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GrassMaster

GrassMaster

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ganjaboii024 said:
first I want to say that doesn't look like a grow light. It looks like you just twisted the wires togeather and didn't insulate the connections.



that light is a 26watt halogen flood bulb.. it should work ... but anyways i thought that if i connected to wires back together without each side toching eachother that it would work???? is there anything else i can do besides ''marrets '' to make it work again????
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OregonMeds

OregonMeds

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They're called wire nuts to us yanks. Take that to any hardware store and they'll charge you like 20 cents for the right size nuts if they have them individually like at True Value or whatever.

I can't tell for sure in the pic, but it looks like the wires are touching and shorting. You could have at least taped them up seperatly.

Lastly halogen's especially a 26w one, has no use in growing marijuana. They put out the wrong spectrum of light and put out so much heat you can't get it close enough to even let the plant get what little light is usable at all to the plant.

Buy cfl's if that's all you can afford. The bigger the better. 120w equivalent 42w actual are good. Or larger.
 
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ganjaboii024

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GrassMaster said:
ganjaboii024 said:
first I want to say that doesn't look like a grow light. It looks like you just twisted the wires togeather and didn't insulate the connections.



that light is a 26watt halogen flood bulb.. it should work ... but anyways i thought that if i connected to wires back together without each side toching eachother that it would work???? is there anything else i can do besides ''marrets '' to make it work again????
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halogen flood bulbs suck, honestly you might as well plug in a 26 watt mug warmer and aim that at your plant, it would be just about as useful

like oregon said, get a cfl or 2, the daylight ones (6500K), they work great for veg, put out little heat so you can get em nice and close to your babies

you could just twist the wires together like that and just make sure you tape it up on both sides, separately, and then tape over the whole thing well so it wont just pull apart
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Jtoth3ustin

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i woke up.. rode my bike to the spot.(got a few weeks of flowering for this crop). twisted a game up. and read how a mug warmer is beast on plants. haha.. i think my bottle of propane can grow plants quicker than your mug warmer :fire: Pe@ce..

if i smoked the good stuff like some diesel in the morning. it would be night when i would wake back up.
 
southern homegrower

southern homegrower

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ganjaboii024 said:
this link should help you a lot http://www.do-it-yourself-help.com/wiring_receptacles.html

for a 240 volt outlet you only need the 2 lives, and a ground

you ran a black from each side of the double pole breaker (that makes up the 240 volts) those blacks get connected to the 2 sides of the plug and the bare wire (ground) connects to the ground screw on the plug, the whites are not needed (you ran 2 120 lines instead of 1 240)

use just 1 line, connect the white to the other side of the breaker so you have the black and white wires connected to the double pole breaker (mark the white so you know its live with red or black electric tape) and connect the black and white (now live, not neutral) to the 2 sides of the plug and the ground to the ground screw

ask questions if you dont get it

hope this helped
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that 220 volt line i ran is 20 ft long will that be a problem
 
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ganjaboii024

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Jtoth3ustin said:
i woke up.. rode my bike to the spot.(got a few weeks of flowering for this crop). twisted a game up. and read how a mug warmer is beast on plants. haha.. i think my bottle of propane can grow plants quicker than your mug warmer :fire: Pe@ce..

if i smoked the good stuff like some diesel in the morning. it would be night when i would wake back up.
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lol, propane can (1Lb) vs. mug warmer (26W)
tru about passing out but with a nice breakfast and some coffee i kinda skip rite over the burning out and passing out part, at night tho...i smoke till im out cold :hump::mrgreen:
 
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Jtoth3ustin

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yea thats what i needed this morn.. some coffee. the dam cornerstore was closed..

your electrical skillz are needed^^^^^^^^
 
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ganjaboii024

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hey guys, if anyone here knows anything about DWC and root rot, please click on my second grow link in my sig and help me out.
thanks
 
NICKO DIAMOND

NICKO DIAMOND

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mygirls said:
its not that hard to add up your amps then look at breaker and see if it will handle the load or not.
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well i have a question. I live in an apartment with free electricity do you think my landlord or the electric company can notice where the power is coming from. There is only one breaker for the entire building, also everything is electric from stoves to heaters. I just need help asap im a first time grower.


