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Its working real good. 80f to 73f in just few mins.

Tour of the grow room bedroom. What yall think? Its at its limit. There will be a couple more buckets for two more plants in closet area buckets will sit.

260w not 152w great I messed that up too. Well I realized the thing looking for is really just teo timed outlets. On each dehuey 5mins on 5 mins off. They wont both start at the same time if power cuts in and out instead of just down for a extended time.

It will still save me 200w once I get the other dehuey unless the smalller one doesnt perform like I thought. It should if anything. Idk who has 3k sq ft for 100sq ft. Its my only option really. Just splitting a dehuey in half really. It will not dry the whole room with just one it has humid pockets. A pedestal fan not really help.

Absorber said:

Thats the amp meter i use its pretty accurate but you need to make a short lead like this to clamp individual wires View attachment 5456357View attachment 5456358

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Ok so Im watching something that said those dont read unrush current its just a hold feature. So you can hold the reading while removing the clamp. Is that right?

Also, is a line splitter all I need to safely make what you have to measure cords that otherwise would need that? Is Kaiweets a good brand if I need that inrush feature? I see one for 90$.

Im silly lol. The timers wont work unless theyre in sync perfectly. Well I found a fridge surge protector can I just use those? Says right on the manufacture details it will wait 3 mins to turn on connected devices. To ensure optimal voltage but in my case just so it turns on the dehuey last.

Well am I just diggin myself deeper or is this ok..

I got the protector I should be good. Got the other dehuey. I could get a watt meter just to know inrush but not in a hurry. Il be at 1400w continous.

A lead for the ac when needed which actually be most of the year. 6 months and maybe at certain times in summer. So this was a problem waited past sec to solve so was all over the place.

As you can see I got a dope ass grow hope I can keep it. The hydrocrunch will be taken down when not used which makes the room look much more normal. Maybe take down another tent when I can.

medidedicated said:

Ok so Im watching something that said those dont read unrush current its just a hold feature. So you can hold the reading while removing the clamp. Is that right?

Also, is a line splitter all I need to safely make what you have to measure cords that otherwise would need that? Is Kaiweets a good brand if I need that inrush feature? I see one for 90$.

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my fluke meter will measure inrush peak current ,it flashes up on the screen you have to pay attention .
The fridge surge protector should work if its capable of handling the load .it should be fine

Ok so the surge protector works. Was exactly what I need. Turn on a second compressor 3 mins after power returns so its last to turn on. The 260w dehuey vs 380w line its holding up so far like the last one. All going as planned.

Id estimate my 380w dehuey to be 220w extra to turn on by the fact the circuit didnt trip when turning on. I may not have a meter but afaik fuse will trip as soon as more than 15a is drawn.

Hell yea typing in live time it brought it down another rh%. So I will save 200w and have no choice because I cant draw more than 1440w. I was over with two 380w dehueys.

The ac is weird with the condensate it just builds up and pukes it out unpredictably. It doesnt dry the air in fact I think it raises room rh. People say cooler air holds less moisture yadayada but thats not what this is.

Orherwise rh would drop when temps go up and it doesnt. Each run is different almost want to give them nicknames. Anywho the ac will cool like I said, 10F in minutes but its like a rail gun that beams where ever its pointed.

So quite literally one side can be 10F lower than other so I centered it to balance temps across room. Its working.

I put on cinderblocks to raise the exaust vent so my bed dont obstruct. It works but now my body and blankets block it a little but not during the day. At night I could block it even more in my sleep.

Just a compact ass room so these devices cant work that good but if thats true, why wasnt it any better the more empty it was? My hydro crunch tent before existance my dehuey didnt work any better. If I dont need two dehueys then why does one side go up in rh if it shuts off?

I will say blowing air in from outside in booster fan was rising rh a lot but was raining and 90rh. Thats a thinker. I guess rh can blow into another room idk these are recent observations. Youd think obviously they do but it didnt do that when I blow air inside from hall way of house.

I was using the booster fan to balance out the exausting outside that the portable ac does. It was working. On extra humid days Il just shut that off. Its important as I can raise house temps but if its already mild out then it wont matter, thats why Im not returning aside from laziness.

Im returning swamp cooler though wont unbox to make it easier. Theres no way that thing will work and if it does I bet it will rise rh past my comfort.

Idk if its because Im stoned a little but realize second and second are the same word but means two different things. Desert, desert. Lol.

What the hell is this? The holes in back of dehuey. I seen this before. I thought it was just a way to keep the plug kept away.

medidedicated said:

What the hell is this? The holes in back of dehuey. I seen this before. I thought it was just a way to keep the plug kept away.

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Yea im pretty sure its just to store plug

My fam is convinced its an adaptor like, say you take it to EU, just plug an adapted cord to the back of this and to the wall. I said well EU is 220v how can is be 220 and 120 same circuit. One of those things you dont need to know but curiousity is buggin me.

