Yes, and it must be long enough to make the run without daisy chaining.
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@merlin44 okay and let me ask you this, so the way I’ve always had it ran was through a light socket adapter that is right above my plant space you know so I had the adapter plug into the lights, with a little extension cord running down and had my timer and all of that plugged into it. But now I’m thinking about it I’m wondering what’s your thoughts on powering the lights through a light socket adapter? Is that okay?
That is absolutely NOT okay. That is a severe fire hazard.
You should never use those adaptors for anything more than a couple of amps. Plug into a properly grounded wall outlet.
Also a shock hazard because it lacks a ground wire. Because we use water in the area, should be on a GFCI receptacle or circuit. Many don’t worry about this, I always wire to code or higher.
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The wires in that light are stranded and probably 16 awg. This could be the reason the circuit does not work, you could have fried wires somewhere.
You could remove the light fixture and hard wire a plug outlet at the ceiling and should be ok, check with an electrician
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Well I had an electrician go check it out while he was on his lunch break LOL of course he had to walk throughout the house into the special room and everything which it’s okay probably but anyway you can’t figure out what the problem is. He took off damn near all the receptacles looking no way for a problem and we can’t find it. So now I’m stuck because I have my temporary wall you know to make my room smaller, well the wall is mid-adttic door. Meaning to open the Attic I’m going to have to move my wall and probably take my lights down and all that stuff so I don’t know I guess I’m going to just get a thick extension cord and just have to power my lights from another room for the meantime being. These baby extension cords linked together is really horrible
Have you checked to see if you have a tripped GFCI receptacle?
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Looking good bro. What did you figure out on your electrical situation?
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@OldNailPounder never got that breaker fixed, just went and got a heavy duty extension cord and ran it from another outlet, all I can do. Everything is flowering and looking good
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So I just put two little 19 Watt LEDs in the corners, I guess it’s 19 more watts then what was there before LOL I have five more of those 19 watt lights I’m going to end up putting them all back in here eventually but just did two for now. Also I made my wiring look a lot neater. From what all of the cords I have say, they are capable of holding more than what I have. But anyway I made it a lot neater. Here is some pics @OldNailPounder
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Look at the pistols, they are everywhere, I flipped to 1212 exactly 14 days ago. On the plant at the foliated last night, no pistols were really showing and I lollipop a little bit and took a whole lot of leaves off and when I woke up this morning pistols were everywhere! Must have made that happen from everything I cut off yesterday. Everything is looking good though, having a little fungus gnats problem, it might be worse than I think, I went and bought two different kinds of sticky traps earlier and some fly ribbons and have them everywhere so we will see. What do y’all think about just spraying the soil with the peroxide mix and just get them out the way? @OldNailPounder @Fieldofdreams @Myfriendis410 @merlin44 @Lostgirl @Poochie332 @OGIncognito @DanB
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Peroxide mix or H2O2 mix will deplete the soil of almost everything nutrients, microbial bacteria everything, so unless you have a soil conditioner and a real reason to do that kind of flush example root rot of something going on with the roots , I would look for an organic solution.
Drying out soil
Wait longer between watering sessions
Turn up around 2cms of soil in the plant to expose larvae and eggs this will cause the moisture in the soil to drop and the larvae and eggs to dry an die.
That’s my thoughts
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So a big old frog jumped in my house and I called him and put him in my veg closet. This is okay right? He’s going to eat them fungus gnats to pieces right? He’s not going to mess nothing up for me huh? lol
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Try mosquito bits, you can scratch that into the soil dry or mix it wet and apply 
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So I found four frogs and added them to the closet. They are disturbing some of my stuff a little bit from hopping around, they knocked my domes off the seedlings and they knocked my LST pin out of the mud LOL but I know they are in there eating all of these gnats, I mean what else are they going to do LOL but I’m wondering if the frog urine will mess anything up or anything like that? Which y’all think about this idea? I’m just going to keep them in there for a couple of days
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Put a little out house in there for them to use. 
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I hope theyre comfortable and have water to play in. Its comical, but they might eat hundreds of gnats too
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@Jaysittinback no I ain’t got no water in there LOL
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