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12-15-2010, 03:38 PM #35
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would like opinions on seedling light schedule
@ Bigsby,
The main light is 12/12, but you would consider the 1/2hr on each end part of the photoperiod so it is actually 13/11.
Thank you for recognizing I dailed it back. The line by line responce was me pissed.
@ Wonder,
I have a shit load of wiring and it's not just the lights.
I've tried to be very neat about everything, but even then there is a bunch of stuff running around but it is usually secured to walls or the two panels (plywood rectangles) that are mounted on the walls.
One panel I call the control panel, it has 2 double gang electric recptacles mounted on it. Plus 4 Intermatic mechanical timers, that are normally hard wired but have black electric wire pigtails with 3 of them that plug into the outlets. This allows me to pull the plug if I need to work on anything. But it does srew up the timer, tho not hard to reset)
1st timer controls the main led/T5 hybred light.
2nd timer controls the far red lights.
3rd timer controls the UVb lights
4th timer.....is hard wired to the other panel where a dc/110v inverter is mounted. This controls emergency lighting that is 2 small floro lights (like from a camping light) that run on 12v, this ckt has a 12v photocell that makes the emergency lights come on should I loose power during the photoperiod. BUT only during that time.
The first 3 timers also have a disconnect ckt so that if power is lost for more then abt 1 minute and then comes back the timers stay dead and the lights stay off, so I don't get fooled into thinking everything is ok, when in reality the timers are now off sequence by any lenght of time.
The second panel has the above mentioned inverter, a 12v battery charger, 2-250w power supplies for LED side of light, 3-IceCap electronic ballasts for the floros (2 for main light T5s 4 lights ea, 1 for UVb floros 4 lights). The floro wiring was/is the hardest to keep neat, each ballast has 9 small guage wire harneses (molex connectors on each end) and each have extension harneses.
Since it is a rotating garden, if the electric was to be off for 15mins or more the plants are trash. So the "ferris wheel" has been modified with a dc motor and runs off the battery (12v deep cycle). The plants in wheel are feed via a low pressure pump, near the top of the wheel to the bottoms of 4" RW delta blocks, feed sequence is done with a mechanical micro switch as each set of blocks are under the feed tubes. There is also a inline timer, not mounted, to control the feed events.
It's really pretty simple.
[typed that with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek]
OM
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