Serious lighting question

Greetings all, I'm a long time grower but just recently got back into it. Lately I've been noticing since I started growing again, that the lights in my house along with my grow room have a pulse to them, almost like a heart beat. Now I am running one 125 watt flood light, four 26 watt cfl's, and two florescent 24 inch tube lights. I was wondering if somehow my set up was pulling too much electricity and that's causing the lights to pulsate or if it could be something else. Also during the day the only lights on are in my grow room and on my snakes tank, and at night I turn off all lights once my kids go into bed but this pulsation still happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

SatansGift said:

I was wondering if somehow my set up was pulling too much electricity and that's causing the lights to pulsate or if it could be something else.

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no way, it's something else, maybe a neighbor has strained the electric feed with a grow op.
I've never understood AC current.

I don't think your pulling enough power to have that effect.
I've pulled at least 7,000watts before without a pulsating effect.
But your supply may be different, I don't know.

SatansGift said:

Greetings all, I'm a long time grower but just recently got back into it. Lately I've been noticing since I started growing again, that the lights in my house along with my grow room have a pulse to them, almost like a heart beat. Now I am running one 125 watt flood light, four 26 watt cfl's, and two florescent 24 inch tube lights. I was wondering if somehow my set up was pulling too much electricity and that's causing the lights to pulsate or if it could be something else. Also during the day the only lights on are in my grow room and on my snakes tank, and at night I turn off all lights once my kids go into bed but this pulsation still happens. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Add up your wattages. You're using less than 1/2 the electricity a hair dryer would use. Adequate power isn't the issue.If you overload a circuit you should trip a breaker, not have pulsations. The other poster who said that your neighbor might have a huge grow-op was partly right even though he may have been kidding. However, I doubt his grow-op lights go on and off causing your pulsations. IF you had a large motor (like a compressor, or the compressor in your a/c unit) in your home and it had a locked rotor ( similar to a siezed engine piston) which would cause it to try and start over and over again (drawing lots of current all at once), that could cause a problem but I doubt that is what it is either. Do all the lights in the house "pulsate"?

Yes all the lights pulsate in the house, IDK, this is something beyond my understanding lol. I've never had a problem like this before and I run little electricity outside of the grow room. I mean shit, I don't even run my central A/C unit unless it's unbearably hot. I mean all lights pulsate, I even replaced all bulbs thinkin maybe the bulbs in my house were just old. Hell, maybe my house is haunted, lol, guess I better call ghost hunters or the guys from paranormal state.