Lazerus00 said:

So as I am about to start my first grow, I had plugged in my 1000watt light, my inline fan with filter and my humidifier. I let this run for 2 or 3 days to make sure everything is working properly before I popped my beans. So of course now that I put the beans to germinate I have encounntered a huge problem and I'm hoping someone else has come across a similar situation. I woke up this morning to knocking on my door and it was my cable and internet provider company (Optimum) and he was saying that they traced a problem they are having with the modems in the area back to my house. (talk about unwanted attention!) He needed access to my garage where all the wires are and as I am down there with him he starts saying that it is like all of a sudden a few days ago I started using a lot of juice! He had asked if recently I plugged in a bid heater or something. My wheels started turning and I told him to hold on a minute and I went to my basement and unplugged all of the growing equipment. Low and behold when I walked back outside they said whatever I just did fixed the problem. Talk about some bad freaking luck! I told them that recently I decided to start growing my own vegetables inside and a few days ago plugged in the equipment. They said that it was deff the cause of the problem and that it could be affecting it for a number of reasons and also added that if I happened to not be home this morning they would have had to cut my phone, modem, and cable off! Has anybody encountered or heard of this issue popping up anywhere??? I asked them for a fix and they couldn't give me a deffinate answer, they said maybe I needed updated "quad sealed" cables running thru my entire house and or getting a dedicated power line for the equipment. All I know is that i am beyond pissed and don't feel like it is my problem that their system can't handle the juice I'm using...I dont know I am going to have Verizion come over and see if by switching to them I don't have the same problem. As always any info or advice would be great...
Stay high my friends!

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Toaster79 said:

Your ballast is returning RF dirt via its mains cable into network. Get some ferrite cores around mains cable and shield your ballast or better find one that doesn't do this. If your internet cable is running anywhere in range of that RF field your also putting dirt into internet network LAN/WAN causing problems not only on your side but in the whole block.

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Toaster79 said:

Your ballast is returning RF dirt via its mains cable into network. Get some ferrite cores around mains cable and shield your ballast or better find one that doesn't do this. If your internet cable is running anywhere in range of that RF field your also putting dirt into internet network LAN/WAN causing problems not only on your side but in the whole block.

What ballast are you using?

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Wow thank you all for your input...I also feel like it is their problem and feel like telling them to screw themselves but as @Toaster79 said, I kinda felt it might be my ballast bc it is literally with in a foot or so of my cable modem and some other cables...The ballast I have is a Ulti-Lumenx digital ballast...it is not noisey but at the same time I don't think its top of the line...How do I know if it is emiting RF dirt? How do I know which ballast dont do this...Another ballast I was looking at is the Solis-tek...either the matrix one or their normal one...Would that one fix it? How do I shield my ballast?

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Toaster79 said:

With your ballast so close to the modem and cables you can take any ballast you like and it won't change anything. Get it as far away as possible from your electeonic devices like modems routers and cables otherwise you'll have problems not only with your provider but also with other that are connected with same cabling. U're using coax cable from your modem to the outlet right?

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Lazerus00 said:

Technically I dont use any tv or cable in my basement any more and could have my modem and everything brought upstairs and have all cables removed from my basement. The thing is I would still be worried that the ballast would somehow affect the cables upstairs thru the ceiling/floor @Toaster79

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Toaster79 said:

They couldn't have known it but sure as hell assumed it once they tracked down the source of the problem in entire neighborhood.

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Lazerus00 said:

and as I am down there with him he starts saying that it is like all of a sudden a few days ago I started using a lot of juice! He had asked if recently I plugged in a bid heater or something.

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