Lighting Tripping The Circuit

[ThaGreenBandit]

Since everyone was so helpful, I figured I'd drop by and give an update. So, I called the company, provided the details, and requested a refund. 2 hours later, I was begrudgingly told I would get a refund after I paid to ship the lights back. Fine. I was gonna take care of that this weekend, BUT, some way, some how, it turns out, I don't need to. First, I got a slip from UPS stating that they attempted to deliver a package. Weird, I wasn't expecting anything. Got to the UPS pickup, and an additional unit was waiting for me! Hmmm, let me check my account to make sure they didn't screw me, and sell me a unit I didn't buy. Nothing. Cool wit me! I'll just send the lights back that I paid for, and keep the gift they sent me! After all, their customer service was crazy crappy, and, dealing with them, I'm damn near a month in my grow without my supplemental lighting, which I wanted to use from the gitty up! So, I'm planning on packing up two of the units to send them back for my refund, BUT I get to work today, check my personal email and see that, low and behold, I received a full refund last night! So now I have 3 lighting units AND a full refund! Winner, winner, chicken dinner!! So now, when I have the time, I'm gonna take the lights to an electronics shop and have them take a look at what's going on, and see if they can apply some sort of fix at a low cost. Once that's done, I'll keep them for future use in the grow room, or give them to my homie, who is slowly working towards gearing up for his first grow. I figure I'll pay it forward n all that good stuff. In the meantime, in between time, I took A4's advise and placed an order with Sunlight Supply for two of their Sunblaster 904296 NanoTech T5 High Output Fixture Reflector Combo, 2-Feet units. I'm about to get my watts up something serious, folks! Got another 400w Mars II panel waiting for pick up at UPS, and got 4 6500 t5HO bulbs on the way. Where my shades at, yo?!

 

[Truu]

Man I wish I could help ya out bro. I could put you some new ballast in and wire it up to make it work. Sweet deal on the free lights lol.

 

[JAYAR]

Hey bro when ur home try this out and see if you're overloading the circuit. I forgot who mentioned this but you shouldnt exceed 80% of total amp.

Turn on all the lights in every room/closet and turn on some lamps if u can. Then go to ur circuit breaker box and start shutting each one off one by one.. check to see which lights are off and then write down which circuits control which rooms. In american apartments they're usually 15 amp limit circuits and a couple 30 amp circuit for the washer/dryer.

When i lived in an apartment i had a powerful system running close to 15 amps and had to plug half of it into the other bedroom with an extension to split the load onto two circuits. Just fyi bro.

You gotta account for all the miscellaneous devices too like your ceiling fan/lights, tv, radio, ps4 etc. The stuff adds up!



edit.. Let me clarify this bro.. when u plug stuff into different outlets, its not necessarily a different circuit.. You must check for each circuit thru your breaker one by one to know for sure how the circuitry is divided.