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The Ice Box by Hydro Innovations is a safe and efficient way to water-cool air.

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The Ice Box is a safe and effective way to water-cool the air leaving your reflectors without adding a/c or more fans. It uses a water to air heat exchanger to water-cool the hot air reflectors produce.

Finally, a safe and very efficient way to water-cool your entire grow room! It consists of a high-quality heat-exchanger with a strong molded plastic housing. One side of the housing is designed to install over a 6″ air-cooled reflector duct flange, and as an option the opposite side can be attached to 6″ air ducting (depending on inline fan placement). Air from your indoor garden is either pushed or pulled through the reflectors with an inline fan and then passed over the Ice Box heat exchanger. Cold water is circulated through the heat exchanger, cooling the air before it exits right back into the indoor garden area. The longer the tubing the higher the pump. But you don’t want to use too high of a pump, due to the fact that it may not allow adequate time for the water to chill. If humidity is an issue in your room, you may want to put the reservoir outside the room.

Water-cooling is much more effective and efficient than air-cooling, water can absorb and remove from your garden 4 times the heat nearly 20 times faster than air! It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that water-cooling will reduce your electric bill … making your grow room a much happier place for you and your plants.

In addition to cooling the heat from all those miniature suns we have in our grow rooms, if the water running through the Ice Box is cold enough, it can actually add supplemental air conditioning to your room, making them great for every operation from hut to warehouse.