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ac vs dehumidifier

Chefbjy yeppers, lots of slang, heard of the lovely swamp coolers..lol, not sure they have a place in cannabis cultivation, unless you are in a 0% humidity area..lol..
 
Oh yeah OJH..:)

I came to coco ass backwards than most, having run several 4'x'4 flood and drain tables in 20'x15' flower room, 40gal rez for each and all hydroton, totally automated. Way too much overhead so dialed it way down to 2 little 2'x4' tents, thinking coco is a GREAT in between (hydroton vs. soil) that I can easily manage with hand watering due to my crappy research and thinking that I would only need to water 1x daily.

Now that I have figured out I freaking CAN'T drown my coco girls and that they actually VERY much like to get fed damn near ever 4hrs (in flower, small pots, 60/40 coco/perlite, yeah I am starting to wonder why the hell I went coco. haha

Not Much room in my little tents, so thinking time to upgrade, just so I can have room to automate..lol

Oh the obstacles we will try to overcome for out love of not only the plant, but also the therapy of just cultivating our precious girls..:)
 
Well I had to get dehumidifier. The basement had gotten to 70% humidity due to it raining everyday for a week. One tent was 77%. So got a 70 liter (edit 70 pints) dehumidifier (my basement is over 2500 feet so needed a big one.) So far in an hour its back down to 51% and the tent is 55%. Gonna see how low it will go after 24 hours before i change any settings. Have the runoff going to the sump pump so it will only require periodic cleaning.
 
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It's true that decreasing temps increases RH; a weather fact. However, it's also true that A/C units reduce humidity. That's why your car's windshield defrost/defog engages the A/C air compressor.
 
Its actually bigger than that. But housing is very cheap where I live. In most other places a house that goes for 100k here would be over 500k or more.
 
I'm struggling with humidity, too, here in the Pac NW with my grow room in the garage. So far I've managed some control with merely increased air flow. Have been trying to decide between a "real" dehumidifier (one with a compressor) or A/C and whether to treat just the room or the entire garage from which I'm drawing intake air (have 130 CFM of exhaust installed). The responses above concur with my conclusions... any A/C unit in the room will be too powerful and would be unusable in winter in my environment and thus wouldn't help with humidity. Like Hycheese, I'm looking at one of the small ($110-140) dehumidifiers. Not too big because it will add some heat to the room which I'm hoping my exhaust fans will handle. I may end having to have both, at least for the summer months. Like everything else so far with this grow room in the garage, it seems to take 2 opposing devices to recreate one ideal mother-nature environment.

Hope you'll let us know how the A/C works out for you? Is your room inside your house? That seems like it would be easier??
 
Lol. The city i live in has a very low cost of living. Everything here is cheaper. But we pay for it dealing with crime and horrible politicians. I know everyone has bad politicians but we thought we had bad ones until we got the ones we have. Bad enough that we are seriously thinking about moving even farther south.
 
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