Light went off

This morning i woke up to find everything was on in my room except for the lights. I have a galaxy switchable ballast, and a 400 watt metal halide in there that are usually on for 18/6. i was wondering if

a) if the unknown time of darkness ( possibly a few hours ) could have hurt my almost 3 week old seedlings.

b) if anyone knows if these ballasts have some sort of a reset time? like , if you unplug it you cant plug it back in for x amount of time?

Thnk you!

Wesmkdro

okay found out the reset time was actually because you arent supposed to " hot-fire" ballasts or CMH lights. I should have waited a wee bit loner i guess. Anyone konw if the dark may have had a detrimental effect on my plants?

If it was only a few hours Im sure they'll be ok.Anything more than 12 watchout....

Yeah I'm sure its fine. Eclipses of the sun don't cause plants to die all over the world. Or cloudy days.

theSinned said:

Yeah I'm sure its fine. Eclipses of the sun don't cause plants to die all over the world. Or cloudy days.

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funny i was thinking along these same lines just today. sometimes with the closet door off to help with temps, a lil light may seep in from the living room or what not, but not much, and only during bright scenes during movies usually. plus there is a drapery hung over it that is not transparent, but doesn't block more than 50% of the light or so. as i started to worry about it i thought about moonlight, things like that that may cast light unexpectedly on plants during their night hours and sort of calmed myself with that notion. i imagine the only thing you have to worry about in these situations is repetitiveness. don't let those lights do that all week and you'll be ok i bet =D