Clean your glass!

[2buds]

Just a reminder to everyone who has glass covering the bulbs-Clean your glass. Here's a before and after pic showing my glass last nite



I'd say the lumens output just went up and didn't cost a penny.

Keep it green everybody and peace!

 

[Guest]

I clean my daystar Ac glass every week!, I get lots of dust build up on it.

 

[Scientist]

YES, I cleaned mine this monday! This is a must for people who have lots of air moving through a sealed reflector. It's a total dust trap.

happy growin

 

[Guest]

also dont forget to clean your reflectors reflective insert

 

[lemonade]

Yes good tip. I also clean my cooltube every week or so. Makes we wonder how much dust is getting stuck to my buds.

I suppose I really should get around to sealing this concrete floor...

 

[Guest]

I just cleaned my glass SO MUCH MORE LUMENS!!

 

[meduser180056]

That's one of the reasons I stopped using glass and just go bare bulb now.

Fucking dust build up is a bitch in those glassed off reflectors. Weekly cleaning is essential if you want to keep those lumens that are already getting severly cut back just cuz they gotta go thru glass.

Glass reduces lumens. Reflector reduces lumens. Dust reduces lumens.

The bulbs probably putting out less than 75% of what it could be doing.

 

[irie-i]

i put a furnace filter inline, theres a kind that comes unframed for cutting to size. i just staple it to the intake.

 

[Joe A. Grower]

Don't forget to clean the bulbs, too. This is particularly important if you hanging lights vertically between plants without a reflector. You tend to bump into them and leave hair/skin oil on the bulb. Branches whip back as you push past them, leaving resin on the bulb. Bugs land on them and get fried. All sort of miscellaneous crap get stuck to them -- especially if you use a fan or a humidifier. Etc and so on.

Windex and a lint-free cloth seems to take care of things nicely.

 

[vonforne]

i read this thread and went down and cleaned my glass. sooooo much better thanks for the thought.

 

[HIGHGROOVE]

whats the ebst way to clean the reflector glass....as my plants are in flower at this point ideas thanks...without removing the glass fi that makes sense

 

[FreezerBoy]

Easiest way to clean glass is to not let it get dirty to begin with. Filtering your intakes keeps this...


http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=100223&highlight=intakes

from becoming this ...

http://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=113447

 

[T.Baggins]

I try to clean the hoods, fans, ducts, filters, everything b4 I start to flower, its way to hard to do all that with the plants in the room, not to mention that the only time you should be in the flowering room is when the lights are on, so how are you going to clean a lit bulb? thats also a good reason to blow air through your hoods instead of sucking air through them.. assuming you prefilter the air of course...

 

[HIGHGROOVE]

okright on i do push thru and got the intakesbut i notice my glass is dirty is there anything i can clean them with at this point in flower....without removing the glass? and without affecting plants with a chmical

 

[FreezerBoy]

A one time 10 minute glitch in the light schedule will have no effect on the plant. Open the cab 10 minutes early (or 30, or 90, however long it takes) and clean with mild soap and water.

 

[Calimed]

Damn, time to bust out the windex. I just got an air cooled hood a week or so ago so this is very good to know!

 

[Natagonnaworrie]

Good Reminder! Thanks mang. I am going to add that to the 'to do' calender... prob do it every 2 - 3 weeks.

I saw a study on the effectiveness of hoods once. The guy did a comparison with and without glass using a light meter. The glass shield definitly decreased the lumens (can't remember the numbers exactly) - based on this i would think that even a small layer of dirt / dust would make a drastic difference.

remember to let her cool down for a while