Ok, so just before my last harvest a few weeks ago my timer went haywire. It would randomly stop coming on. So I go buy a fairly cheap timer to make due till I could get out and get a better one, but it did the same thing. Frustrated, the next day I make the trek to town and get a digi surge protector with a built in timer that controls 2 of the 8 or so outlets. At first it seems to work as expected, but then it seems like it randomly won't kick the ballast on. So for the past few days when I wake up (lights on at 3am) I check and the lights are off. It was a once a week thing but now 3 days straight. Every time I change the auto status to on, the timer turns the lights on. With this going on with 3 completely different timers, I think that item may not be the issue. One last note on the timer, it is plugged into a delay switch if the power is interupted so the lights will have a 15 minute cool down period, but the surge protector is plugged into it' with the ballast directly plugged into the surge protector.
The ballast is a 1k turned down to 750watts and was purchased about a year and a half ago but used for the first time about 3 months ago. The bulb is a 1k Hortilux, the newer one for digi ballasts. Been working fine, but noticed yesterday there is a high pitched whistle coming from the hood area' so I'm assuming it is the bulb, but not certain. Guess it could be some noise coming from the fan that I'm hearing come out of the air called hood. But thats what this post is for...to help me figure it out.
Can't think of any other relevant info to supply. At first I thought timer (still have a new backup timer that I was gonna try after lights out this afternoon), but after 3 I'm not so sure. I don't quite understand a bulb causing the issue' but that hummm bothers me, so that leaves the ballast as the issue by reason of deduction. But it comes on without delay or any problems once the timer is set to the "on" position. So that brings me back to the timer..."can you see the loop IMO stuck in.
If anyone has experienced this, or just know the "fix"....please, HELP!!!
The ballast is a 1k turned down to 750watts and was purchased about a year and a half ago but used for the first time about 3 months ago. The bulb is a 1k Hortilux, the newer one for digi ballasts. Been working fine, but noticed yesterday there is a high pitched whistle coming from the hood area' so I'm assuming it is the bulb, but not certain. Guess it could be some noise coming from the fan that I'm hearing come out of the air called hood. But thats what this post is for...to help me figure it out.
Can't think of any other relevant info to supply. At first I thought timer (still have a new backup timer that I was gonna try after lights out this afternoon), but after 3 I'm not so sure. I don't quite understand a bulb causing the issue' but that hummm bothers me, so that leaves the ballast as the issue by reason of deduction. But it comes on without delay or any problems once the timer is set to the "on" position. So that brings me back to the timer..."can you see the loop IMO stuck in.
If anyone has experienced this, or just know the "fix"....please, HELP!!!