Ballast on tent floor inches from saucer - drain to waste - PLEASE TALK SOME SENSE INTO MY FRIEND!

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Rooster99

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I have a buddy who is currently growing in a small tent with a 400w hps. Drain to waste with perlite with a big saucer to catch the overflow. Fed by a pump that they manually control.

He has the ballast for the HPS just sitting on the ground. Like 6 inches away from one of the above saucer.

Despite my desperate attempts to get him to take it seriously, he stubbornly refuses to move it. I have tried warning him so many times that his house is one small accident away from burning down or he will kill himself going into the tent one day cause of some kind of mistake. "It will be fine - I control the water so I am right here" "House is still standing and ive been doing it this way for a while (6 months)". I am starting to think that he now keeping it there cause he knows it makes me so uncomfortable.
"You'll be making me wear a safety harness before I walk in before I know it" etc etc.

Honest opinion - Am I overreacting? Or is this guy doing something REALLY fucking stupid - I'm pretty sure it's the latter but my friend seems to think I am just some kind of Safety Inspector Party Pooper or something. (I already know the answer I just need some more opinions from more "professional" guys to back me up)
 
go go kid

go go kid

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get some pollystyrene packing and build a stand for it at least, but dont cover up any of the cooling vents.
you can get some pollythene and cable tie it to the power cable and the light cable and tape them up, but you have to cut a hole in the plastic as it has to allow aitr into the vents again, just cut it oit until its just a priotective cover. these ate onlty preventative measures if he refuses too [ut it up on a shelf, which is outside the tent, its easy to add more cable to the power chord, the light cable should be long enough
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Southernontariogrower

Southernontariogrower

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Rooster99 said:
I have a buddy who is currently growing in a small tent with a 400w hps. Drain to waste with perlite with a big saucer to catch the overflow. Fed by a pump that they manually control.

He has the ballast for the HPS just sitting on the ground. Like 6 inches away from one of the above saucer.

Despite my desperate attempts to get him to take it seriously, he stubbornly refuses to move it. I have tried warning him so many times that his house is one small accident away from burning down or he will kill himself going into the tent one day cause of some kind of mistake. "It will be fine - I control the water so I am right here" "House is still standing and ive been doing it this way for a while (6 months)". I am starting to think that he now keeping it there cause he knows it makes me so uncomfortable.
"You'll be making me wear a safety harness before I walk in before I know it" etc etc.

Honest opinion - Am I overreacting? Or is this guy doing something REALLY fucking stupid - I'm pretty sure it's the latter but my friend seems to think I am just some kind of Safety Inspector Party Pooper or something. (I already know the answer I just need some more opinions from more "professional" guys to back me up)
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When l first started growing, a wise man told me water below waist hydro above. Simple to the point, rerely followed. Dangerous practice with hid magnetic ballasts. People put on floor, res breaks, fire explosion oh shit wheres my house.
 
Southernontariogrower

Southernontariogrower

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Rooster99 said:
I have a buddy who is currently growing in a small tent with a 400w hps. Drain to waste with perlite with a big saucer to catch the overflow. Fed by a pump that they manually control.

He has the ballast for the HPS just sitting on the ground. Like 6 inches away from one of the above saucer.

Despite my desperate attempts to get him to take it seriously, he stubbornly refuses to move it. I have tried warning him so many times that his house is one small accident away from burning down or he will kill himself going into the tent one day cause of some kind of mistake. "It will be fine - I control the water so I am right here" "House is still standing and ive been doing it this way for a while (6 months)". I am starting to think that he now keeping it there cause he knows it makes me so uncomfortable.
"You'll be making me wear a safety harness before I walk in before I know it" etc etc.

Honest opinion - Am I overreacting? Or is this guy doing something REALLY fucking stupid - I'm pretty sure it's the latter but my friend seems to think I am just some kind of Safety Inspector Party Pooper or something. (I already know the answer I just need some more opinions from more "professional" guys to back me up)
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Your not overreacting at all, concerned, tell him to get it out of tent and on chair! Hope he dont have kids doing shit like that. Commented already on this.
 
green_machine_two9er

green_machine_two9er

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Common sense. Unless he has children in the house, then live snd let live. Lol. People do slot of stupid shit snd survive all the time. Odds are in his favor
 
TWOMP

TWOMP

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Three houses caught on fire in my neighborhood yesterday. It smells like electrical fire and they don’t know how it started. They had about 24 engines and 80 firefighters out there it was intense to say the least. Show him the pictures
 

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xtsho

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TWOMP said:
Three houses caught on fire in my neighborhood yesterday. It smells like electrical fire and they don’t know how it started. They had about 24 engines and 80 firefighters out there it was intense to say the least. Show him the pictures
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Some kind of crazy power surge? Looks like those two houses are coming off the same line.
 
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TheWholeTruth

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My friend unknowingly was living next to a grow someone was doing next door in the uper floor. Turned out they were doing the same. My friend found thout out when he had to run out of his house with his wife and two children (both under 5) at 4.00 am because his roof was on fire. Went outside and all the uper floors of next door were ablaze including the atic which was joint to his and had caused his to go up. Turns out it was caused by the same thing as your mate is doing. Believe me the landlord of next door weren't to happy when he found out what happened and what his tenants had been doing. He ended up having to pay a lot of money to repair everything at my mates house and the one joint to the other side too
 
Star Dog

Star Dog

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I can understand your concern if it's a friend but you've voiced your concern there's not much more you can do.
I think your right in that it's a accident waiting to happen and not over reacting, the mere chance that it could happen should enough to make him prevent it, I can't understand his attitude.
Common sense isn't so common :D
 
TWOMP

TWOMP

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xtsho said:
Some kind of crazy power surge? Looks like those two houses are coming off the same line.
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The fire started in the garage i think, it then burned the power line down and that landed on another house and arc out on the roof and that house caught on fire, and then spred to the pool house burned that down along with the fence and the attic of the next door It was windy too
 
xtsho

xtsho

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TWOMP said:
The fire started in the garage i think, it then burned the power line down and that landed on another house and arc out on the roof and that house caught on fire, and then spred to the pool house burned that down along with the fence and the attic of the next door It was windy too
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That's crazy.
 
Roy O'Bannon

Roy O'Bannon

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Just don't set in on a combustible or melty material. The block would be an easy way, maybe you can use his head?
 
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