Flood table homemade growtent

FilthyFletch

FilthyFletch

Mr I Can Do That For Half
So what your liking about the flip flop is it can turn multip[le ballasts on at the same time in 2 rooms?Im not following.If you turn 6 lights on your not gonna get a 7 am spike you will get a spike from ever ballast that comes on.The only way to delay the spike is if it turns 1 light on every 15 minutes then you will spike 7 amps 6 times still showing a 24 amp spike in an hour period which now you have an odd ball light schedule so a true 12/12 can not be setup.I use a desiganated high amp timer for a room that has more then 2 1000 watt lights that will allow me up to 6 lights to safely be turned on together without a breaker trip as its hardwired with its own 40 amp breaker.Not sure If thats what your meaning or if Im missing why youd need the flip flop to control 2 seperate rooms if you have enough ballasts.Like I said I dont need them as I have plenty of lights from over the years but if your starting all new and wanted to minimized the need for buying lets say over 12 ballast then yeah I can see the benefits but me I have a few dozen ballast on hand and my grow areas are usually a few miles apart so they cant be linked.
 
southfloridasean

southfloridasean

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with the flip flop relay the balast never turns off. Lets say I had two 1000s in flowering room A & the timer was set at 7am to come on & 7pm to come off. At 7pm the the flip flop relay would then transfer the power of the two 1000 watt bulbs from flowering room A to flowering room B at 7pm until the next day at 7am. This would allow me to run two different flowering rooms with an easy ebb & flow grow therefore making me yield more every 6-8 weeks. The ballast are constantly running 24/7 instead of coming on & off all the time showing spikes in the electricity & so forth.
 
FilthyFletch

FilthyFletch

Mr I Can Do That For Half
so the only thing your looking to gain in this setup is to stop a 2 millisecond soike of the exact same amperage which wont show any different then a common power surge? That way wouldnt make any difference to me at all as Its cheaper to just have another ballast or 2 setup on a hydrofarm dedicated hardwire timer as it does the same for half the cost, but like I said in a multiple room with say 6 lights in each then it would help but for 1 or 2 lights in 2 rooms not much advantage except another recepticle to watch.Really I dont see any advantages overall for it unless you grow the new dutch way Ill find the name of that method and post back I forgot what its called
 
southfloridasean

southfloridasean

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FilthyFletch said:
so the only thing your looking to gain in this setup is to stop a 2 millisecond soike of the exact same amperage which wont show any different then a common power surge? That way wouldnt make any difference to me at all as Its cheaper to just have another ballast or 2 setup on a hydrofarm dedicated hardwire timer as it does the same for half the cost, but like I said in a multiple room with say 6 lights in each then it would help but for 1 or 2 lights in 2 rooms not much advantage except another recepticle to watch.Really I dont see any advantages overall for it unless you grow the new dutch way Ill find the name of that method and post back I forgot what its called
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Filthy thanks for the input. Its appreciated. Just looking for new ways to maximize the growing experience. :peace:
 
FilthyFletch

FilthyFletch

Mr I Can Do That For Half
Give it a try and let me know what ya think of the flip flop setups maybe when I see it in action I can find a use for it for me too..Tooks osme more pics heres a few pictures showing a little more taken from the tent .Took another 3 1/2 oz of sweet purple out of the tent and then 2 oz of BB hard as rocks..First pics show the BB before trim and then trimmed in the hand then the rest are before and after trim sweet purple nugs then on a scale
 

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