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All my instincts are like "Why not?"Make sure you don’t project yourself a UFO and get abducted.![]()
You sir are a dedicated man sticking to that!No more trim jail for a year....
Ok fingered it out.So mystery. Here is a 3 hour trace of enviroment today
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It has a 1 degree bounce up and down. Humidity is a small Vivosun that's doing fine.
But the Thermoforge has been moved to veg tent and both cloud and thermo are offline.
The house HVAC is off.
The total input to that tent is lights and the only way out is the top of the tent via duct.
In room dehuey is off but the wet room dehuey is on constant holding 45%
Well hmmmm
Same, but for the past 40 yearsI'm at the age where I keep on listening to the same music I have heard for 20 years and think all new music is like Taylor swift or some shit.
Hey jim,Ok fingered it out.
Silly. Really.
My house apparently is not a real priority in sending electricity by the power company.
My main entry is 220 3 phase like every house service.
Well apparently I get a 208v ( minimum per legal language) to 224v rolling voltage change. The same pattern but more clipped is apparent on my fluke meter as the effects of the reduction take a while to screw my numbers and when they flip it's a bang 208/ bang 244
So this up and down of system voltage is screwing the duct fan and slowing the pull. You can here the pitch of the duct fan change and of course lights go down and the only thing not really effected is the cloudforge but the draw is less than 100 watts but the duct fan is even less.
10v system specs for speed control is steady and does not change.
The UPC box has no more plugs and I would rather have stable app controls then worry about a 1 degree wave during lights on.
But at least I know it's not a box or controller ready to take a shit.
I'll take a slice for sure, with a scoop ofWord brother!.... And how about them Pot Pies?....
Same, but for the past 40 years
Okay, maybe 50 plus years![]()
That's a good one!
Lights do not visible change.Hey jim,
I’m not saying your readings are wrong, but I think you may be jumping a few diagnostic steps.
Coming from auto work, you already know the scan tool can show symptoms without proving the failed part. A 1°F temp wave in the tent might just be normal sensor noise, air mixing, or the fan moving heat pockets around. That graph by itself doesn’t prove a utility voltage problem.
The electrical side is where I’d slow down and verify. Most houses are not “220 three-phase like every house.” Most single-family homes are single-phase 120/240V or 120/208, unless there’s a special shop/farm/commercial reason. So if you’re seeing 208V, the important question is: 208V between which two points?
I’d check actual service type and measure L1-neutral, L2-neutral, and L1-L2 at the panel or meter side if you’re qualified, or have the power company/electrician do it. If lights are dimming and fan pitch is changing, that’s worth taking seriously. But I wouldn’t diagnose the utility from a grow controller graph.
The plants don’t care about a perfect flat line. They care about the overall range being stable and healthy. A one-degree bounce is not worth chasing unless there’s a bigger electrical symptom behind it.
just my .02![]()