A plee for your health

[big ballin 88]

Stacking sunglasses doesnt compare at all to the shade 5 welding goggles i feel. I used to stack 2 pairs of sunglasses and still came out feeling like the bulb was killing me.

 

[Sandnut]

eye protection for hps?

eye protection for hps?

I noticed everytime i was doing some work in the grow cab my eyes hurted really bad cause of the strong lights, and afterwards it took a couple of mins to retain sight to normal level,

im currently using sunglasses which im overlapping to save my eyes but i can hardly see what im doing , and if i just use 1pair of sunglasses i'll still get irritated eyes..

im currently just using cfls and when im stepping up to the 400w hps im really gonna need a solution for this, what do you guys use when you gotta do work when lights are on?? are there any special glasses for this purpose?

 

[Mitch Connor]

I didnt use any protection for the first few weeks after that I couldn't take it. I borrowed my gramps' old welding mask, makes me feel like I'm workin in a space station Q(''Q)

 

[GMT]

lol a big floppy sun hat.

 

[BPJR]

I never enter my grow without UV protected sunglass on. Have about 4-5 pair sitting near the entrance as well as some floppy hats. I figure the cumulative effect over years of growing has got to be very bad for your eyes.

Lowes or Home Depot have good cheap options.

 

[smokeymacpot]

um why do you not have a reflector ? the only way you get blinded is if you look at the bulb.

 

[Sandnut]

um why do you not have a reflector ? the only way you get blinded is if you look at the bulb.

i grow vertical

 

[pokergod]

There was a great thread about protecting your eyes, get welding googles #5 shade. They work great you can even look at the bulb without causing sensory overload.

 

[mikeross]

I'm using some versace glasses I use to rock back in the day... the girls in the room think I look gangsta lol.

Seriously though I am gonna buy some of these... just got to track them down locally.

 

[mikeross]

^^^^^ those are sick because you can flip the protective lenses up when you need to get a better look at whats your during. Like while doing leaf cleanups ect.

 

[JacuzziSplot]

I have been thinking about this lately too. If I am working in my cabinet with a 400w hps for more than 15 mins the room seems pitch black once I close the cab even with all the lights on and an hour later my eyes feel like they are sunburned.

 

[IwannatokeNbone]

if u run a blue enhanced hps id be even more cautious, there a sticky on the damage one grower had running a vertical circular witha mh bulb, really fucked his eyes up for life, i sun gaze , and im up to 30 plus minutes, my eyes are great but even looking at a 150hps for a second tells me something isnt so good here and that its a bad idea to expose your eyes to it, were a hat in your rooms or some glasses and never look at mh bulbs with all that uv n blueish light, terrible for your eyes, if u squint u should be looking at the source of light that makes u squint.

 

[guest121295]

Regular horizontal growing doesn't really bother me but vertical bulbs are an entire irritation unto themselves, you just have to wear glasses. I'm no doctor, believe that, but I know when my eyes hurt!! I'm the only long term chronic repeat cultivator I know who's been around 1000W lamps for over 25 yrs and I can still see but things aren't getting any better.... I just don't know anybody to compare myself with...

 

[couchlockd]

my dog scratched my eye one day and it felt like i wanted to die it hurt sooo bad.

i ended up sitting in bed unable to sleep with my eyes slammed shut.

then i remembered i have to do somme work in the room. i get up and know itsw gonna be a pain, so i use the "unpoked" eye, as i thought it would be okay. WRONG. it felt like some one punched me in the face when i opened that door. i then tried my eye that was injured and i fell over.

untill that day i never thought of the possibility that i should protect my eyes. now i do i use my welding mask that is auto dimming with a #5 shade.

 

[Rysam]

You can get a pair of cutting torch goggles like the flip up ones above for less than 10 bucks. I got mine at ACE hardware for 7.99 Oh, they work good for cutting metal too.

 

[guest121295]

I've been welding on boats for years and regular 4 hr welding runs on aluminun with a TIG gun are nothing compared to what my eyes feel like after my 1st summer of vert. My yields were off the charts but my eyeballs are in a wheelchair!! I just can't see the plants well enough with any welding specs, so I'm leaning back to flat lighting but some of the bombass buds I had make me hesitate....

 

[whodair]

i can barely enter my verti room when lit, so less time spent in the grow is less chances of me screwing things up !!

 

[guest121295]

Ha!! That's a good one.

 

[ugmjfarmer]

As you are all probably growers of a material that reduces inter-ocular pressure with the quickness, and cures cancer and various other diseases: I would recomend adding to the eye protection a healthy diet of simpson oil and carrots.

Seriously you all grow medicine, now use it some more (like pot growers need an excuse to smoke more right?)

 

[Bueno Time]

I agree that horizontal lights arent too bad for the eyes but man do the vertical ones ever make you see spots for minutes after exposure. I got myself some of the shade 5 welding glasses off Amazon . com and they are great I still try not to look at the arc tube still with them on but definitely worth the $11-13 dollars I paid!