It won’t be once you start flowering. Is the plug on light polarized? If it’s not, try flipping it over and see if problem goes away. If the plug is polarized, check that line and neutral aren’t crossed on the back of receptacle you’re plugged into. Black should be on gold screw and white on silver screw. Obviously, make sure that circuit is powered down before messing with it.
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Didnt someone have this same issue with an QB not long ago and it turned out to be a bad timer allowing light to stay on very dim.
@ImAlex may be a good idea to try another timer to see if anything changes
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Thank you both.
I’ll look into it. Im thinking it has something to do with it beeing a grounded polarized cable ? o.O I tried a smaller light without the grounding pins on the cable and then it worked.
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The problem is generally not a timer, but how the timer works.
All of the drivers are multi voltage, so they have switching circuitry within them. This is usually from power going to wrong side of driver in single hot wire configuration. Some timers only switch one of the wires, if that’s case and hot is backwards, you will see an issue like that. But timer could still be working as designed.
That being said, I’ve helped troubleshoot this issue more than a couple of times. We’ve found a number of things, none of them would be a surprise with Mars hydro light. But I feel polarity issue is most likely and easily checked.
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This reminds me of mistakes in the old aircraft manuals the Air Force had. You’d be in the middle of a procedure, and it’d say something like “remove the bolt” at the end of one page, and at the beginning of the next “but not before securing the weight of the part,” you read aloud as you hear CLANG over your shoulder and the guy listening to your instructions grabbing his foot 
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Haha 
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I would feel guilty if I didn’t say it. I would also figure since the entire post isn’t but 30 seconds worth of reading, probably not a big deal.
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I like it. Safety first 
Anyways, im gonna keep you guys updated on the grow whether you like it or not 
Its been a couple days under new led light and it looks like she is enjoying it. Gonna experiment a litle with the height the next few days.
Current height: 27 inches
Im thinking i could post a picture weekly from now on. If everything goes ok fingers crossed
Here she is 4 weeks old:
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What you think about putting germinated seeds in rockwool cubes thats been soaked with root stimulant? In this case Voodoo juice.
Bad idea?
I am actually really starting to not like rockwool. I tried to do some cloning and the rockwool just held too much water and was too wet. I have not had success directly seeding into rockwool. Instead I use the soak/paper towel method to initially germinate and then transfer to rockwool. I don’t think your voodoo juice is going to make much of a difference.
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That’s about how I feel lol.
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@Myfriendis410 Happy Birthday! Wait? Your birthday was the 5th of March, why the birthday cake?
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Server location maybe? Happy Birthday, Alan! (hope that’s right 
@Myfriendis410)
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Today is the day. March is my ILGM anniversary
Oh, hahaha, it’s April 
Happy Birthday! Hope your day is a great one.
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Happy birthday @Myfriendis410 
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Btw ordered some fresh Jack Herer seeds, if they arrive I’ll try two grows this time. The OG Kush had too much deficiencies so i had to say goodbye 
its hard beeing a rookie at this dwc stuff…
Any moderator that can delete this topic so i can start a new if things go as planned? Would like to brag if i ever get a successful grow 
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Mistakes are important too. I think it’s best to document it.
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