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a lot of ballast wont fire the bulb for 15 minutes after a power interruption...you need to see how many circuits your apartment has and split your power users to separate circuits...in your home fire is not your friend...get it fixed or call some one to fix it...peace
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i wouldnt grow there...shit i wouldnt live there...but i have lost all i own to fire a few times...be careful my friend..peace
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If you are gonna keep your grow there are a few things you can check and do. If you don't know how, go to Home Depot or Lowes and get a book on Basic Electrical Wiring. Get a Polarity checker too. Replacement outlets are cheap too. Buy a couple just in case. They are cheap.
You should then check every electrical outlet in the apartment. Make sure every connection is tight and the outlet is wired correctly. Sounds like anything is possible in that apartment, but normally your outlet will have a gold colored screw/terminal, a silver colored terminal, and green one for the ground wire. Don't hold me to that because if the place is old and/or poorly maintained, anything is possible.
The outlet should have the black(hot) wire going to the gold terminal and the white(neutral) going to the silver terminal. If a green or bare wire is there, it goes on the ground terminal. The hot wire may not be black. It could be red, blue, orange. The neutral should always be white though. Make sure everything is correct. Look for signs of excessive heat and/or arcing.
You should check the connections in your circuit breaker panel too. Make sure every connection is good and tight. Look for signs of arcing on these terminals and connections too.
You can do all this yourself. At least you'll know that part is OK.
I had a house fire caused by a defective electrical device 20 years ago. You don't want a fire, especially if you're growing.
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You should then check every electrical outlet in the apartment. Make sure every connection is tight and the outlet is wired correctly. Sounds like anything is possible in that apartment, but normally your outlet will have a gold colored screw/terminal, a silver colored terminal, and green one for the ground wire. Don't hold me to that because if the place is old and/or poorly maintained, anything is possible.
The outlet should have the black(hot) wire going to the gold terminal and the white(neutral) going to the silver terminal. If a green or bare wire is there, it goes on the ground terminal. The hot wire may not be black. It could be red, blue, orange. The neutral should always be white though. Make sure everything is correct. Look for signs of excessive heat and/or arcing.
You should check the connections in your circuit breaker panel too. Make sure every connection is good and tight. Look for signs of arcing on these terminals and connections too.
You can do all this yourself. At least you'll know that part is OK.
I had a house fire caused by a defective electrical device 20 years ago. You don't want a fire, especially if you're growing.
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In a lot of apt and home wiring the romex jockeys will mix lighting and power circuits,quite retarded and avoidable with slightly higher costs and labor.This results in lights dimming whenever something is plugged into a power ouitlet.Rather than run HID's on existing circuits,I'd run a circuit to the grow area even if it were a surface mounted run of romex taped to the wall!It would be much safer IMO.Of course a properly run circuit through the attic or crawlspace and down the wall is preferable,but a surface mount new circuit would be better than depending on already overloaded plightling circuits.Or is that lipower circuits,take yopur pick lol
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if the lights dimmed all over town at the same time your probably fine. ive had that happen to me during storms and power surges. your light needed to sit for 15 min. before it was fired back up to turn on all the way.
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Check the voltage at the breaker box if it is low there call pge and tell them to fix there dam lines. I found out with one of my places that the wire from pge to the house was almost litterly falling off and had the same probs as you, as each light turned on incandesants dimmed and floro's stopped working.
