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JacuzziSplot · 09-23-2010, 08:23 PM

I have been thinking about this lately too. If I am working in my cabinet with a 400w hps for more than 15 mins the room seems pitch black once I close the cab even with all the lights on and an hour later my eyes feel like they are sunburned.

IwannatokeNbone · 09-23-2010, 09:36 PM

if u run a blue enhanced hps id be even more cautious, there a sticky on the damage one grower had running a vertical circular witha mh bulb, really fucked his eyes up for life, i sun gaze , and im up to 30 plus minutes, my eyes are great but even looking at a 150hps for a second tells me something isnt so good here and that its a bad idea to expose your eyes to it, were a hat in your rooms or some glasses and never look at mh bulbs with all that uv n blueish light, terrible for your eyes, if u squint u should be looking at the source of light that makes u squint.

09-23-2010, 09:51 PM

Regular horizontal growing doesn't really bother me but vertical bulbs are an entire irritation unto themselves, you just have to wear glasses. I'm no doctor, believe that, but I know when my eyes hurt!! I'm the only long term chronic repeat cultivator I know who's been around 1000W lamps for over 25 yrs and I can still see but things aren't getting any better....

I just don't know anybody to compare myself with...

couchlockd · 09-23-2010, 10:17 PM

my dog scratched my eye one day and it felt like i wanted to die it hurt sooo bad.

i ended up sitting in bed unable to sleep with my eyes slammed shut.

then i remembered i have to do somme work in the room. i get up and know itsw gonna be a pain, so i use the "unpoked" eye, as i thought it would be okay. WRONG. it felt like some one punched me in the face when i opened that door. i then tried my eye that was injured and i fell over.

untill that day i never thought of the possibility that i should protect my eyes. now i do i use my welding mask that is auto dimming with a #5 shade.

09-23-2010, 11:57 PM

You can get a pair of cutting torch goggles like the flip up ones above for less than 10 bucks. I got mine at ACE hardware for 7.99 Oh, they work good for cutting metal too.

09-24-2010, 05:31 PM

I've been welding on boats for years and regular 4 hr welding runs on aluminun with a TIG gun are nothing compared to what my eyes feel like after my 1st summer of vert. My yields were off the charts but my eyeballs are in a wheelchair!! I just can't see the plants well enough with any welding specs, so I'm leaning back to flat lighting but some of the bombass buds I had make me hesitate....

whodair · 09-24-2010, 05:40 PM

i can barely enter my verti room when lit, so less time spent in the grow is less chances of me screwing things up !!

09-25-2010, 09:45 AM

Ha!! That's a good one.

ugmjfarmer · 10-14-2010, 07:32 PM

As you are all probably growers of a material that reduces inter-ocular pressure with the quickness, and cures cancer and various other diseases: I would recomend adding to the eye protection a healthy diet of simpson oil and carrots.

Seriously you all grow medicine, now use it some more

(like pot growers need an excuse to smoke more right?)

Bueno Time · 10-15-2010, 03:46 AM

I agree that horizontal lights arent too bad for the eyes but man do the vertical ones ever make you see spots for minutes after exposure. I got myself some of the shade 5 welding glasses off Amazon . com and they are great I still try not to look at the arc tube still with them on but definitely worth the $11-13 dollars I paid!

09-23-2010, 08:23 PM	#91
JacuzziSplot Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 363	I have been thinking about this lately too. If I am working in my cabinet with a 400w hps for more than 15 mins the room seems pitch black once I close the cab even with all the lights on and an hour later my eyes feel like they are sunburned. __________________ Mr. Salt: [noticing signs on vats] Wonka. Butterscotch? Buttergin? Got a little something going on the side? Willy Wonka: Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
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09-23-2010, 09:36 PM	#92
IwannatokeNbone I luv making new crosses, ive got fuck all a clue what im doing but its fun as hell Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 802	if u run a blue enhanced hps id be even more cautious, there a sticky on the damage one grower had running a vertical circular witha mh bulb, really fucked his eyes up for life, i sun gaze , and im up to 30 plus minutes, my eyes are great but even looking at a 150hps for a second tells me something isnt so good here and that its a bad idea to expose your eyes to it, were a hat in your rooms or some glasses and never look at mh bulbs with all that uv n blueish light, terrible for your eyes, if u squint u should be looking at the source of light that makes u squint.
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09-23-2010, 09:51 PM	#93
guest121295 Guest Posts: n/a	Regular horizontal growing doesn't really bother me but vertical bulbs are an entire irritation unto themselves, you just have to wear glasses. I'm no doctor, believe that, but I know when my eyes hurt!! I'm the only long term chronic repeat cultivator I know who's been around 1000W lamps for over 25 yrs and I can still see but things aren't getting any better.... I just don't know anybody to compare myself with...
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09-23-2010, 10:17 PM	#94
couchlockd Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 440	my dog scratched my eye one day and it felt like i wanted to die it hurt sooo bad. i ended up sitting in bed unable to sleep with my eyes slammed shut. then i remembered i have to do somme work in the room. i get up and know itsw gonna be a pain, so i use the "unpoked" eye, as i thought it would be okay. WRONG. it felt like some one punched me in the face when i opened that door. i then tried my eye that was injured and i fell over. untill that day i never thought of the possibility that i should protect my eyes. now i do i use my welding mask that is auto dimming with a #5 shade.
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09-23-2010, 11:57 PM	#95
Rysam Guest Posts: n/a	You can get a pair of cutting torch goggles like the flip up ones above for less than 10 bucks. I got mine at ACE hardware for 7.99 Oh, they work good for cutting metal too.
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09-24-2010, 05:31 PM	#96
guest121295 Guest Posts: n/a	I've been welding on boats for years and regular 4 hr welding runs on aluminun with a TIG gun are nothing compared to what my eyes feel like after my 1st summer of vert. My yields were off the charts but my eyeballs are in a wheelchair!! I just can't see the plants well enough with any welding specs, so I'm leaning back to flat lighting but some of the bombass buds I had make me hesitate....
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09-24-2010, 05:40 PM	#97
whodair Banned Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 2,973	i can barely enter my verti room when lit, so less time spent in the grow is less chances of me screwing things up !!
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09-25-2010, 09:45 AM	#98
guest121295 Guest Posts: n/a	Ha!! That's a good one.
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10-14-2010, 07:32 PM	#99
ugmjfarmer Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Lansing, MI Posts: 122	As you are all probably growers of a material that reduces inter-ocular pressure with the quickness, and cures cancer and various other diseases: I would recomend adding to the eye protection a healthy diet of simpson oil and carrots. Seriously you all grow medicine, now use it some more (like pot growers need an excuse to smoke more right?) __________________ Michigan Compliant Caregiver Last edited by ugmjfarmer; 10-14-2010 at 09:12 PM.. Reason: I mean this as a joke, the eye damage looking into 1000w bulbs is not a joke, I will testify to that. Serious thread.
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10-15-2010, 03:46 AM	#100
Bueno Time Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 2,125	I agree that horizontal lights arent too bad for the eyes but man do the vertical ones ever make you see spots for minutes after exposure. I got myself some of the shade 5 welding glasses off Amazon . com and they are great I still try not to look at the arc tube still with them on but definitely worth the $11-13 dollars I paid!
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