burninheavy420
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do they sell adjustable chains you can install to a hood? Juz wonderin cuz my boy got a deal on some lights and has nothin to hang em with..burn one!
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adjustable chains
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yamaha_1fan
String/rope through some eyelets in the ceiling tied to cleats for easy up/down.
To be real anal you could use chain the first 6" for heat then go to string/rope. MY hoods have these hangars on them that I attached my string to.
I dont know at what point/thickness string technically becomes rope so just use something strong enough to hold the hood.
They also sell a few adjustable kits but an eyelet is much cheaper.
To be real anal you could use chain the first 6" for heat then go to string/rope. MY hoods have these hangars on them that I attached my string to.
I dont know at what point/thickness string technically becomes rope so just use something strong enough to hold the hood.
They also sell a few adjustable kits but an eyelet is much cheaper.
yamaha_1fan said:
LOL - I've got my lights hung from chains in cabs and when I read the original post I thought, "wtf is he talking about?" It never occurred to me he might want to hang the lights from the ceiling.
That sounds like a pretty easy and effective way to hang lights from up high.
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burninheavy420
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yeah it's goin into a ceiling...what exactly is an eyelet? the hook lookin things but not really..lol dunno how else to describe em
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yamaha_1fan
burninheavy420 said:
Its a screw with a loop on the end. Screw TWO it into the ceiling for every light. Attach rope to hood on each end, run through eyelet, pull rope until hood is level and where you want it, then tie rope off somewhere. I use cleats mounted to the table, like what is on boats and boat docks. They sell small ones at Home Depot and you just wrap the rope around the cleat, flipping the rope the last loop.
One table uses rope, the other two use chains. As soon as those tables come down, they are getting rope and cleats. The chains were a bitch to adjust last night
Brain lab, how do those work? Do you have to get to the unit to adjust them? or can you adjust them without having to get on a ladder?
yamaha_1fan said:
^^^^ah yes, the grow-yo's / yo-yo's... how come everybody doesnt use these. you hang them from an eyelet, tighten the pulley thing to the desired tightness, and it allows you to raise the hoods with a gentle lift and lower them with a gentle pull and they will magically stay in the same position you left them.
how the fuck do they really work? i dont know, im high. don't care.
probably best invention ever for hangning lights.. i'm done with chains and adjustments forever
just go to any hydro shop and ask them for yo-yos, they are cheap
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rabid
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The reason everyone doesn't use them is because they are far from failure-proof. I bought a pair and took a good look and returned them to the store.
All it takes is the friction plate to slip or the threads on the screw/wingnut to strip and the light assembly will fall onto the plants. Not a good thing...
Those yo-yo's are aptly-named. TOYS...
All it takes is the friction plate to slip or the threads on the screw/wingnut to strip and the light assembly will fall onto the plants. Not a good thing...
Those yo-yo's are aptly-named. TOYS...
freeradical
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I just use chains with 'eyelets' with a long thread screwed into a cieling stud, I use an S hook to attach the chain to the eyelet and the hood. Works fine, and easily adjustable.
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selfprofider
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I have used the yo-yo's and think they are great and esay to adjust the lights with. But mostly on floresent lights (wouldn/t do without them). They are not strong enought to hold approx 20lbs so with my 1000w Hps and hood I just have a eye bolt on the ceiling with a rope attatched to the light ran through the eye bolt and sequred to anather eye bolt on the wall. As I said yo-yo's have been great for what I need with my 4" flo's Here are some on ebay I paid $10.00/pr so look around if interested
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MrMortakis$moot
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these are pretty awesome, will be using them on my next one. these are rated for 150lbs, but they do have 250lbs ones. very easy to adjust UP .. to adjust down to have to push a lever to release the rope. and for the fail proof, I've used these plenty of times strapping stuff down in the back of a truck and going 90 down the interstate. 
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/1DJN8
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/items/1DJN8
