Anyone? A friend told me he would never grow using HID esp HPS due to risk of fire. I suppose there’s a possibility, but I’ve never seen nor heard of it.
I’ve also heard rumors of LED drivers overheating and catching fire. But again, never seen nor heard it.
With all the small grower on this and other forums you’d think if it might happen it would have happened by now.
That being said, I suppose having one won’t hurt, so I’m installing a First Alert in mine this week.
I work at a place that has ~1 million led lights and not once have we had to fix any that caught on fire. Now, as for HID bulbs, they do get extremely hot but, as long as with anything that gets hot, if theres nothing touching them, fire shouldnt be an issue. Most of the time they are and should be inside of a concealed case. Never hurts to have smoke detectors though. Last thing on this earth i want to feel is being burned. 
I keep one in the grow room just because. I wouldn’t put it in the tent @Beard-O Last thing I need is hermies from a flashing, battery indicator light.
Most any modern led is going to offer way better fire protection then any none led for a few reasons.
Less heat and better surge protection.
If a hid catches even if it trips the breaker quickly, the light itself is still hot enough to keep burning something.
Leds don’t get near as hot nor would they retain any heat very long is the case of a driver shorting out, it should trip the break stopping the current long before it had time to ignite anything.
No way i would use anything but led in a tent, a room with high ceilings and plenty of room then sure maybe but I’d still want leds if I could get them.
Hid light are the most dangerous because when these lamps fail violently, extremely hot glass and other lamp parts may fall onto combustible materials below, igniting them and quickly causing a fire. Not to mention one drop of water hits the bulb and it explodes 
Led lights catch on fire all the time but it’s not typically from drivers getting hot. Google led thermal or current runaway. This is not to say that hig lights don’t catch on fire, as they certainly have. Most led drivers will provide voltage, current, and ground protections but this doesn’t make the fixtures fire protected. The leds themselves can catxh fire rather easily if overloaded and any low voltage/high current driver application has the potential to do this.
If running hid in a tent it’s probably going to be in an air cooled hood, which would at least keep a bulb explosion semi contained. From there any hot surfaces touching something combustible is careless installation. I would say when done properly the biggest concern with hid would be a bulb popping. If you handle the bulbs properly, change them regularly, and make sure not to refire before cooling that’s unlikely to happen.
I would encourage you to use a high quality/performance led fixture but I think solely limiting to fire potential there is a risk with both.
Keep your nasty lil finger prints off them, only time I’ve popped a big bulb 
Like ya said, clean install all the way around. Plenty of clearance, Clarence 
Its about being safe, and a smoke detector is a cheap investment. Not much to yhink about, smoke rises, installed above the tent works fine.
It’s definitely not going to hurt anything. But I would install Detector in the room an not inside the tent. Good luck
I would think over time the smoke detector in a tent would not work right…everything in my tent gets sticky with resin over time. I imagine it would coat the sensors on the detector. I was the Risk Manager for a large company so am a big fan of smoke and CO detectors and everyone should have both. Having one in the lung room sounds like a great idea…especially if you are like me and have a tangle of electrical cords in close proximity to water.
Same. I use a room to grow so it’s in that room with tape covering the light, but I feel like in a tent could be troublesome, at least as far as functionality goes. humidity can cause non water resistant appliances or electronics to not function correctly. You could get around this by disassembling the detector and using that electrical gel stuff, I forget what it’s called, and cover the circuit board.
If you all wanna avoid potential fires, use appropriate wires and extensions.
I see your point, but you can buy an el cheapo smoke detector at HD for $10. Even at $10 every year it’s cheap insurance. But I get it, to each his own and YMMV. I keep all my extensions cords to a minimum, and what I have are far stronger than I need.
just use an arts n crafts hot glue gun to cover the board.
Nice! Didn’t think of that 
It what I use to seal off PC case fans for making them waterproof
My family has been hanging sprinklers since the 1940’s and i can honestly say, I’ve never seen one of these before. That’s so cool!!! 
@peachfuzz
They are a little hard to find and im not sure how to post links , so hopefully one of the fine people on this forum will post one for everyone to use…
I just want everyone to be as safe as possible while enjoying this beautiful hobby…
@peachfuzz Here you go brother.
i suppose putting one in the grow room when running the super scorchin lights isnt a horrible idea.
what happens if worst case scenario happens and it goes off? u gonna have a fresh fire extinguisher in there or close by as well?
