@Vesti check out this video of a guy repairing a Vivosun fan with a similar problem. To remove the bearings you’ll need a puller that most people won’t have, but you could bring the motor to an auto or bicycle shop and see if they can help, that’s the folks who usually have a bunch of bearing drifts and pullers around, but they’re also quite cheap at Harbor Freight or wherever. In the video he just removes the dust seals on the bearings and repacks them, which is honestly what I’d try first. Crack the fan and remove the motor, pull the dust seals and try to swab out whatever dirty grease is in there with rubbing alcohol or mineral spirits and some Q-tips, let it dry in a warm place for a day or two, then repack the bearings with a little squeeze tube of some high speed bearing grease from the hardware or auto store and pop the seals back on. I’ve done this a million times with sealed bearings on bicycles and it works great, frequently they’re just dry inside because the major difference between cheap and expensive bearings, besides tolerances, is the quality and amount of grease fill they get inside. Cheap ones have cheap grease and bad fill, nice ones have space age grease and full fill, with better seals. In this case the cheap bearings will probably help make it easier to pop the dust seals and repack:
I’m a big fan of Super Lube products, they make dozens of different things, their grease and oils are very popular in bike shops as more reasonably priced and bulk packed alternative to bicycle-specific lubes. They even make a ton of food grade lubricants for kitchens and factories that are pretty useful around the house.
Hey guys I’m sure a lot of y’all have heard about me recent Unfortunate Events with all my tools genetics and girl equipment stolen along with pretty much anything of value when my property got ransacked this last year quality and my wife were stuck out of town with a broken down RV… we’re slowly getting everything back together and trying to get our grow up and running finally got a vehicle yesterday and got a lot of genetics coming in the mail from amazing overgrown members including some stuff to start my mushroom cultivation up again but I still need to get some lights and some heat
If anybody’s got a lead on some good LED lights or know of any equipment that could run off solar power that’d be awesome I’m looking to make a mother/clone/breeding greenhouse tent setup that runs off solar power basically.
I’ve located in Butte County here in Northern California and the rest of my family lives up in Redding or down in Sacramento in the bay so I’m always in between one place or the other.
If you guys know anybody that’s got some old lights or any type of equipment that they’d be able to sell dirt cheap somebody trying to get back on their feet have them hit me up or let me know…
If you’re trying to run off of solar and a battery bank, you’re going to want the most efficient thing you can afford and that’s probably a DIY strip grid with Bridgelux Gen 3 strips. You just need to track down some good wire and framing materials for cheap or free, along with a driver, and follow one of the guides here or on LEDGardener and I bet you can do it for a small mother and breeding space for $1-200 for something very nice and efficient. Just remember that with LEDs the rule of efficiency is run your diodes soft and your drivers hard for the best umol/j, so for a solar setup I’d add an extra strip or two and run them all lower to save that 10-20% because it’ll matter to you.
No worries man, this is the best laid out directions even though it’s a few years old everything still applies just plug in the numbers for the newer strips using their formulas. They got a lot more efficient in the last few years so the Gen 3 are worth the extra money:
And this is the massive LED strip DIY build discussion thread here, to make it more manageable I’d sort for messages from @Gpaw@ReikoX or the OP, @Mr.Sparkle
Among my talents is a surprising amount of off-grid knowledge for someone who’s never done it long term, both the primitive kind and the “modern technology is fine I just don’t have grid electricity or running water” kind. There’s a lot of partially or totally off grid folks in my area but most of them don’t do self sufficiency they’re just in the woods somewhere cheap living in a cabin or trailer or tiny house cabin on a trailer.
One other positive note is that I just got an email from AK Bean brains who had sent $500 for seeds 2 years ago and he got the package back like at the beginning of last year it had gotten lost in the mail for months coming from Alaska… and he told me you can send it to my sister’s address cuz I don’t trust anything going to my property right now… but yeah he told me that a couple weeks ago and I just got the email back from him yesterday saying that it’s in the mail and I thought he was going to have to get payment again cuz he had actually MoneyGrams me my 500 bucks back but he’s just going to let me have them I guess and he kicked in a bunch of free random seeds that are unlabeled that he had laying around so I’m kind of excited about that… so between that and the testers and the freebies that everyone has sent me here I’m f****** set for years to come and I appreciate everybody so much… it’s coming to my attention that I look like a scam or a thief because I did ask for seeds on Z Labs the year before last before everything went to hell and though I posted what happened in my thread I’m realizing that most people didn’t see that and so they just remember me showing up and asking for stuff and then disappearing… and then basically doing the same thing here so I understand that there’s nothing I can do to make people’s minds change except not do what they think that I’m doing and that’s what I intend to do so hopefully I get my growth red started on both the labs and here and be able to show my progress and hopefully get the trust back of the people in the community that I care about a lot… it’s kind of one of the worst feelings to have somebody who’s helped you when you were down think that you were unappreciative or just trying to scam them but I totally understand where they’re coming from…
One thing I do find kind of funny though is that they think I’m trying to like make money off this when there’s no money in weed anymore like when I work to the hydro shop in group plants back in like 2008 I can sell pounds to the east coast for like four grand nowadays people are selling pounds around here for literally $100 there’s absolutely no money in it but it’s just something that I enjoy and I love gardening and I want to be able to grow all kinds of plants and not have to buy my food at the store and stuff but yeah I better put up or shut up so I’ll start my thread here pretty soon and hopefully not look like such a douchebag… this is cross posted in two different threads that I was asking for Stuff in case anyone’s wondering
And no I didn’t spell check it or check for errors so probably looks incoherent and again like a 12-year-old on Ritalin… sorry about the fact that I have to use talk to text guys
Anyways back on topic I got a pretty cool USB chargeable work light that I’m going to use for my ceilings at first had I know it’s not a actual gardening light but supplemented with sunlight I’m sure it’s more than enough to get stuff vegging…
I know it’s not solar but at least I can charge it when I have access to power and I’m hoping that it just a couple of these will be enough for clones and small moms/ dad’s at least enough to get me going till spring
Probably going to grab a couple of those crappy Solar Pathway lights they have at the Dollar Tree and use those to supplement it as well at least it’ll keep stuff from going into flower early
what do they say about necessity? Its the mother of all shitty inventions?
—Selling x2 SP-3000’s from Mars Hydro in like new condition for $600 for both lights + exact shipping—
Lights are a year and a half old, but all the diodes are still working and light up and the wires are not frayed or exposed in any way. Both in 100% working order. The only reason I’m putting them up is to upgrade to an FC-E6500 to better fit the space. Will post pics in this post tonight when I go down next and can send in dm by request.
That off grid stuff is cool af
