Help on this one!

[stumpjumper]

I have my room in my basement. It's locked up down there.

But, we have a heat wave today and I'm running about 85-88 as it right now. I'm afraid she's gonna hit 90 down there today.


Here's the deal though. The wife and I are going away for the day so since nobody is in my house, can I leave that door down there open as long as the rest of my house is locked up, it would still be in a locked enclosed facility right??

If I do that my temps will stay below 85 and I wont have to worry..

 

[Murfy]

yes-

i think a low court has even ruled, your property, is an enclosed locked facility.

 

[stumpjumper]

Thats good. I think while people are in my house though I have to have it locked up down there which is no problem. I just dont want to fry them..

I need to get a duct fan pretty quick.. a carbon filter too

 

[cephalopod]

or just put enough light in there on a timer so they know to wake up

 

[stumpjumper]

Well I'm running them on a full 24 right now.

 

[Murfy]

if you're worried-

do what ceph suggests. maintenance lighting.

 

[poorjunkie]

if you had a dimmable ballast you may dim the setting down during heat waves so save on electric and also decrease heat.

i recommend SolisTek digital ballast because they have ignition control features. i run 6 of these in my grow, best ballast i have used hands down. and no i am no rep for them. just educating about whats good shit. BLAH

 

[stumpjumper]

I have a 600w dimmable but youre not supposed to dim a 600w MH, I guess they recommend putting in a 400w bulb...

 

[tomcatjones]

I have a 600w dimmable but youre not supposed to dim a 600w MH, I guess they recommend putting in a 400w bulb...

show me some proof sir. in fact i was under the impression that putting in an incorrect wattage would be MORE harmful, rather than save you from any detrimental factors.

Edit: I have a Quantum ballast 600w dimmable, i kept my temps around 78-80 at 75 percent power for the last couple days.

 

[Beagle]

Could just kill the lights for the day.

 

[stumpjumper]

It says it in the Lumatek owners manual?

 

[tomcatjones]

your manual for your ballast? ...why then would they even add such a feature? see my confusion in your logic - but beyond that i know my ballast manual says never ever to put the wrong size light in it. this makes sense to me.

 

[lapperll]

your lamp acts like a resistor. A 400 watt lamp will only pull 400 watts from the ballast. Just my 2 cents.

 

[ismokealotofpot]

if you run 24 7 just get some cheap fluorescent lights t 8 i got some at menards for like 17 bucks 6 bucks for some skylight bulbs. they dont get hot or use a lot of power and you can put them rite on top of the plant.

 

[grizlbr]

if you run 24 7 just get some cheap fluorescent lights t 8 i got some at menards for like 17 bucks 6 bucks for some skylight bulbs. they dont get hot or use a lot of power and you can put them rite on top of the plant.

Worked for me sprouting this year. Only warm place was the top of my ballast. Plants grew up into reflector.

 

[stumpjumper]

yeah flouros work, I was using cfl's but switched up to the mh. I think hid's grow them a little faster..