glad you made it londoner, make yourself comfy!
i sent the missus for the munchies so fridge will be full soon.

i know i cant wait till there all growing and i can see the diffrences between them. some of the seeds had alot of diffrences in them. size & pattern.

dont know what to do with that swiss mix i got free. im never going to grow them.

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Originally Posted by sativaplanet420 To get your big harvest you water cool the bulbs (removing over 80 % of heat) and put the lights one inch from the top of the canopy. Too much light is bad

Hey can anyone tell me how to use these timers?

i had the instruction but i lost them. i know that i have to press however many of the bits down but.... oh i dunno

help pleeeeeeease

forgot tha link http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/24-HOUR-PLUG-I...d=p3286.c0.m14

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Originally Posted by sativaplanet420 To get your big harvest you water cool the bulbs (removing over 80 % of heat) and put the lights one inch from the top of the canopy. Too much light is bad

Right you see the black little arrow in the centre white circle, you turn the dial and set that so its pointing to the current time, then you set it for when you want the light to come on and off, on those its in 15min increments, push the little tabs down(towards the centre) for off, and up (towards the outside) for on.

They normally have a switch for timed or constant on or off, obviously you want it on timed(normally represented by a little pic of a clock).

Bear in mind those timers have no battery backup, so if you turn it off at the plug switch, or you have a powercut, or like me and forget to top up the lecky key then you need to reset the time.

And if you go any more than 250w with hps or cfl's then youl need to run it in conjunction with a contactor/relay, 250w and above hps's fry those timers and weld the timers contacts permenantly on!! Disaster if your in flower!!!

Oh and you can send me the free seeds you got il grow em out!! JK

ok well when i got it all teh little tabs are up. they can be pushed down twice. so the first click is to tell it how many hours i want it to stay on and the second click is to tell it how many to go off? am i right.

mate if you want them i'l send you them?

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Originally Posted by sativaplanet420 To get your big harvest you water cool the bulbs (removing over 80 % of heat) and put the lights one inch from the top of the canopy. Too much light is bad

just click a few of them down and then plug it in and turn it by hand, when the lights click off or on look at the dial to see which ones are up or down and then youll be able to tell which ones for on which for off.

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ive blown 3 timers with my lill 250w mh, i had to buy a more expensive one. Check the rating on the timer.

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Ive used timers rated at over 3100w but my old 250hps still used to fry them, its the high amps of the initial start up current of the HID's that kills them.

Grasslin timers are the best and will handle a 250 HID, still its advisable to use a contactor/relay just for peace of mind if nothing else.

Morning >>>>>>>>>>>>> anyone?

i gave up before i even started trying to work it out and went and bought a didital one

oh and the new ones 600w rated i think mate.

speaking of blowing things i plugged a liitle strip light in the 4xadapter last night and when i turned it on to try it it blew the fuse in the adapter and tripped all the sockets? safe to say its in the bin now

seeds still havent shown there pretty faces through the soil yet hopefully they will be through by the end of the weekend. so far im just sorting out the grow cab. put some light fitting in ready for the cfl's.

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Originally Posted by sativaplanet420 To get your big harvest you water cool the bulbs (removing over 80 % of heat) and put the lights one inch from the top of the canopy. Too much light is bad

i dont think i'l be too bad though mate as its only a 70w im working with and couple of little cfl's?

Fridge is restocked too people.

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Originally Posted by sativaplanet420 To get your big harvest you water cool the bulbs (removing over 80 % of heat) and put the lights one inch from the top of the canopy. Too much light is bad