ConstantGreen
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Yikes! I'm getting ready to restart my stalled journal Sunday night in anticipation (/hope) of cooler weather. I placed a couple of small plants under the panel with only the mono-color LEDs running as a way of getting them used to increased light. I thought I should unscrew the little rings that hold the - removable - 90° lenses in place so that, when I flip on the six COBs, I don't end up with scorched plants. Unscrewed the first one. Easy, no problems. Unscrewed the second, ditto. The third, ditto. I unscrewed the fourth one, glanced at the COB, and thought, "That doesn't look right." Then I looked at what I had in my hand - the ring, with the lens sitting inside it, and the little silver "reflector cup" that should be around that COB was sitting calmly on top of the lens I had just removed!
I looked at it, then looked at the COB area... and I cannot even tell how it was mounted up in there. By that, I mean IDK what - if anything?!? - was holding it in place, other than the lens and trim ring. That tells me that I have two issues: First, HtH am I going to put it back where it belongs? From the quick glance that I gave things (I had the three pieces in my hand and didn't want to take a chance on dropping anything), it looks like there might be a lot more room "in the hole" than the size of that aluminum(?) cup piece, so IDK how to even ensure that it'll get lined up correctly. Second... Are the three that are still in there, but which currently have no lens / trim ring holding them in place... Am I going to walk in there tomorrow and see them laying on the floor? Now IDK whether to screw those lenses / rings back up or to continue removing the last two. Plus, well, there's the whole matter of the one that has already come out.
<ARGH!> This new technology sure is stressful. With the old HPS, all I had to worry about was... Well... IDK, some freak accident, maybe. Dropping a loaded pistol, having it go off and send a slug through the bulb, lol. Something like that.
Ideas / suggestions? Anyone have this happen before, know what to do? This is on the Amare SE350+UVB, BtW, but if I was you - and you are running one of the products that have COBs (even if it is a different model) and have removed the lenses - I'd be getting really paranoid right about now... Because I've never even bumped this LED panel; even when I adjusted it on those rope hanger gizmos, I gently lifted the panel on that side before I pulled the rope, so that I did not put any stress on anything.
Relax, you didn't break anything. That's how they are, at least mine were. The rings that hold the lenses also pin the reflector cups in place. Just place the cup back in the slot and screw the ring down.