So this morning I woke up to fire alarms...
I really loved that 4x4 parabolic reflector, covered my 5x5 mother area perfectly, vertical bare bulb, tapped it with my skull a couple times, but never had a problem, until this morning.
Well today the ~3 year old hortilux HPS just kind of melted/burned itself right off of it's mogul base. Now I know, I guess I should have replaced it earlier but I honestly only thought I was losing a few lumens. Luckily I had 2 1020 trays of clones under it to catch it! they burned for a while I guess because there isn't much left of one of them, or the plastic containers that were in it, and those poor baby girls. Had an extinguisher mounted 0 steps behind me on the wall when I open the door to the veg room! Best money I ever spent, out in 2 seconds, but, if I hadn't been home? Doubt I'll ever run an open mogul socket again. Really loved that setup over the mothers too, but I'm going to throw up an old horizontal cool tube/reflector for now.
Worth it to cover the area in LED bars now or stick with HID?
I really loved that 4x4 parabolic reflector, covered my 5x5 mother area perfectly, vertical bare bulb, tapped it with my skull a couple times, but never had a problem, until this morning.
Well today the ~3 year old hortilux HPS just kind of melted/burned itself right off of it's mogul base. Now I know, I guess I should have replaced it earlier but I honestly only thought I was losing a few lumens. Luckily I had 2 1020 trays of clones under it to catch it! they burned for a while I guess because there isn't much left of one of them, or the plastic containers that were in it, and those poor baby girls. Had an extinguisher mounted 0 steps behind me on the wall when I open the door to the veg room! Best money I ever spent, out in 2 seconds, but, if I hadn't been home? Doubt I'll ever run an open mogul socket again. Really loved that setup over the mothers too, but I'm going to throw up an old horizontal cool tube/reflector for now.
Worth it to cover the area in LED bars now or stick with HID?