Once you get that cement mixer.....do you do rentals? :D
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Once you get that cement mixer.....do you do rentals? :D
No I love my Reverse....and all the other toys etc I got talked into. All I need is one or two times when we aren't home for a power outage to occur and there goes my timer....and light schedule. We're way in hicksville so stuff like that happens alot. I mean...I have dial-up at 26k......surprised we get the internet at all.
The first year I grew I ended up with 15 female plants....some outside and some hydro...and came up with four hermies. Only the two haze plants had the window problem....god only knows what i did to the others. Last two grows I used reverse....10 females....0 hermies. And while I never PLAN to stress my plants......believe me all my stress to them is done with the specific intent of IMPROVING them....not killing them if you'll buy that one....it just seems to keep happening anyway so I need all the help I can get. :D
Nah, 'Hound. You can use when needed free of charge. I could just see it now. Her catch me with a brand new cement mixer (plastic drum) out in the garage drilling holes in it. She'd have me committed for sure.
Those boxes over the windows wrok great by the way. What I did was put 3 dow pins in the piece of 2x4 I screwed to studs above the window. Then when you build box drill holes to line up with pins in the piece of plywood that will be the top of your box. You can sit box right on there and the dow pins hold 'er right in place. You need a piece of 2x4 along each side of winder and one across bottom also. But with them dow pins you can lift off when ya want/if needed with no hassle. And you get zero light leaks. Screw 1x1's to the plywood to the side where you will need to attach other pieces to minus the 1 1/2-3/4 (depends on the 2x4) inches for the 2x4 frame so its flush with wall. I should snap some foto's of this stuff. Easy as hell to make, but really hard to explain.
Easiest way to do is drill plywood first where dow pins will fit in top piece, then hold 2x4 against and mark holes on it. Then drill yer 2x4, stick cut pieces of dow pins in holes with a little wood glue, and voila. Doesnt matter if one is 1/2 inch or so longer. I am a perfectionist, so I installed mine. Then I measured each one to 3/4 inch length and sawed them off so all were perfectly even. No need for all that tho. That beats the hell outa tryin to measure to center of each pin, not lining up, frustration, heavy drinking, throwing tools, etc etc etc. And best part is if anyone were to look from outside all you see is the closed mini blind. No idea there is anything behind it.
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Heavy drinking, throwing tools. Oh yeah, THAT one sounds familiar. I'll be giggling about that the rest of the day now :S2: ....wanted to rep you for that one but already did....:(
ok well I have it so dark in there now I can't see anything to walk around...haha atleast without falling hopefully that will improve...it does seem like Zola is turning quicker than Eve...
I think I read that smaller plants finish quicker so I guess that would mean they turn quicker too...lemme know if that makes sense ;-)
Zola is starting to look like she's got little tufts of hairs/leaves so if I remember right and from the pics she's goin the right way but Eve is doin the same thing just looks like it's slower...Eve is like 30 inches tall where Zola is only 18
That cement mixer sounds like fun...I'm definately planning on fixing up some plumbing and all that I'll get pictures of my setup once it's put together a little better everything is jumbled right now...
That sucks about the power WH and generators are too expensive to be practical...hopefully you don't have that often
I'm off to find a way to plant the new babies I'll check back later ;-)
Actually we do have a 6500 watt gas gen....but if you aren't there to start it up.... It is hooked into the existing power supply so you can flip a switch and it will power things up BUT the plants are last in line for it.....behind the well, the heat, (or a/c as the case may be) the fridge, the fishtanks etc..... It kind of does happen alot around here....drunks hitting power poles, branches falling on power lines, fires.....For the plants it's really just a timing issue.....if power goes off for an hour during the day the plants will still get light but the timer will pick up where it left off....an hour late. If the pump is off for an hour or so I won't worry....any more than that and I'll use the gen for it.
ASD, according to my buddy (Union Electrician), those home generators really should not be used for powering H.I.D. lights anyways. He went into some long winded explanation about steady current or current spikes, or something. It was one of the conversations after 12-15 beers and a few d00bs. So the Cliff Note version is I dont think wise to use them.
I have a whole house propane that has some kinda switch/relay thing between generator and panel box that regulates current, or prevents surges or spikes, or whatever that makes it fine to use for my lights he said. But those portable ones must not be the ticket. I too, live in BFE. I've been 3-4 days years ago w/o power. Hence the whole house generator.
Not having to listen to the old lady bitch for 3-4 days is worth every damn dime I have in that generator. I mean everything in life has its price. Just some more expensive than others....LOL:D :D
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Do you have to flip the generator on? I think I've seen generators that switch on automatically to avoid any power shutdown to appliances and all that...not really sure how that setup works and all I've never had to deal with a generator other than just doin work on a job site but those were just gas powered on wheels that you could cart around with ya...
rofl I hear ya on the generator...I've only used them to do repair work aka tools and lighting to do carpentry....I've never used em for hid lights and I guess I could see the spikes bein a problem...I'd want to make sure like you said it was a smooth power transmition to avoid damage to the bulb and ballast....my girl is fine with stuff as long as she doesn't have to deal with it...so I just try to make everything as hands off as possible...the last thing I need is her complaining about when she was blinded when she walked into a room or the water wasn't working...god forbid a circuit breaker trip...rofl
I'm just psyched that the girls are looking like they're turning...I'm hopin to have some to burn eventually cause I've been sober for too long now I basically decided to grow once I realized there was nothing around here worth it...nothing worse than taking 15 bong hits and having a headache with barely a buzz to show for it
ASD, mine kicks on weekly to test itself, and then its automatic when power goes off. Its literally a few seconds. The wiring from it comes underground in conduit and then into this box that has I dont know what the hell its called, then into panel box. If I had to guess I would imagine a transformer of some sort or something. I guess whatever triggers it to kick on is in that box also. It has a timer you set for it to do its test. Can pick time of day you want to run.
If it were to not work, I would not be messing with it. I'd call my buddy. That much power is out of my league. Way out. I dont need in that box peeking around.......LOL
RUns quiet as hell, can barely hear it when you are outside and its running. If I am not mistaking I think mine is 20 KW. I know I can run everything we want to with no problems. Fridge, heat/ac, tv's, computers, freezer, etc. Buddy told me what size to get, and he does this stuff for a living so I took his advice when I bought it.
I have a Honda portable that I sometimes throw in truck if helping someone with outside project. Nice as shit to have so you can run tools w/o dragging extension cords for 3 miles to get some juice. Love a cordless drill, but the rest of the cordless line you can have.
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