Equipment list
1 1000 hps light with a quantum digi ballast
ac unit plug on the wall
one 8 inch can fan
one regular house fan.
 
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ganjaboii024

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NICKO DIAMOND said:
well i have a question. I live in an apartment with free electricity do you think my landlord or the electric company can notice where the power is coming from. There is only one breaker for the entire building, also everything is electric from stoves to heaters. I just need help asap im a first time grower.


Equipment list
1 1000 hps light with a quantum digi ballast
ac unit plug on the wall
one 8 inch can fan
one regular house fan.
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some landlords actually watch your power consumption when they provide free electricity believe it or not but a 1000 watt HID and 8" can fan i dont think would stand out that much
 
NICKO DIAMOND

NICKO DIAMOND

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ganjaboii024 said:
some landlords actually watch your power consumption when they provide free electricity believe it or not but a 1000 watt hid and 8" can fan i dont think would stand out that much
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thanks bro. Also where can i get the best strains from or clones. I order some seeds and 2 out of 10 or female plants its killing b=me right now. Im from southern cali.
 
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wowzerz

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ganjaboii024 said:
your fan is rated for 12 volts 4 amps, thats 48 watts of power, your transformer could only supply 14 watts. its as simple as that
you could run that off a transformer just make sure it can handle around 50 watts of power, if you run it at 9 volts its just going to be slower
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Well I went and bought this 12vdc 3.5 Amp Power supply:
http://www.papatek.com/LCD-AC-Adapter/Acer-AL715-LCD-AC-Adapter-12V-3.5A.html
, and wired it up and it doesn't work...I don't get it, the fan just pulses off and on but won't run continuous. And I have this other 12vdc 3.2 amp power supply, sometimes it comes on when plugged in and runs fine, but most time when it is plugged in it just kicks on for like .1 second then goes off, almost like there is a breaker inside kicking or something. I don't know where to go from here, I have this computer power supply but I am not sure if it will work, any thoughts on any of this? Thanks
 
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ganjaboii024

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wowzerz said:
Well I went and bought this 12vdc 3.5 Amp Power supply:
http://www.papatek.com/LCD-AC-Adapter/Acer-AL715-LCD-AC-Adapter-12V-3.5A.html
, and wired it up and it doesn't work...I don't get it, the fan just pulses off and on but won't run continuous. And I have this other 12vdc 3.2 amp power supply, sometimes it comes on when plugged in and runs fine, but most time when it is plugged in it just kicks on for like .1 second then goes off, almost like there is a breaker inside kicking or something. I don't know where to go from here, I have this computer power supply but I am not sure if it will work, any thoughts on any of this? Thanks
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the one in the pic is 12 volts 2 amps, wont work

the link you atached is a good power supply but its not strong enough for your fan, it pulsing on and off is probably the power supply turning on, realising its overloaded and shuting off, then repeating that cycle...

you might want to look around and see if you can find a car battery charger/booster thats 12 volts 10 amps and use that, they are built sturdy and they are cheap, even new they are like 25 bux, and 10 amps is more than enough power for you fan so you should have no problem

this is the reason most people stick to ac fans, with dc fans that operate on low voltages like 12 volts you need a lot more amps to get the same amount of power, these power supplies are hard to come by

sorry i didnt respond earlier RIU was down last night
 
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wowzerz

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ganjaboii024 said:
the one in the pic is 12 volts 2 amps, wont work

the link you atached is a good power supply but its not strong enough for your fan, it pulsing on and off is probably the power supply turning on, realising its overloaded and shuting off, then repeating that cycle...

you might want to look around and see if you can find a car battery charger/booster thats 12 volts 10 amps and use that, they are built sturdy and they are cheap, even new they are like 25 bux, and 10 amps is more than enough power for you fan so you should have no problem

this is the reason most people stick to ac fans, with dc fans that operate on low voltages like 12 volts you need a lot more amps to get the same amount of power, these power supplies are hard to come by

sorry i didnt respond earlier RIU was down last night
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Thanks for the reply. And since then I have ordered another LCD power supply, this one being 12v 5a and it does the same as the last, just pulses off and on.
Mabye I will try and track down a battery charger. Is there ant reasonably priced (most of those inline fans are Pricey) AC fans that you would recomend for venting?
 
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