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>The 20" box fan + MERV furnace filter hack

Living here in the west with hyper toxic AQI for the better part of two months now, I decided that the low CFM and leakage of a DIY box fan are not adequate to keep up. I went with a far more industrial solution: I went to an indoor grow shop and bought an activated carbon filter and high CFM inline fan. Cost $150 and is a bit noisy, but has been well worth it.



You can buy carbon activated MERV filters. I got some from Nordic Pure.


I’m surprised to hear this - a standard box fan from ace has something like ~600 cfm, right ?

That’s fairly high - what is the size and cfm of the fan you bought?


Not when you strap an HVAC filter on it. My setup is ~600cfm with much more filtering. Not sure what the MERV is but the cylindrical layer is much thicker and heavy duty than an HVAC filter.


what MERV rating is that. I do that now but I thought it's MERV 8 which really won't remove much at all


Link?


I wouldn't recommend this specific setup, but these are the type of filters/fans I am talking about:

https://www.amazon.com/VIVOSUN-Inline-Controller-Ducting-Ven...




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