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faithless
11-12-2006, 09:31 PM
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I've heard this several times, that you can't put flours on a timer.
Why is that? And what should one do about that?

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BlueBear
11-12-2006, 09:35 PM
What exactly do you mean?
Adieu
gunge9
11-12-2006, 09:35 PM
Timers=yes, dimmers=no.
faithless
11-12-2006, 09:37 PM
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Last time I was checking out flours at a shop, the guy warned me about using a timer on them. In fact, he said: "You're not going to use times on them, are you?" which I took to be a warning of something. When he asked me that, I seemed to remember having heard before that flours should not be run on timers.

Some flours come with built in ballasts and some without, perhaps it has to do with that?

Edit:
Gunge, you're right, I was mixing them up.
Thanks.

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BlueBear
11-12-2006, 09:57 PM
When you order many fluoro set ups from hydro shops they come with timers.
Adieu
oldsanclem
11-12-2006, 10:30 PM
Ok mechanical timers will work , but the electronics timers may goof up. Just get the timmer with the little pins red green , lots of them out there at xmas time. About 6-10 bucks, plan ahead they only last about 10-15 years.
faithless
11-12-2006, 10:32 PM
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I have 2 timers, I just mixed timer up with dimmer, cos I'm dumb.
My HPS is old, but flours is a new field for me.

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chicago_white_guy
11-13-2006, 01:29 AM
my flouros don't go on a timer because it has a pullchain to turn the bulbs on. could i bypass the switch and build it to always be on?
JEFFAR420
11-13-2006, 02:05 AM
Just leave tne light on, The timers will do the work of shutting it off and on right?...
TheGreenFog
11-13-2006, 08:53 AM
I have 2 timers, I just mixed timer up with dimmer, cos I'm dumb.
My HPS is old, but flours is a new field for me.


Faitheless, you scared me there for a minute with that whole timer/dimmer mix-up. lol



my flouros don't go on a timer because it has a pullchain to turn the bulbs on. could i bypass the switch and build it to always be on?



Just leave tne light on, The timers will do the work of shutting it off and on right?...

Yes. Should be. Just plug them in, then pull the chain so they go on, and then set them on a timer. The timer will turn them off and on. Let us know.

G'luck all.

:rasta: RastafarI

TGF
santacruz_organic
11-13-2006, 08:29 PM
I grew my whole last grow with flouros on electrical timers.
faithless
11-13-2006, 08:31 PM
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Santa, how did they flower under cfls?
How many watts and how many plants?
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stinkyattic
11-13-2006, 08:59 PM
my flouros don't go on a timer because it has a pullchain to turn the bulbs on. could i bypass the switch and build it to always be on?

The timer has an outlet in it. Plug the whole fixture into the outlet. Set the timer. Problem solved.
TheGreenFog
11-13-2006, 09:11 PM
Are my posts invisible?

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:rasta:

TGF
stinkyattic
11-13-2006, 09:30 PM
Sorry F[r]oggy. =p
TheGreenFog
11-13-2006, 10:13 PM
;) Np, Stinky.

I thought I had dissappeared. I was like,

"DAMN, that's some good weed! Makes you invisible! I'll be rich!"

No go, though...no invisible-cloak cannabis. :(

:D :D :D

:rasta:

TGF

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