power outage protocol?
- Thread starter DrDukePHD
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jondamon
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Sit quietly.
get stoned
wait for power to be reinstated
Adjust any timers back to normal time.
Carry on as normal.
Personally I would rather have an extended dark period than an extended lights on Period.
Then once everything is back on I sit back and get stoned again lol.
UpstateRecGrower
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Just reset the timers when the power comes back on. Drench the flowering plants with purecrop if the power was off a considerable amount of time. If it’s off for a day or longer you might have to hand water bigger plants.
jondamon
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Or allow your auto feeding system just to continue feeding as normal but keep an eye on RH and TEMPS
HydroKid239
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Have a generator is #1 for me. I’ve been through a power outage 6 days long without. Never again.
LeastExpectedGrower
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If it's during my dark period, I just make sure to get the timer set correctly (mechanical timer). If it's during my lights on period, I bust out a rechargeable LED light and put it in the tent until the lights come back on again. It last a few hours and is USB charged, and if I need more than a few hours I plug it into a charging unit I have and can get a bunch more hours out of it.
Herb & Suds
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Rurumo
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For long outages, the most useful thing I've found are some long lasting battery operated fans. The RH skyrockets inside a closed tent with no vent fan going, so I'll stick one of these in over the canopy if I know the outage will be long-like during a big windstorm that takes out a lot of power lines. Normal outages of 6 hours or less, I don't bother with them though. Even during a long outage during the winter, I'm less concerned about their photoperiod than I am about keeping my temps up inside a cold house.
JeffWix
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I set tight for 20 seconds until my Generac 24kvw generator kicks the two 200A transfer switches to Genset Power from Main Power...and viola...good to go.
DrDukePHD
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Thanks man, I'll take your suggestion & get one of these. Along with a rechargeable LED as suggested by @LeastExpectedGrower just to be prepared for a day-long+ outage.
I'll also take @steve870 advice for a timer with battery. I've had to reset my manual 9x in 4 weeks lol.
& i'll keep @UpstateRecGrower 's idea in mind for when i get to flowering (Drench the flowering plants with purecrop if the power was off a considerable amount of time.)
@HydroKid239 I would love a whole house generator (12-15k installed) maybe one day!
Also thanks for all the "chill/have a beer/its not rocket science posts" i had a good laugh
ProPheT 216
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I have a solar power box thingy for camping. I can run my fans and air pumps on it all day. One of those jackery batteries
xtsho
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One of the good things about living close in to a big city is that the power doesn't stay out for very long. A few hours is the longest it's been out where I'm living now. We don't get many bad weather events here. The last time we did was decades ago and I was living downtown. Power was back in an hour but I had to take a week off from work because the power was still out at the facility. I do have a generator though but that's for the freezer full of meat, refrigerator, electronics, etc...
ProPheT 216
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