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bengod

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A bit of advice needed for a noob, my ballast failed on day 2 of new set up with 4 week old very small stunted plants they were in dark for 5 hours longer than needed, and temps down to 16 deg C what's the chances of hermes ?
Hopefully get a replacement and is there anyproblems having extract fan on same relay/timer as light might this have caused ballast to fail its only a 100w fan with a dimmer switch to control speed of fan and a 600w digital ballast with 400w MH veg 600w HPS for flower.
Stunted growth due to only 11w for seeds 1st week out of ground, then 3 foot grow tube 25w' 2 x 35w 2600k cfls for 3 weeks still not enough for 3 plants.
Hence 400w MH upgrade but 2 nd day failure any advice appreciated.
 
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bengod said:
A bit of advice needed for a noob, my ballast failed on day 2 of new set up with 4 week old very small stunted plants they were in dark for 5 hours longer than needed, and temps down to 16 deg C what's the chances of hermes ?
Hopefully get a replacement and is there anyproblems having extract fan on same relay/timer as light might this have caused ballast to fail its only a 100w fan with a dimmer switch to control speed of fan and a 600w digital ballast with 400w MH veg 600w HPS for flower.
Stunted growth due to only 11w for seeds 1st week out of ground, then 3 foot grow tube 25w' 2 x 35w 2600k cfls for 3 weeks still not enough for 3 plants.
Hence 400w MH upgrade but 2 nd day failure any advice appreciated.
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Love to help m8, but I'm far too stoned & can't see the words . . .
 
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Saerimmner

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bengod said:
A bit of advice needed for a noob, my ballast failed on day 2 of new set up with 4 week old very small stunted plants they were in dark for 5 hours longer than needed, and temps down to 16 deg C what's the chances of hermes ?
Hopefully get a replacement and is there anyproblems having extract fan on same relay/timer as light might this have caused ballast to fail its only a 100w fan with a dimmer switch to control speed of fan and a 600w digital ballast with 400w MH veg 600w HPS for flower.
Stunted growth due to only 11w for seeds 1st week out of ground, then 3 foot grow tube 25w' 2 x 35w 2600k cfls for 3 weeks still not enough for 3 plants.
Hence 400w MH upgrade but 2 nd day failure any advice appreciated.
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Are you sure its the ballast thats gone? Have you tried a different bulb in the ballast in case its just the bulb thats blown?

As for the relay/timer thing, i used to have about 1500W all come on at once with no problem so ya should be fine there
 
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bengod

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98% sure its the ballast as i have a 600w Hps bulb that i tried no joy, also theres no electrical buzz, hum, spark as i plug in power lead, it tripped the electric too so veg chamber was dark and cold too :(
Also a possibility that the hps bulbs dud too lol i will do a resistance test on bulbs?

Thanks for the info i can stop thinking it was me that broke it.
 
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bengod

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yep tested fuse and used a different lead, tested current lead in something else all good so nope not a fuse, something big happened as it triped a 32Amp fuse
 
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