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Recommend a dehumidifier for a 4x4 tent

Tumbleweed

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I'm growing in a 4x4 tent in a large basement. The basement is around 60 degrees and I can't condition it as a lung room so I'm conditioning my 4x4 tent. I run my exhaust fan and carbon filter on the dehumidify outlet of a Inkbird RH controller. This has worked fine until now. But now that the girls are in flower and are taking 1+ gal each every 1-2 days my humidity is sitting in the 60-70% range most of the time.

Can someone recommend a dehumidifier that will run on a controller (on when the controller turns the power goes on, no digital BS to set) that will handle a 4x4 tent without taking up any more space than necessary in the tent? Inexpensive wouldn't hurt my feelings either.

Again, conditioning the entire basement with a larger unit is not an option. And while a larger exhaust fan would probably help, I want to have complete control over my tent environment, not count on the RH being low enough in the basement to fix the RH of the tent. Plus that would mean running the heater in the then constantly to make up for the volume of cold air I'd be putting through the tent.
 
This isn’t the answer you’re looking for but....you need to control the environment around your tent first and foremost. My advice would be to build a barrier or even walls, to make the space around your tent smaller so you don’t have to dehumidify your entire basement.
 
Agreed.
It'll be a challenge for a dehuey to maintain a stable rh in that small of a volume.
 
Where are you venting the humidity from the tent to? Outdoors or into the lung room?
What is the RH of the lung room? Even more specifically, the RH at floor level and at ceiling level?
Same for temp....floor and ceiling?

you can capture air from different heights of the lung room to help assist in controlling the temp in the tent. In my pics you can see I’m drawing warm air from the upper air space of the lung room.
 

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