never got around to growing with them, but always wanted too, always wondered how positioning the bulb would work out, as surely your losing nearly 50% of the PLLs surface area if you have them flat face to the plant;
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I have rewired my ballast 6 times and it still blinks but won't come on! Aaugh!
I must be forgetting something silly, but I do not know what!
Keep it going Boleman - there's a lot of us still rockin' the PLL's.
The cause of this problem was wore out old 4pin sockets. I bought new ones, and they should be here soon. The girls have roots... Will post pics when lights are back on.
Still puzzling you then Boleman? The blinking lights I mean? Hav ethis problem with one of my ballasts and narrowed it down to using too thick a wire to cconnect it to the 2g11's. That little extra just prevented it from snapping into the connectot on the ballast nicely. Wierd cos the same wire causes no problems with my other ballasts, one of which is for the same wattage but an older, slightly differently design (though they're all Osram Quicktronic) nor even in the other connector sockets on the same ballast - only in the live slot. Eventually solved it not by changing the wire but just making sure that it's positioned to run down into the connector so as not to exert any pull on it. Bit of insulation tape around it to hold it in place and bob's yer uncle.
Your problem is probably different so this is just me gassing!
this is probably more of a general grow question, but i'm planning on using PL-L's, so it sorta works. i want to use 3 55w lamps. initially i was thinking 3 6500k lamps for veg and then switch to 3 2700k (or 3000k, depending on what i can find) for flower. is this the way to go, or would a mixture of spectrums be better?
PL-Ls have more penetration than I ever would have expected, and if you keep them too close to the plants, you wind up with these squat little bushes with internodes so tight that it actually makes the eventual LSTing or scrogging more difficult.