretty well. I wanted to keep it around $300 w/o shipping costs and it ended up under that so I'm happy
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Re: Laminar Flowhood Filter [Re: Dreamchild]
#19054048 - 10/29/13 08:11 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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I picked up a motor speed controller at a hydro shop the other day for $35 and it controls the flowhood fine. I don't need it for the flowhood, but checked it anyway. Some motors are not compatible with speed controllers.
You can probably get a blower free or nearly so at a local heat and air shop. Most have a boneyard out back with old furnaces they've removed when customers purchase new ones. Otherwise, that's not a bad price if you don't get screwed. RR
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Re: Laminar Flowhood Filter [Re: RogerRabbit]
#19054434 - 10/29/13 09:39 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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That's good to know! Hopefully I won't need one though.
The seller has a good rep and has bought or sold I think about 50,000 items so hopefully if I go that route everything goes smoothly. If I can find the time soon I'll definitely check that out cause the money it would save would be great. After I made a list of everything as far as agar, petri dish's, scalpel, alcohol lamp, etc... It starts to add up pretty quick and I'd like to have some extra supplies around just incase I mess anything up.
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Re: Laminar Flowhood Filter [Re: lipa]
#19055061 - 10/29/13 11:37 PM (10 years, 3 months ago) |
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You know I have never found and in-line duct "FAN" that was said to be rated for building static pressure in a plenum like a Dayton "Blower". I bet they don't last very long used for this purpose.
Go with a blower. You can find them all over the place in used air handlers.
ya me neither but they were close enough at rating and work perferct, for a couple years now,, but i dont use it daily. it just saved me 100$ if i remember correctly
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Re: Laminar Flowhood Filter [Re: bakenast]
#19351526 - 12/31/13 03:17 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I just wanted to update everyone with my flowhood situation. I originally ordered my filter from this site http://www.filtera-b2b.com/businessfilters/hepa.htm and had nothing but problems. I saw many different threads of people recommending them so I went ahead and tried them out. The filter was shipped a week later than I was quoted and there was no communication. I had to keep calling them to see the status and they just kept trying to stall me and giving me false information.
Once it shipped I received it in two days and it was poorly packaged and badly damaged. It wasn't even in a box, it was wrapped in cardboard and taped. All the filter medium was ripped and the aluminum separators were bent. After I emailed them pictures of the filter they said it is very typical damage. It took three and a half weeks to get a refund. I called after two weeks and had to remind them about refunding me my money. There costumer service is horrible.
I then ordered a filter from Fungi Perfecti and they were happy to answer all my questions and send me a filter. I paid $80 more for the filter from Fungi Perfecti but it's well worth it considering the service and how professional they were.
Sorry for the rant, but how poorly I was treated and how bad my experience was with http://www.filtera-b2b.com/businessfilters/hepa.htm I just wanted to share my experience. I know people have used that site many times before without problems but that was my experience. I would not recommend them to anyone unless you want to risk a 6 week wait with no communication on their part for a more than likely chance of a filter to arrive with "very typical damage."
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Re: Laminar Flowhood Filter [Re: Dreamchild]
#19356450 - 01/01/14 10:32 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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If you get the 24x12 filter, maybe i could save you some money and link you to this blower http://www.ebay.com/itm/DAYTON-PSC-Blower-2-Speed-115v-/181288826070?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a35a7f4d6
One of these I actually had in my house but decided to back out of the design and return it maybe youll get that one. (I never opened the box)
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Why did you back out of the design?
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Re: Laminar Flowhood Filter [Re: Ganzig]
#19358382 - 01/02/14 12:57 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Decided I was going to want to work with bags and get a 18x24.
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Re: Laminar Flowhood Filter [Re: Dreamchild]
#19569274 - 02/15/14 07:46 AM (10 years, 9 days ago) |
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How is the flow hood coming?
http://www.fungi.com/product-detail/product/24-x-24-x-58-micron-filter.html Will this filter work? I'm assumping (i hope) that a 24x24 would be big enough to work with bags, jars, petris, or whatever. Any idea what type of blower i would need for this? please help
Which filter did you get from fungi perfecti and how do you determine which blower to use with it?
Once i get these two things I just need a pre-filter and wood and make the box?
I'm looking for a recent flow hood build I can mimic because I would like to assemble one of these asap.
Edited by Noobiesnack (02/15/14 07:53 AM)
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Dreamchild
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It's been finished for a while now. I didn't do a write up on it though. I've used it quite a bit for a agar and grain with no contams yet! Love having it over using a SAB lol
I don't do bags when I grow but from what I've read 24x24 is good for bags cause the height. When I got my filter from them I asked which blower to use with it and they gave me an item #. If you go to there site and look at the blowers it should say in the description which blower works with what size filter.
You can use a really good furnace filter or a car air filter. On my flowhood I'm using a car air filter I had laying around.
As for wood 3/4" hardwood plywood is ideal. I didn't ever find why but I assume cause it's strength and it's less porous. I've seen pics of some members builds and it looked like they used 1/2" wood though.
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