iPower 10 Inch 862 CFM Inline Duct Ventilation Fan HVAC Exhaust Blower for Grow Tent, Grounded Power Cord

Bought this as an upgrade to the exhaust fan on a Chinese K-40 Laser Engraver. Big step up from the cheesy fan they include with those things. It moves plenty of air to keep my workshop fume free. In fact, you have to be careful when cutting small lightweight pieces like cardboard. The first time I tried, as soon as the piece was cut free, it would get sucked out the exhaust and shot outside! I may add a speed controller when cutting those types of material. It's reasonably quiet during operation. I barely notice it, and it's hard to even hear over the top of other shop noises. It looks pretty durable, but I only run it a few hours a week so I can't judge it's long term reliability yet. The case is all metal construction and I think the impeller is too. Comes with an attached mounting plate so you can bolt it down. Clearance around the housing can be a little tricky though, so don't expect to just run a few drywall screws through to hold it down. If you're looking for a laser exhaust, I highly recommend this one. Update 10/2020: 2 1/2 years later and still going strong. There is a pretty thick film of soot built up inside of it, but so far it hasn't skipped a beat. I mostly cut 1/8 plywood, so it's generally just wood smoke that gets pulled through. I have heard that if you run certain types of plastic the fumes can degrade exhaust fans, but I don't do enough of it to be able to judge. No regrets on my purchase.

I bought this for my 32x32x62 Grow Tent and I couldn't be happier. I was relying on 3 crappy $6 6 inch Lorell fans to do the ventilating and create a breeze on my marijuana plants. This wasn't working well, I cheaped out on fans because I was already investing over $400 at once to get this grow started. I bought this fan a month later when the R/W/B Spectrum settings needed to be set to 100%/100%/100%, this brightness increase came with an overall temperature increase. My tent was reaching 82 degrees fahrenheit and with humidity levels of 40%-50% the plants were suffering from heat stress. This was in an air conditioned room set to 64 degrees, and still it was reaching those temps. I was uncomfortable due to the cold, and my plants were still uncomfortable from the heat. Now that I have this inline fan, I stuck some ducting down to the lamp's heatsinks to suck heat directly from the light, while the majority of the ducting is still sucking air from the tent and drawing in a nice breeze through the screens on the bottom of the tent. My temps never go higher than 75 now, averaging 72, and thats with my room now at 68 degrees. I used 2 of those 3 fans to blow directly on my 2 plants as well, I'd say my setup is pretty ideal, only missing a filter now and speed control now. I'm comfortable and so are my plants this inline fan was a win win. For those who know nothing about inline fans such as myself. If you're wondering how this fan type compares to your basic lorell 6 inch fan its pretty much incomparable. The performance of this fan is around 50x greater than the ones I was using. They do not work the same way either. inline fans create suction or air pressure, while your basic fan creates air flow. This inline fan also helps to suck out light debris that may get into the tent keeping the grow cleaner. For example small hairs from your pet, if there is enough suction inside the tent it will be launched out instead of settling on the plant or inside the tent. Or those small flying bugs that want to eat your plants. I do not use a speed controller, I have it running 100% all the time. I'm going to buy one and have it set to 85% if that's possible.

I seriously don't doubt the CFM ratings for this whatsoever. It's a bit loud on high, but this is easy to fix (it's completely dependent on the ducting. No sound comes through the casing. And it's definitely a solid machine. YES it leaks a bit of air around the sheet metal connection between the front and the back, but it's pretty sturdy (and heavy). TBH though, I'm amazed my unit still works and barely any vibration... I've dropped it or it came loose and fell 5 feet and rolled another 3 feet more than once. Mine is 6" and is just awkward to hold and mount. And I put a single layer of gorilla tape or clear duct tape (not packing tape!) Around the 2 flanges. As they're only about an inch long.but semi rigid aluminum tube stays fine with a clamp. And definitely don't use anything less smooth like flexible ducting tube on the intake (see below). 12" and the blower sounded like it was really going, but it was barely moving 1/3 of what it's rated... The mount is nothing to write home about and it's good enough to mount on bungee cords hanging from a 12" L-Bracket right to a stud (it definitely vibrates on different speeds. (Get a $5 controller from Amazon. My first one wouldn't get hot running a shop vac and the second was a 4-pack for $11). And don't go below 1/2 speed (by airflow). BTW I did my research on this type of blower and you're not supposed to slow it down with basically a glorified light dimmer, but the intake restriction is how you would tweak the volume under varying loads, etc. If you block the output, it will ramp up the power to try and compensate... But very slight changes to the input really change the output while it remains at more or less constant speed. So put a grille obviously and you want something for a muffler (1 or 2 sizes larger tubing with coarse wire mesh in the correct diameter and polyester pillow fill between the rigid outside and the mesh tube, so I did 7" with a 1/2" mesh and 10 or 12" (or 2 home depot buckets long, but one might do it. Look at commercial duct silencers online for restaurants, etc and you'll get an idea what's needed physically for components. HTH

Works great, and seems to have a very sturdy, solid design. Shipping was a good few days faster than expected too. I don't have anything similar to compare the volume to, but it seems to be pretty quiet (its running now and i can barely hear it through a thin plywood wall). Glad I went with this and not a more expensive one, its exactly what i needed.

Edit; Company honoured the warranty. Thank you.

安いファンを買ったのですが、余りに風力が足りなくて困った挙句コレを買いました。 風力もバッチリで素晴らしい商品でした！ しかし、少し大きく、風力調整の為スピコンをかいました。 多分グロウテントの容量であれば200の100は大丈夫じゃないかと思います。 僕の場合は160の40のグロウテントなので少々オーバースペックでした。

Nice quality but add a dimmer 😏

I installed this on the duct going to a far bedroom that never got enough heat or A/C, and it really helped! It works much better than the "register booster fan" I tried. Some notes: - To install it, I removed a section of round duct and replaced that with a section of flexible aluminum duct with the fan in the middle, using 4 worm gear clamps to secure the flexible ducting to the fan and to the ends of the existing ducts. - The flanges on the fan aren't very wide, I found it much easier to attach the flexible duct to the fan before putting the fan into place. - I initially screwed it to a floor joist but that made the floor "hum"! So I screwed it into a basement concrete wall and now it's very quiet. - The only place I hear it through the floor register in the room it's blowing air into, but it's no louder than running a fan or space heater in that room. - I used a "CS-TS0 miniature current switch" so the fans turn on and off with the furnace. - I also got the "iPower Exhaust Fan Speed Controller" but I found it to be unnecessary.