Electricity issue during flowering

[Bodz420]

What would happen if you're in flowering and you get a problem with Electricity? For example the plant is getting 14 hours of darkness instead of 12?

 

[rkymtnman]

that's a timer problem, not electricity

 

[Bodz420]

that's a timer problem, not electricity

I live in a place where there is something called load shedding, which is they cut the electricity for 2 hours daily, different times than the previous day. What would you do?

 

[spek9]

I live in a place where there is something called load shedding, which is they cut the electricity for 2 hours daily, different times than the previous day. What would you do?

There's not much you can do but let the two hours eat into the lights on period whenever it overlaps. That's a lot better than shifting your light schedule manually every day.

 

[Bodz420]

There's not much you can do but let the two hours eat into the lights on period whenever it overlaps. That's a lot better than shifting your light schedule manually every day.

Will that effect them?

 

[TreeFarmerCharlie]

Will that effect them?

They'll be getting about 20% less light each day, so what do you think? Yes, they will grow slower, because they will receive less light.

 

[xtsho]

Better 14 hours of darkness 10/14 than 14 hours of light 14/10 during flower

 

[rkymtnman]

What would you do?

2 things:

buy a battery backup power source (IPS) and run your lights off that for those 2 hours

switch over to autoflowers that won't be affected by weird light cycles. run them 22/0 a day.

 

[SPLFreak808]

Buy a generator or build you a battery pack + ips.

I spent 1800$ last year on just parts alone to build me a 500AH lithium backup supply with inverter, it holds 1000w for about 4/5 hours and has already saved my ass during thunderstorms/windstorms ect.

Cheapest way is probably stacking SLA/FLA batteries in parallel on an IPS. 400w for 2 hours would need a 160ah lead acid, just don't use lead acid in enclosed areas.