Best cheap battery powered LED for power outage?

Looking for the best LED that takes batteries in even of power outage as an SOS. Recommended diodes? wattage? Other products that are battery powered are welcome I.E Fans, cheap battery packs and that sort. Looked everywhere myself but looking for 50-100$ all together as an emergancy kit. Lights are hard, heard you want to know the diodes to derermine hang height and for what stage of growth is best suited. Will want to upgrade when I can but it is heavy storm season, where typical outages occure from high winds.

I bought a couple generators
Trying to be there in case anything happens is kinda hopeless
If it’s a small grow interrupting the light cycle a day or two is a nonissue
Unless you are in hydro

Not realistic. Only thing that would work is a generator.

I would get a geni or one of those large battery banks and I would only hook up the ventilation and irrigation. The plants will be fine in darkness.Just gotta keep the environment in acceptable ranges.

pahpah-cee said:

Not realistic. Only thing that would work is a generator.

I would get a geni or one of those large battery banks and I would only hook up the ventilation and irrigation. The plants will be fine in darkness.Just gotta keep the environment in acceptable ranges.

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Hand feed coco perlite daily feed, but tent will be pure dark. I figured a 25W LED would at least keep them in standby mode for a few days or a week. Need so much stuff still and a generator is unaffordable for quite a while, like 800-1200$ for one that will cover the whole op. 500w overall right now. Two spaces.

That is good to hear though, but for sure would need it for clones and seedlings.

They make smaller battery power banks that act as an outlet and kick on when the main source is tripped. They would be good enough to power all of the smaller stuff. I worry about my exhaust going down more than anything else.

medidedicated said:

That is good to hear though, but for sure would need it for clones and seedlings.

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No you don’t
They could survive almost any outage

Herb & Suds said:

No you don’t
They could survive almost any outage

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I mean freshly germinated where they have a few days they can stretch to death lol.

Or like my bagseed that is already critical to enviorment conditions, shoot, when the true leaves are white, to me that is a 75% chance of fatality, but last time I misread EC meter, maybe it sucked the water out if the seedling, RO in reverse lol. Will post a journal if they make it.

medidedicated said:

I mean freshly germinated where they have a few days they can stretch to death lol.

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You could just move the tray to a window. They don't need very much light to be happy.

also with power banks it is hard to find a light that matches its capability. Banks that run out way too fast or lights that aren’t suitible for plants. IE flood light spectrum like lights. Was just asking before I take another jab at it.

Was going to post thread asking for the diodes for space buckets, for rough example I recall 50/20 diodes being good or bad and the other is what you need and then the resolution so it can be 2” from plants.


This is what can make all purpose LEDs for fun projects or emergancy lights until you get a 7 day running power bank or two if them. Or just a gas generator but again, 1200$ lol. Not hard to get roomates to go in if that is your situation, people follow the electricity in outages haha.

My thinking is even if you spent $500 on a decent battery bank or generator the transition the plants would undergo from a 400watt LED to a 50 watt LED is going to be dramatic. That would be 1/8 of the daily light input the plant typically receives.

sure you can scale this up do more lights and more power. Totally doable. You could Invest in a massive solar battery bank and never worry about an outage again. Off grid grow room, that would be amazing.

I’m going the complete opposite direction. I run a sealed room in my garage. I would probably buy a few of those power tool battery operated fans (runs off 18V) and open my doors to allow fresh air to move through my canopy. If the power outage was more than a day (realistically I probably wouldn’t give a shit about my plants anymore and would be in survival mode for my family) I would probably just haul all my plants outdoors and give them some sun.

pahpah-cee said:

My thinking is even if you spent $500 on a decent battery bank or generator the transition the plants would undergo from a 400watt LED to a 50 watt LED is going to be dramatic. That would be 1/8 of the daily light input the plant typically receives.

sure you can scale this up do more lights and more power. Totally doable. You could Invest in a massive solar battery bank and never worry about an outage again. Off grid grow room, that would be amazing.

I’m going the complete opposite direction. I run a sealed room in my garage. I would probably buy a few of those power tool battery operated fans (runs off 18V) and open my doors to allow fresh air to move through my canopy. If the power outage was more than a day (realistically I probably wouldn’t give a shit about my plants anymore and would be in survival mode for my family) I would probably just haul all my plants outdoors and give them some sun.

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I meant 500w as in all together with fans and mini fans and all lights but will go up to 1000 soon. The power tool batery fan sounds cool. Yeah it would be that or no light at all for however long it is out for. I figured it would be kind of like it it was a dark cloudy day in outdoor setting, that it would give them less to stress about.

As someone who recently had a huge power outage in their city (200,000 with out and still had 53,000 still with out power 4 days later)and having plants in 76 hours of darkness myself. Also having multiple online friends in the same boat. Lighting is the least of your problems. The outages in my city ranged 4 hours to 12 days from growers I know. No one lost plant's due to lack of light. All lost plants to other reason other than lack of light.

I would say the number one problem was not watering their plants. Plants still drink in the darkness.
Also not being able to water their plant either.
I have multiple Battery-Operated Pumps that uses D batteries. It made it much easier to water with no power.

Google "Battery-Operated Pump"

I would never bring my plants outside and then bring them back in. That is just asking for all sorts of potential problems. If they really needed light then use a window. If the must go outside, they should never ever come back in.

Plants can go 5-6 days with no light. It's the other things like watering your plants, having air flow (batterie or rechargeable fans), controlling the humidity and heat.
I had previously purchased a rechargeable fan from vivison I would rate it garbage as a regular grow tent fan but in a power outage it does it's job only for around 6 hours on low before having to charge it. It charges by usb so a car can do it but I would do it at my work.

Heat could be a big problem too.

Also remember when 20% of your city goes with out power, batteries become harder to find.
Cheers
CCG