The only necessary is keeping your daylight schedule on track like @Illegal_Smile is saying. Keep the hermies at bay.
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Like you said then, making sure that the timer has good batteries will do the trick! Thanks @ryasco @Illegal_Smile
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Go with a cheap led bar/panel/bulb using minimal watts, plugged into the UPS. As @Illegal_Smile said, you are just trying to keep the light schedule on track, or more specifically, the DARK schedule on track. Contrary to commonly held assumptions, itās the length of uninterrupted darkness, not the light period, that regulates flowering. Your goal here is to prevent more than 12 hours of continuous darkness occurring during an outage. Anything, even a CFL or led screw-in retrofit bulb cycled on for an hour, will do the trick.
I donāt see an easy way to automate the UPS to switch on the light only during outages however. The UPSās Iāve used were āpass-throughā in that they only switched among power sources, AC line vs. DC battery power, depending on the power input condition. They donāt switch on or off the appliances plugged into them. And a UPS plugged into a timer would simply switch to battery power when the timer switched to off, no?
In my experience the occasional power outage, even a 6-hour outage, doesnāt impact a crop much. Several in a week or two, sure. More so during veg than flower, where the plants could be stunted, set back a few days.
-b420
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So many ideas, i donāt even know what to do, but in the end this is a temporary solution, since iām moving back to the city, school starts in Sep and by then i have to be living there. Iāam actually gonna be running some autos, just for now, and thenā¦ Iāll post more on the real deal. Iām getting some good genetics and the lamp is the shit, but they take a while to build it and send it out, plus it has to come down all the way over here. Sooooā¦
Thanks @Baudelaire @Illegal_Smile @ryasco @shroomgod YOU GUYS ROCK!
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Get a diesel powered welding machine . even a cheap one is better than a generator. Can run room an whole house.
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That kind of a thing would shine so much in the neighborhood, HAHAHAHA, people will wonder, whatās he do that he needs power like that!!! Great idea, but not feasible where i live! Those welding machines have a lot of power!
Mufflers and curtians.
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Worked for me for years. Most nieghbors had loud ass genās going when lites where out for while. Short term i wouldnāt. Worry bout
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Hi this is what a freind of mine used to do for power outages.
Buy as big a automotive battery as you can afford or get your hands on, not a car battery but something for a caravan, motorhome, boat etc, the more amps the better.
He would leave it on trickle charge from a mains charger, connect it to an automotive inverter, this makes it go from 12/24 volts to 240v or 110v depending where you are geographically.
This now gives you mains power from a battery through the inverter, plug your programable timer into it and put a cfl, T5 or leds into that and not forgetting your fan filter combo.
The worst thing about power cuts are not the lights fucking up the grow causing hermies but the odour that starts to leak from the room as negative pressure is lost and start to emminate around the property. (no problems in a legal place but big problems in a non legal place hehe.
Hope that helps 
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Other options can include;
Gas powered generators (not petrol or deisel) gas like what a cooker uses.
Solar powered trickle chargers, your other grow lights will charge the battery.
Pick up all your plants and run like fuck with them to the sunshine, or nearest street lamp if its dark, stand them infront of your car headlights hehehe
Excuse my sarcasm rofl.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA! No man i love it, a good sarcasm line denotes mental health, and agility of thinking. Anyway bro, @MadTruka, iām moving to the main province in Costa Rica, San Jose. They donāt have electric storm like we do on the beach, so it will be a non-issue!
If you ever get the chance to go to europe, try hooking up with some of the Dam guys who use barges.
They live and grow on the barge, sailing up and down the canal systems, as the engines create the power for running the lights etc, never in one place for very long either, always on the move slowly and peacefully, nice way of life.
When they pull up for the evening they run generators.
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Iām afraid of boatsā¦ LOL
No really, will try to do something like that, but I donāt like it getting out of my countryā¦ AHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The future will tell. Thanks man!
Now for my real but practical theory and sracasm,
Get a pedal cycle, hook the rear wheel up to an alternator and inverter and start pedaling, you might want to load up on some good carbs first like spaghetti or pasta rofl.
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Yeah i know right! LOL Thatāll do the trick, jajajajaja! Gonna end up feeling like a hamsterā¦
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Iāve seen some pretty outragous setups on barges in Holland and Belgium. The type of barges used for transporting grains, sands, coal, cement products aggregates etc. The bulk of the space is below waterline, a good carpenter basically makes inot a floating house with a mega basement.
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I would love that type of lifestyle. Cruising waterways, growing dank, while stopping for a pint and pommes frites.
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Pomme frites, lol dont forget the curry sauce and mayo.
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