Meh
Broken lights - the manufacturer has seen. Like my sparky we think its a cable issue. They’ll express me a replacement anything under warranty if its a problem their side. I think with the alacrity with which my Sparky responded he knows exactly what the problem is. I think when we raised the lights 2” yesterday we pulled something loose. I mean for the grow its an inconvenience. They’re still getting 950 PPFD right? I’m annoyed with the Sparky. I stressed so much yo him how his connections needed to be perfect. Got heat shrink sleeves for him and everything. Safety failure really. Anyway 5000k side looks like its grown the most today but the Tropicanna Banana’s back left and right corner in Photo #1 and left front in Photo #3 just filled that space in day. Photos #1 and #2 are like 3 hours apart.
I mean 2200 PPFD at 4” and no light burn. Crazy.
They look well though, eh?
Tomorrow I’m doing a big HVAC rejig thing.
So above - the duct into this 5x5 in the foreground is the input from the AC and the one touching it just above returns it into the AC closed off with a hood. One closed circuit. In the background you can see the output from the far 4x4
A diagram might help!
I’m using an extra inline on the return - its 4m 12ft or whatever and I want to express that air through. So hopefully the 4x4 Tailend Charlie still gets a bit of Co2 and its not too warm by the time it gets there. There are 8” swing fans in opposing corners in each tent. Keep breaking. So shit, I’ve bought cheap no name and Mars Hydro ones. They stop swinging because the fan blades come loose. Rubbish.
Anyhoo because I’m doing that tomorrow tonight is the last chance to see how cold I can get the 5x5. Normally I flip the AC from 24c Cold 75% Fan (gives me 32-35c daytime) to dry at lights out. Gives me 22-24c and 50% RH at night.
Tonight I have set to 16c full fan. As its closed loop I reckon I might hit 14c. Be interesting. After today though by the time its been through the other two tents to recycle I reckon never get that low again.
Staying on the AC front some of the cheapest things can be the most useful.
We use Sensibo AC controllers in the bedrooms and the Flower Room upstairs.
They have an infra red transmitter and temp and Rh sensors. So you can set schedules and create rules. Like these for our bedroom. 24c is freezing for me & Co - L is always hot though
But it needs line of sight to the IR input of the AC and be in the place where the temperature is being controlled. I think
@Jon has bought some for his Philly grow setup.
At the moment because the Split AC is on the wall I climb up on a 100L res with the remote and manually change the settings because no line of sight.
We have this little cover to change it.
A ballache and wifi/app it better. Sensibo makes it to my actual phone homepage.
So today this arrived. With the green arrow. It was like $2. I used them for some high end AV installs when I did that for a while. Its an IR repeater powered by USB. So in the tent the Sensibo records the temp and Rh and controls the AC by firing the signals into the IR Receiver. That via a cable travels to the IR emitter I can put under the hood of the AC. Neat, non?
With the orange arrow another $10 spent (two units and two spare filters)
1/2 inch inline water filters. We have 7, soon to be 8 12 outlet manifolds. The two reservoirs get crap in over time (& Co actually fits inside the 200L one - she gets in to clean it every so often
But these filters, gonna make our watering so much more consistent. One for the downstairs feed and one for the upstairs.
For all the fancy lights and stuff its the little things like these two that really make things easier.
Best I got today.
Long post - not even had a smoke or a drink all day
Nick
Nick
wishing you luck today 
