im not gonna get $1500 of product from a 400watt htg light.

Why wont you. $200 x 10= $2000, $400 oz / 2000 = 5oz.
I don't know how fast you will get it back but you will get it back and much more then 10x in the long run.
This is a one time purchase of $200 if you can afford it. Like i said before ebay sells them all day every day for $200 or less. Two sold today for around $130.

How many plants do you have now? With a LM you can x it by 2 at least.

Good luck with your project one way or the other.

yeah i got ya man but i wanna make one because i cant afford the initial investment in the mechanism.

I feel your pain

I made one from a sliding shower door rail and my ocillating fan...I attached a dowel rod on my fan pointing forward, I then tied strings to the end of the rod and ran the strings thru eyelets screwed into the side walls and to the light hanging on the rail...the light moves 24 inches, 12 from center right and 12 from center left....works like a charm...cost me nothing, I had the fan, the rail and slider was from an old shower door...Snow White is gonna love this...

I only grow 1 plant at a time, but I noticed the dark side of the buds isnt as frosty as the light side so a light mover is in order...next harvest will tell the tale in 14-15 weeks...a buddy used a light rail 3.5 in a past grow and increased his yield by 80% over the previous crop, I dont have the room to grow more, just grow the 4x4 foot area with better buds...I can hardly wait...

bump.
i just thought of how i could do it.
was thinking of how those ceiling fan light type of light movers work and came up with this

talking to a friend about the wire to the light........im gonna put the light on a swivel.......then make the wire to the light long as hell and suspend it from the side of the room exact same heigth as the fixture for the light itself.
then ill take it all down and do a vertical grow like im starting now.
lol time for new plans on a light mover.

check out my northern farmer vertical grow thread. there isnt a cheaper vertical solution on this site than that one. your welcome rollitup

a drill ... saw it in a grow vid one time i think maybe on you tube

i seen a light mover for 100 bucks the other day.....

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