Left lights on for last 24 hours!

Greetings growers! I need your help!!! My timer failed to turn off the lights and my HPS remained On for 24 hours.
Plants are already in 5th week of flowering. WHAT SHOULD I DO? Should i turn the lamp off for the next 24 hours or should i let it run for the full 36 and then turn it off for the normal 12?

Tasos_ggk said:

Greetings growers! I need your help!!! My timer failed to turn off the lights and my HPS remained On for 24 hours.
Plants are already in 5th week of flowering. WHAT SHOULD I DO? Should i turn the lamp off for the next 24 hours or should i let it run for the full 36 and then turn it off for the normal 12?

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Make it dark

Bareback said:

Make it dark

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Dark for the next 12 or 24 hours?

Was the left light off aswell.hahahahaha

You need to snitch out the timer. What brand, kind, where'd you get? Digital or mechanical?

I'm asking as a concerned consumer...fuck that break down. I'm not buying it.

Just resume your light schedule as normal.
Eveything will be fine

That's cuz you set the on/off button to "on" instead of "on auto", probably. But all that will happen is that it will take an extra day to ripen. Doubt you'll even notice it.

BobCajun said:

That's cuz you set the on/off button to "on" instead of "on auto", probably. But all that will happen is that it will take an extra day to ripen. Doubt you'll even notice it.

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Either that or the timer is a cheap Chinese one and it's welded it open on startup. That would be if he is using hid lamps. Used to happen to loads of timers. Then I brought ones with 30amp contacts. Never happened again.

I bought a $15 analog outdoor timer 16 years ago and it's been used continuously for at least 15 of those years. Using it now to run a 1000W MH and it still works great. I scrounged a nice heavy duty timer a while back but it's a 240v one and I need 120 as my light mover is plugged into the same timer and I don't want to try to coordinate 2 timers or screw around re-wiring my magnetic ballast for 240.

One screw-up on your lighting won't hurt the flowering cycle but try not to do it too often.

OldMedUser said:

I bought a $15 analog outdoor timer 16 years ago and it's been used continuously for at least 15 of those years. Using it now to run a 1000W MH and it still works great. I scrounged a nice heavy duty timer a while back but it's a 240v one and I need 120 as my light mover is plugged into the same timer and I don't want to try to coordinate 2 timers or screw around re-wiring my magnetic ballast for 240.

One screw-up on your lighting won't hurt the flowering cycle but try not to do it too often.

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If you're interested you could wire a plug off just one leg of the timer put

Bareback said:

If you're interested you could wire a plug off just one leg of the timer put

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True enough. Just don't want to screw around with that ballast. I'm good with regular house wiring. Bought a basic home wiring manual and ran a 240 line downstairs to split into two duplex 120 plugs with a 15amp breaker on each. Also have a 240 line going in on a 20 amp but going to use that to wire the baseboard heater I mounted and wired for 120 before I realized it was a 240 unit. Just gets warm with 120 lol. Only a 500W heater so I could run the light off it as well.

Thanks. Gives me something to think about.