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Here is what I am working with/on. I have two plants about waist high, both flowering, and I use sunlight plus this light to supplement. I think the light from various spectrum will do a good job, as long as you concentrate on the red (2700) during flowering. I'm sure we'd all love a couple of...

Ok, lets see, when I last posted I was talking about the 4 wire plug and cord. The UPS box had a plug in it, standard duplex outlet, so I removed it, and removed enough metal to put the round NEMA 14-20P outlet. I left the little gaps around it where the duplex had been, to allow a little more...

Yep, it is small, as I say I am trying for a 2ft x 3ft area, and later, with the sunlight I hope to cover a bathtub sized area, with a moving mechanism. I have always thought a moving light to be better, as no leaves can stay in the shade, so more of the available light is used by the plants. My...

I went and got a 70W yard light @ Home Depot, and looked for lamp parts. I found nice little porcelain sockets, that mount with a single screw from inside the socket, but come with a metal arm with 3/8" lamp threads. They also had threaded tubing, and nuts that would fit the tubing, and hold the...

Ok, I started commenting on some of the design thoughts, so I'll get more into the cost factor. It may differ for me, as I have tons of electrical, piping, and relays, capacitors, timers, etc from my HVACR + Solar business that I had to close when I became disabled (I prefer "medically retired")...

Hello Ya'll! I am in the southwest, and we have loads of sun, so I have been doing a grow this year using the sun through a textured window, and I noted the days shorter than 12 hrs, and lots of cloudy days this year. I needed some supplementary lighting. Being a fabricator at heart, and on a...

I just finished building a light, out of a Dish Network dish, with a 70W HPS in center, and 6 CFL's around it. I put the ballast in an old computer backup power supply case, used a 4 wire cord with 4 wire 20A plug. This carries the power to CFL's, and the power to HPS bulb from ballast, as well...

Don't be fooled, they are strong now, healthy strong, however emotionally they could have animosity toward you, or people in general, yes, as human as they seem, we must remember, they are plants. So they, at this point have not decided whether to help you, or grow some knock out sleepy stuff...

cool, waiting.... Thanks Zenith, I'll do that, and I am, of course, available to assist others with their plant's emotional issues as well. It is important that your plants really like you, and feel that you are really on their side. Once they know and like you, they get a better sense for...

Ok, help me with this, This is a soil grow. I have a plant about half inch stem at the place where it splits into two nearly the same size branches. I naturally tied the two limbs together at the Y with yarn, (green if it matters), to prevent any splitting, as I "spread that little girl wide...

Tick, Tock, lol! I have a couple of babys just up, and a couple in flower, and waiting for the buds to grow is almost as bad as waiting on the babies to stand alone and toughen up. If everything is going well, you will be needing more lighting real soon, and a lot more for flowering stage.

That is .3 amps x 1.25 = .375 A, best use a 1 amp fuse if that is the only one on the circuit. As far as a home circuit, they are always 15 or 20A, usually 15A. the reason is that #14 size wire can carry that much (15A) for reasonable home distances, without heating up and resulting voltage...

Howdy Everyone, I just read this entire Journal, beginning to here, took about a week, but well worth the read. Thanks! This really feeds my OCD personality well. I become quite obsessed with anything I do, or think about for very long. Great info here though!

Quick Comment about the tube on the thermostats for small refrigerators. They actually are tubes, and they contain a small amount of refrigerant, part liquid, part gas, and transport pressure from the sensing bulb to the diaphragm inside that operates a switch. This switch is designed to carry...