Sealed up a room 10 months ago, after much success air cooling. I used a mini split and installed a autopilot 4 burner LP co2 generator. Pretty much right from the start I experienced problems. The plants where never the same again. I blamed myself, thinking that somehow I had made a mistake and my skills and strategies where not performing in a sealed room. I switched from peat to coco and back to peat, tried everything I could think, spent more money than you could imagine. Finally at my wits end, I moved in organic plants, peat plants fed salts, and coco plants fed other salts. They all crashed in essentially the same way. Immediately I realized it was nothing I was doing. Looked around for any plastics that could cause vocs, couldn't find much but pretty much removed everything made of plastic, still had the issue. At that point I got it! Pulled the co2 generator out, pulled out a bottled gas setup and my garden has never looked better.
It was absolutely this co2 generator at fault. I noticed that there was a buildup of black on the nozzles at this point. FWIW, i had thoroughly checked the flame during this whole time. It had been a nice flower shaped flame with no lazy qualities. It did show a bit of yellow over where the ignition wires where, it also would periodically flick a bit of yellow at the edges.
I still don't know if the flame and burner residue in these images and video are normal or not, interested to see what others who run generators say. I do know that for whatever reason it was causing huge problems.
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Sorry the video lost a lot of quality when it got uploaded, but you can still clearly see the flame quality and the slight bit of yellow flicking up.
It was absolutely this co2 generator at fault. I noticed that there was a buildup of black on the nozzles at this point. FWIW, i had thoroughly checked the flame during this whole time. It had been a nice flower shaped flame with no lazy qualities. It did show a bit of yellow over where the ignition wires where, it also would periodically flick a bit of yellow at the edges.
I still don't know if the flame and burner residue in these images and video are normal or not, interested to see what others who run generators say. I do know that for whatever reason it was causing huge problems.
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Sorry the video lost a lot of quality when it got uploaded, but you can still clearly see the flame quality and the slight bit of yellow flicking up.