WTF? My timer didn't switch last night!

So as the title says. I checked on my lady this morning only to find that the timer never turned off las night. WTF?? I was in the room yesterday when the lights turned off so I know this is the first day the timer has not worked. So instead of getting 12/12 it got 17/7 last night. Has this happened to anyone else? Did it hermie your plant? Boy do I hope my lady is ok. I'm going to grab a new timer today and just start the 12/12 from when I turned the lights out. Man I am so bummed about this. Everything has gone well so far until this.

Your plant will br fine. Fix the timer or get a new digital one. I always use a relay to take the load off my timers.

Thanks for the advise bird. I'm going to look into the relay. Also, would I be better off just starting the light schedule where I left off or should i return to the previous schedule? I feel that if I try to put her back on the original schedule that I will only further stress her. Any advise?

Smooth i gone through about 5 timers now but got fed up with worrien about my ladys so finaly invested in a black box timer contactor, expensive but worth it just for piece of mind, out of the 5 times this happened only had 1 lot hermi on me and that was martian mean green and we have had problems with this strain in the past, so could have been a coinsurdence, not too sure.

Weird ,get a better timer. From now on when a light change is due make sure your in the room about that time to make sure everything went ok.

I keep my schedule no matter what. I've had this problem before and I just return them back to the planned schedule. For about $100 you can get an industrial timer that will load up to 3000w.

Hey,

I've had this happen too, I would keep to the original schedule. For me it was them not turning on, so most of the time i'm waiting to go look.

Never had a problem with hermies but all my plants went into flower because the timer f'ed up one time...was about 3 weeks early messed my plans up a little but actually turned pretty good.


Cheers,
SilverSerf

Just reset the timer for the right time and keep a watch on it...something like this happening once or twice won't hurt anything..but over and over it could cause issues.

I got these super cool surge protectors with programmable times...you can set like 6 different on and off times each day and there are like 5 timered outlets and one not on the timer...they are the shit yo!

missnu said:

I got these super cool surge protectors with programmable times...you can set like 6 different on and off times each day and there are like 5 timered outlets and one not on the timer...they are the shit yo!

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This sounds intriguing. Are they as expensive as the industrial timers? My grow isn't that large or sophisticated so I just bought a new timer for the time being. I wouldn't mind spending around 50 bucks for a decent solution but $100 is just not reasonable for me taking in consideration how much everything else has costed. Thanks to everyone who posted and reps to all.
Smooth.