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Old March 19, 2017   #8
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Originally Posted by rhines81 View Post
You can get by without a vent for the cold days and nights, but in direct sun those plastic houses get extremely hot inside, even if the air is cool. Consider making a closable vent (maybe using Velcro or something) so that you can open it up when it is sunny and above 10C outside, but keep it closed otherwise.
Also, those units aren't exactly air-tight so you will experience some air exchange with a small fan.
Oh yea, if it snows you might want to go out and keep it cleaned off every couple of inches - they are not the most rigid units in the world.
OK - This is good. So not so much fresh air that's needed but rather need to keep from over heating.... I suppose I could install the fan and set the temp controller to to cool as well as heat. So below 23C the heat will kick on and above say 30C the fan will power up.... That would probably solve any stale air issues as well...

I want to try and keep this thing fully automated....
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