New Beginnings for Massachussetts and I
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HideousPenguinBoy
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I'm running 18 gauge solid. The driver acting weird has a 7' line from the lights to the driver board. All other drivers are working fine, including the ones with a 10' line (2.23% loss, if I'm right about 36v at 6.3A), though their cases are too hot to rest your hand on. (Really need to get a temp laser)
Failure is faster when the driver is already hot. I'm thinking it's over heating... Based on not very much. Ran a fan on the driver and it ran for 12 minutes.
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Bountykiller420
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Are they wired in series or parallel? 6.3a would prob mean parallel, how many chips are on the driver? not sure of your setup but check your wiring, is it possible you connected positive side of the wire to the negative terminal on the cob? or maybe connected the chip backwards on the ideal holders? do you have a amp meter to see what kind of current your drawing? check everything and make sure you wired it right, its easy to make a simple wiring mistake, i soldered the power plug wrong on my buddies rig i built him....twice...first time was line Voltage to nuetral and second time i soldered the line voltage to the ground... wtf!!! lol and had to redo it, thats what i get for being super high doing electrical lol, but i always check my wiring multiple times before i plug it in to test, i gotta make sure i dont make any mistakes
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Now I feel bad about my poor little white widow Auto at 49 days old. She will never get that big.
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HideousPenguinBoy
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Series, cobs needing 36 forward volts at 1050mA. I was just tired/frustrated and saying the wrong things. Went over the wiring with a fine toothed comb and used the driver on a different set of cobs just in case. Same problem, so driver specific. Checked the wiring to the power cable as well. I'm going to hit it with a multimeter today after a drug test for a job.
Thank you for the troubleshooting help, bounty and bos!
BabyAndaconda420
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Hydro
Bosgrower
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6.3A ???? From the driver???? That would reduce your COBs to a molten pile of slag !!! I hope that was at the wall
What driver is it? Knowing the specs would help. Also, you should probably consider running 16 gauge to and from the fixture and just using the 18 between COBs.
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Creature1969
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Heh! My first grow is mediocre at best and I'm already setting up a coco hempy bucket with an air dome (ala autopots) buried in 2.5" of large, chunky perlite.
Ya know, for science!
ttystikk
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If the nutes are in the water, it IS hydro.
be4meliz
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Welcome back- thought you gave up on all the downtime Lol
be4meliz
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So ,ttystikk, Any thoughts on tric timing? My 62 year old eyes are trying to turn clear ones to cloudy and amber- actually @ about 30-40 percent milky- how fast would the changeover occur? Days,weeks? Trying to time cutdown just right.Have 30 power loupe, but hard time judging.
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Okay now I'm confused. You're saying after flowering, soil grows are hydro grows? Or only when the nutes are not organic?
I thought hand watered Coco was not considered Hydroponics.
ttystikk
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Chop early for racier high, chop later for more CBD.
ttystikk
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This is a basic definition thing: if the nutrients are mixed with water before introducing them to the plants, then it's called hydroponics. Substrate doesn't matter. If the nutrients are mixed into the soil and the water has no nutes in it, then it's not hydro.
The difference is that the nutes have to be water soluble to add them to the water. Since plants only take up nutes in water soluble form, this means the nutes are completely available.
Organics means the micro herd is breaking down insoluble forms of nutrients into water soluble forms for the plants.
Bosgrower
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This is one of the strangest things I've ever seen turn on the sound if it's off
https://twitter.com/TheReal_JDavis/status/837301561500057605
https://twitter.com/TheReal_JDavis/status/837301561500057605
ttystikk
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Turkeys walk the line. Must be Johnny Cash fans.
Worcester
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Young wooper snapper....