Oh its possible actually if google is right. The ai can be outright wrong often though as I learned recently. I wasnt really using it like that. Just recently. Im gonna call frigidaire and ask them. My fam is just as curious as me.

medidedicated said:

My fam is convinced its an adaptor like, say you take it to EU, just plug an adapted cord to the back of this and to the wall. I said well EU is 220v how can is be 220 and 120 same circuit. One of those things you dont need to know but curiousity is buggin me.

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Short of opening it up ,shine a torch in the hole i bet there's nothing in there .
It has different plug pattern because it would be sold in other countries and have a different plug fitted .

That makes sense Il tell them that. I told them an electrician told me so but they doubt me lol. Like when I said I had a electrician look at my grow, they still suggest a local one check it out.

Im just causing arguements now lol now saying its just there but when they build for other countries they will put a power component there instead. The hollow thing just had him build on that. I hope Im not being stubborn.

I mean sure having a guy out to look at it would make sense but more often than not noones doing that. My room is crazy though. And reading manual to ac I was hesitant to use it. Fire and shock hazard left and right. My dehueys aint any more or less dangerous though.

Minimal cords and lifted off ground when possible. Minimal connection points of cords. Just as tidy as possible and still improving. Thing is I feel like an electrician vs an electrician who grows would give you two different opinions on the matter.

The hvac guys didnt know what to tell me other than put the grow in the basement. Hvac here said portable ac should work, not a swamp cooler. I returned that by the way. Ahh what have I gotten into. I love getting high what can I say. This hobby has had lots of positive impacts.

@ttystikk Why would a portable ac spike rh 10-20%? I tried reaching manufacture about if its normal for condensate to gush out periodically but no answer yet. I read the ac tries to evaporate the condensate where the hot part of refrigerant sits at and exausts outside to keep cool. I suspected that might have something to do with.

Or when I turn it on after a week of no use it seems like the built in temp guage needs to warm up before getting dialed in. Also that it spikes rh 10-20% the latter when used after a while of ac not being turned on, like a few days to a week. I have no idea and AI cant help it doesnt even know what Im saying. Tried reading whatever it linked and pulled up.

Need figure out how to remove the automatic ai. Its now pulling up the fact cool air holds less moisture. It wasnt pulling that up at first. I doubted that earlier but idk its better than what it first pulled up.

Its early I aint there yet I just recall it telling me things that make no sense like the water its pulling out somehow causing it by not draining it something like that.

You know what though why would winter air 20F blowing into the room not give me issues.. Suddenly no answers probably..

Ok I can turn it off, the ai feature. It just changes the search results Im now thinking. Well when it gets dialed in after a day or two its do able. The temp and rh. At first it literally spiked 20%. I cant make sense of why.

I was thinking make plants smaller but pushing myself to keep it together this run all packed.. Maybe the boxfans are enough with 40rh but the buds arent as fat as the time they molded. I also had zero circulation so Im just mixed thoughts right now thinking about future runs.

If buds are fat and 40rh is the best I can do I guess it dont matter if plants are smaller. I can just fill wall to wall. Maybe Im still dehydrating them a bit when its 30-35rh and peaks at 40rh for a moment and box fans blaring at it saves it. By reducing rh right away right back to 33rh for a long period and the box fan on it the whole time..

Thats why I think I was fine when it hit 60rh once last run for a sec and then again this run during power outage while starting the generator. That spores wont just grow, its a prolonged effect that buds become moist, sweaty, guttation, that it takes hold. Like a headband holding the sweat back from a marathon runners face, the conditions keep up with each breath plant takes.

I kept conditions close to last run with some hiccups.Thats because 2.5x5 tent two clones packed doesnt manage rh like one plant in a 3x3. I basicly solved with two smaller dehueys so each pair of tents have their own dehuey. Lolipop prune thin defol super good. I wonder if plants can be a lot older/bigger if I just pruned etc real well.

Id hate to be on the edge again though so just gonna make similar size clones. I used to suggest tossing plants if rh isnt managable but what I did here made a big difference. Dehueys blow dry air right into the intakes of tents due to the exaust being aimed that way luckily. I say because I didnt pass 37rh last run so idk where the line is exactly but may be a prolonged effect and not to panic.

It hit 50rh with the ac first time using it yesterday so yea idk, our home ac never did this. Now its breaking in and below 40rh. Seems to sit between 36-40rh.

Absorber said:

Thats the amp meter i use its pretty accurate but you need to make a short lead like this to clamp individual wires View attachment 5456357View attachment 5456358

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Big fan of Fluke meters for years. My Fluke88 has about every add on kit there is. Pyro/ inductive, pressure vacuum.

I found that if you made a small circle with wires and clamp it you can 10x the amp trace and it was fast enough to find open circuits on fuel pump armatures and injector problems.
And it was a 97 model .........