Suddenly 3 weeks left...and fuses are popping !

Phytium hater

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I pretty much have the same equipment as been for the beginning of the bloom, but now suddenly something is blowing my fuses ..I did spread even more of the power usage from different rooms....there is so much of extension cords that its hard to have any clue what is what ,,but there is regarding lights always 2 x 600w/extension cord...can't go around that because I am using few of the double switch box timer what is always per box 2 x 6oow hps...other extension cords have 8 fans + 4 x water pumps ..few chillers..2 x 800cfm exhaust + 350 cfm intake fan...tower fan..
They all worked ok the way they where connected but suddenly now 2.5 weeks left of flowering the fuses started to pop..!?
 

justugh

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I pretty much have the same equipment as been for the beginning of the bloom, but now suddenly something is blowing my fuses ..I did spread even more of the power usage from different rooms....there is so much of extension cords that its hard to have any clue what is what ,,but there is regarding lights always 2 x 600w/extension cord...can't go around that because I am using few of the double switch box timer what is always per box 2 x 6oow hps...other extension cords have 8 fans + 4 x water pumps ..few chillers..2 x 800cfm exhaust + 350 cfm intake fan...tower fan..
They all worked ok the way they where connected but suddenly now 2.5 weeks left of flowering the fuses started to pop..!?

it is the heat ...........the heat is cuasing the breakers to pop

u will need to do a rework and change the breakers that are on lights to 1 light per breaker ......that way the amp drawl is low enough the heat factor is not enough to trip them

when u fire up HID lights the start amp drawl is higher then the running amp drawl .......take those 2 hids off the same circut
 

Phytium hater

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Thanks, I try first everything else...because I always have had cheap timers with dam problems ...now I have proper switch box with timers ..like I said 2 light per box where is the timer....the fuses been popping after the lights been 10 hour on already withouht problems...then suddenly puff...anyway I made one change taking the some of the fans away from one group and it seemed working ...but lets see next night what happen.....I would hate to take my small timers for couple of lights because if they fail the fuckers leaves the lights on instead of off...happened too many times already...also this grow..
 

Phytium hater

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So to go thru all sockets ,one by one and with the equipment loaded per socket and check with the meter what is the load per socket...
I can even consider to get one sometime , but now its a daily problem + its a weekend..I have tried to rearrange the loads..but still
at some point of the night the fuses have gone...of course its just a switch in a switch board to turn back up...so no old school fuses..
but the plants are like 3 weeks left and they are getting dark periods every day in their light period, like 30 min.-4 hours, and I have wake up constantly to check if it have occurred ...fuck !
I have nearly run out of sockets and there is just a way too much of piles of extension cord tangles around...
 

oteymut

Member
you don't have any of the extension cords coiled up do you? like on a reel?

this is what happens when you put a lot of current through a coiled extension cord. The cause is a part of AC circuits called inductive reactance.
 

Phytium hater

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No, Hell no....not like that...+ I found my reason ..now everything is working perfect again.....after I had done some new fan installation and extension cord stuff I had plugged one extension to the other and there was too much stuff left together what I didn't notice ...now all is perfectly spread and working...
 
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