Something happened to light fixture in my growroom

We were in the process of going from vedge to flower and changing timer settings and changing out metal halide lights to flowering lights when something happened to our light fixture and would not turn on.

It is a $400 fixture and we have receipt....we are taking it to the store to get another one but are worried about our plants....

If we get this back in today will it negatively affect them? We had just done the "photoperiod" thing where you turn the lights out on them for some time before going to 12 and 12.

This happen to anybody here?

Got any cfls or fluoresecent you can put them on till you get your light fixed.It will not hurt them, the sun dose not shine every day,some times cloudy days,rainy days,but the cfls will work till you get your light back.you will be ok.
PEACE

Tokecrazy said:

Got any cfls or fluoresecent you can put them on till you get your light fixed.It will not hurt them, the sun dose not shine every day,some times cloudy days,rainy days,but the cfls will work till you get your light back.you will be ok.
PEACE

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I think we will have this all back together and on the same day.

I looked back at your posts to try to see if you have a switchable ballast or not. I see you say you have "800 watts of MH" on 'em...but no other info is given that I saw about the type of ballast you own.

If they're MH ballasts and you put hps lamps in 'em...well..you coulda fried some internal parts and are actully lucky that they didn't EXPLODE and blast hot shards of glass all over the place. (not pretty!)

If it's a switchable ballast..chances are good the switch FRIED. This is a very common thing on those types of ballasts...

time will tell. The store will know what you have/what happened.

good luck

bt dt

I guess the answer ended up being that we tried to put a bulb into a fixture that it was not meant for (so it didn't turn on)

This was not explained to us by the store that we bought it from....we thought that both of the fixtures were the same when they were not.

the remedy for this was we bought a $80 dollar hps bulb that gives off the spectrum of the phos bulb we were attempting to put in....

Still running 800 wats of phos light for flowering....problem solved (I think)

Cowart69 said:

I guess the answer ended up being that we tried to put a bulb into a fixture that it was not meant for (so it didn't turn on)

This was not explained to us by the store that we bought it from....we thought that both of the fixtures were the same when they were not.

the remedy for this was we bought a $80 dollar hps bulb that gives off the spectrum of the phos bulb we were attempting to put in....

Still running 800 wats of phos light for flowering....problem solved (I think)

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Well it's simple matter of, if you don't ask they won't answer. they probably expected you to know that the two ballasts were different when you bought them.

Hey Cowart69 Gald you got the problem fixed.If its working dont fix it.Show a pix of the grils.PEACE