DrCaligari
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hey dudes and dudettes,
During week 7 of flower, I enter "the room" to find 1 out 2 of my 1000w lights shut-off, my portable A/C off, and my exhaust fan off. All girls severely suffering from heat and a panic attack quickly overcoming me. I realize power is lost to one of the quad metal boxes.
I caught the problem in enough time to save my efforts, and finished the cycle (over the next few weeks).. just not with the intended 2000w.
Before the next flower cycle, the non-electric needs to be remedied.
When the room was being designed electricity was a major concern, therefore I had an electrician come out and set up what was needed.
It was a bitch! The goal was to get 40 amps to a third floor townhouse closet. The floors are concrete, so he couldn't route any wires through, and the position of the breaker (only breaker in the house, on first floor in tough spot) didn't allow for wall routing either. He used the line from the breaker that goes out to the air conditioning unit outside to route the wires up the side of the back of the townhome, drilled through concrete, and into the closet that way. The guy was brilliant.
He set up two quad metal boxes, one on top of the other.
Since there were no extra breaker slots available to dedicate the power, he replaced the houses A/C unit breaker with a breaker that had double the amps and ran the closet outlets off the newly replaced breaker. Therefore, the home A/C unit shares power with the 2 quad boxes upstairs.
That is the situation. To sum it all up, there is one quad not working (the top quad) but the other does, and the a/c unit for the home works just fine. So I assumed since the breaker clearly works the outlets may have died? I changed them and nada. I bought a volt checker.. no readings -- I may be ignorant on how to use it although I did read the directions and gave it my best.
What do I do? What other information do you need? What pictures do you need? When it comes to electricity I am simply at a loss.
During week 7 of flower, I enter "the room" to find 1 out 2 of my 1000w lights shut-off, my portable A/C off, and my exhaust fan off. All girls severely suffering from heat and a panic attack quickly overcoming me. I realize power is lost to one of the quad metal boxes.
I caught the problem in enough time to save my efforts, and finished the cycle (over the next few weeks).. just not with the intended 2000w.
Before the next flower cycle, the non-electric needs to be remedied.
When the room was being designed electricity was a major concern, therefore I had an electrician come out and set up what was needed.
It was a bitch! The goal was to get 40 amps to a third floor townhouse closet. The floors are concrete, so he couldn't route any wires through, and the position of the breaker (only breaker in the house, on first floor in tough spot) didn't allow for wall routing either. He used the line from the breaker that goes out to the air conditioning unit outside to route the wires up the side of the back of the townhome, drilled through concrete, and into the closet that way. The guy was brilliant.
He set up two quad metal boxes, one on top of the other.
Since there were no extra breaker slots available to dedicate the power, he replaced the houses A/C unit breaker with a breaker that had double the amps and ran the closet outlets off the newly replaced breaker. Therefore, the home A/C unit shares power with the 2 quad boxes upstairs.
That is the situation. To sum it all up, there is one quad not working (the top quad) but the other does, and the a/c unit for the home works just fine. So I assumed since the breaker clearly works the outlets may have died? I changed them and nada. I bought a volt checker.. no readings -- I may be ignorant on how to use it although I did read the directions and gave it my best.
What do I do? What other information do you need? What pictures do you need? When it comes to electricity I am simply at a loss.
