PlutonicChronic
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Is any kind of protection needed for these LEDs? I seem to remember reading a glh spectra grow several years back where he used something like an uninterrupted power supply.
surge protection
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hölynpöly
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I have an old 90 diode ufo. It was a day like any other, some time ago when in the evening I decided to get my self a nice cold beer which are always plentiful in my fridge. I´ve had that fridge for a year and a half. Well, my surprise was big when I noticed to my dismay that the beer I was longing for wasn´t cold. I was a little pissed too because I had just bought food that day and I wasn´t sure how the bulky cheese I had in there was gonna respond to being unproperly stored.
Later that evening after I had unplugged and plugged the fridge a few times and got it working again, I went to my grow capinet to check on my banana tree. After admiring the plant for a while as many of us often do without a practical reason to do some caretaking of plants. It occurred to me that something was a miss! Light was less as it should be! Half the diodes weren´t working. Bullcrap!! What an unlucky day to say the least I thought.
I´m not certain what had happened that day but it seems odd to have had two separate instances of failure in pretty trustworthy appliances within such a short period of time. Both appliances were connected to basic sockets although the UFO was set on a timer I think. I also remembered a peculiar high pitch scream that had ended abruptly, muffling into the more familiar sounds I am accustomed to in my two room apartment:Neighbours listening to crappy music or just plain, recognizable sounds of walking in the corridor. I never found out the reason behind the cry.
So either it was a rare,rare incident, while ignoring any kind of paranormal activity that I was unaware of, or there had been somekind of an abnormal spike in electrical circuits which the simultaneity of the events suggests as the culprit in a mind of a socalled 21st century civilized man.
I later managed to fix the led by soldering a small cord through one of the led connections and it works as good as new.Only with 89 diodes though. But a strange gloomy presence seemed to whisper in the air in the day of the repair, although I shrugged it off to imagination. But to this day I feel a slight chill when I reminescense the day when electrical appliances went beyond?
Later that evening after I had unplugged and plugged the fridge a few times and got it working again, I went to my grow capinet to check on my banana tree. After admiring the plant for a while as many of us often do without a practical reason to do some caretaking of plants. It occurred to me that something was a miss! Light was less as it should be! Half the diodes weren´t working. Bullcrap!! What an unlucky day to say the least I thought.
I´m not certain what had happened that day but it seems odd to have had two separate instances of failure in pretty trustworthy appliances within such a short period of time. Both appliances were connected to basic sockets although the UFO was set on a timer I think. I also remembered a peculiar high pitch scream that had ended abruptly, muffling into the more familiar sounds I am accustomed to in my two room apartment:Neighbours listening to crappy music or just plain, recognizable sounds of walking in the corridor. I never found out the reason behind the cry.
So either it was a rare,rare incident, while ignoring any kind of paranormal activity that I was unaware of, or there had been somekind of an abnormal spike in electrical circuits which the simultaneity of the events suggests as the culprit in a mind of a socalled 21st century civilized man.
I later managed to fix the led by soldering a small cord through one of the led connections and it works as good as new.Only with 89 diodes though. But a strange gloomy presence seemed to whisper in the air in the day of the repair, although I shrugged it off to imagination. But to this day I feel a slight chill when I reminescense the day when electrical appliances went beyond?
PlutonicChronic
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lmao holy shit i did not expect a response to that extent. Any led users here use protection? not irish boy, but the other guy who got spectras donated to him ( what was his name i cant find his posts! ) this guy was pretty set on using a device ( i want to say a special surge protector, kind of like a UPS...)
Read the spec numbers for each suggestion. That power strip only claims to protect from surges that are typically so tiny as to not do damage. Typical numbers for a UPS are even smaller - only hundreds of joules - near zero protection.
Power output from a UPS in battery backup mode can be so 'dirty' as to even degrade a power strip protector. That same UPS power is irrelevant to LEDs that already contain superior protection.
A completely different and third device is used. It is also called a surge protector. Any building that needs surge protection earths one 'whole house' protector. Even a UPS and power strip protector needs that protection. The superior solution may also cost less money.
Xoshua
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Not sure what the guy above me said but it sounds good. I use a powerstrip/ powerbar with circuit breaker in it. I would use it for any grow. Go to home depot or a similar store and check the heavy duty stuff. I bought a heavy duty timer (2 outlets) and a 4/5 star rating powerbar.
How does a millimeter gap in a circuit breaker stop what could not be stopped by kilometers of sky? How does a circuit breaker that takes milliseconds or minutes to trip stop a destructive transient that is done in microseconds? Hundreds of consecutive transients could pass through that circuit breaker before it even thought about opening.
Circuit breaker is to prevent a house fire after damage has happened. That powerbar does not even claim to do what the OP wants.
