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Thankfully its the dark cycle you don't really want to interrupt, as that is when the plants do most of their growing. As long as you don't have extended periods of dark in veg your plants will be fine, otherwise they'll switch to flower. I have been thinking about this a lot and thinking about getting a genny and lights and all that jazz. But decided its more effort than its worth.

Rather build a greenhouse and grow autos in winter. Normally Eskom only have issues in summer as the don't have enough dry coal to burn. But it is up to you. I have emergency lights that go on when the electricity goes off. But that is just to not interrupt the light cycle. Eskomsepush. Sent from my VTR-L09 using Tapatalk

You build it, i'll code it

I haven't really put any though into this as loadshitting hasn't been an issue... Until it was... My thought process is as follows... 12v LED strips, connected to a battery, perhaps via an arduino connected to a 9v battery just to power the unit. One could connect an RTC board to ensure time is always correct, breaking out to relays for on and off. Lights will run on a 12v battery, perhaps alarm battery. These lights will run at the same time as primary light cycles, however, if power goes out, the arduino will ensure that the 12v strips remain on. May not help the flowering process, but definitely help not to stress the plants too much. Digital timer will still be needed for primary lights so they don't lose time. When power comes back on, the 'sun' will simply come out behind the 'clouds' again Sent from my EVA-L09 using Tapatalk

I'm thinking of doing 24hrs on hey. Also auto's in my tent.

I've got one of those emergency LED's in my tent, it turns on when the lights on off. Only problem i have is that when the lights go out during my dark cycle, the emergency light comes on. This is a problem. If the shedding wasn't so erratic, it would be easy to manage. Yesterday it was off from 06:00 to 08:30, 14H00-16H30 and the 22H35-23H06. Every day it's at different times and my light period is from 18H00-12H00. So yesterday the ladies got 2 and a half hours or light in the middle of the dark cycle FML!

If you are looking for a geni, I would go for one that starts up automatic when the electricity goes off. The problem is that you would then need to grow with LEDS or have a battery back up for the switch over period, as HPS will not like the drop in power. And probably not go on immediately after the generator kicks in. LEDs would be fine. The other option is to have battery backup for LEDs. Or just invest in an solar system, if you have 25-30k. You will probably save in the long run. And you would have electricity. Sent from my VTR-L09 using Tapatalk

Starting flowering phase. Growing tall with some large amounts of up coming wanna be buds Sent from my SM-A700F using Tapatalk

Sweet Tooth Auto - from broken stem - outdoors in coco - planted Jan Unknow Indica

PINK LADY bagiseed sativa turned out to be epix in pink colors

Punto Rojo was given by close friend. And now it is getting one awesome journey

Okay, so perhaps you want a carbon filter then ahaha.

Last photo of this plant..... It was stolen last knight... I am livid.... Fckrs......