Renfro
Well-Known Member
So I dug into my stash and drug out a few of the 1500 watt ballasts to play
For perspective I took a photo of the 1500 watt MH bulb with a 5 gallon bucket for scale, it's kinda retarded lol imagine that thing moving back and forth down the aisle. I figure I will have to set the delay as short as possible at the ends of the light rail, if it sits in one spot too long it might become an issue. Definitely gonna need to keep the light rails clean, if they get greasy from the little motor the wheels can slip. I haven't used the light rails since I took the SE HPS lights out of my veg room so I will have to pull a few of those down and clean em up.
I was gonna plug it in and fire it up for grins but of course the vertical socket cords I have handy are Hydrofarm plug and the ballast has the Sun system type plug and of course I have several adapters but they are all the wrong ones lol So the test fire will have to wait a minute unless I find something handy. I won't actually install it all until after this crop is out of the way, it's too tight in there right now plus I don't want wood crumbs from drilling holes in the floor joists to get in the buds. So sometime next month I will have them up and running if all goes as planned. and they will run for the whole crop, 1500 watt HPS until about day 45 - 50 and then I will switch them to the 1500 watt metal halides.
For perspective I took a photo of the 1500 watt MH bulb with a 5 gallon bucket for scale, it's kinda retarded lol imagine that thing moving back and forth down the aisle. I figure I will have to set the delay as short as possible at the ends of the light rail, if it sits in one spot too long it might become an issue. Definitely gonna need to keep the light rails clean, if they get greasy from the little motor the wheels can slip. I haven't used the light rails since I took the SE HPS lights out of my veg room so I will have to pull a few of those down and clean em up.
I was gonna plug it in and fire it up for grins but of course the vertical socket cords I have handy are Hydrofarm plug and the ballast has the Sun system type plug and of course I have several adapters but they are all the wrong ones lol So the test fire will have to wait a minute unless I find something handy. I won't actually install it all until after this crop is out of the way, it's too tight in there right now plus I don't want wood crumbs from drilling holes in the floor joists to get in the buds. So sometime next month I will have them up and running if all goes as planned. and they will run for the whole crop, 1500 watt HPS until about day 45 - 50 and then I will switch them to the 1500 watt metal halides.