Zen’s Winter Run 2025

[GrumpAzz]

Dry 3 and fuse held.....

What was the fix?

 

[Pipecarver]

What was the fix?

I replaced the receptacle, dry 4 going in now,the old receptacle looks fine, test fine, no smell or soot marks indicating a short. It didn't get damaged or moved...it just failed???? weird but I'm dam glad its finely holding . I've seen receptacles fail in the past but they've been damaged or busted pins, lose wires but just fail???? No bakelite smell, wires were tight I mean wtf...right

 

[GrumpAzz]

I replaced the receptacle, dry 4 going in now,the old receptacle looks fine, test fine, no smell or soot marks indicating a short. It didn't get damaged or moved...it just failed???? weird but I'm dam glad its finely holding . I've seen receptacles fail in the past but they've been damaged or busted pins, lose wires but just fail???? No bakelite smell, wires were tight I mean wtf...right

I guess potentially a bent or misaligned contact point maybe? Manufacturing defect? Poor connection boosting the amp draw when the dry cycle hits?

Is it on a weird spot to reach where you gotta plug it in kinda blind and give it a good smack?

 

[Pipecarver]

I guess potentially a bent or misaligned contact point maybe? Manufacturing defect? Poor connection boosting the amp draw when the dry cycle hits?

Is it on a weird spot to reach where you gotta plug it in kinda blind and give it a good smack?

It was most likely the original plug, must be 60 years old. It started to blow fuses a few months ago, there were no changes in anything. The dryer was only 2 years old so the plug worked fine for 24 months after plugging in the new dryer then all of a sudden for no apparent reason it starts to fail after about 15 -20 min of using the dryer????...next thing was swapping out the #10

 

[seeking_pilgrim]

I replaced the receptacle, dry 4 going in now,the old receptacle looks fine, test fine, no smell or soot marks indicating a short. It didn't get damaged or moved...it just failed???? weird but I'm dam glad its finely holding . I've seen receptacles fail in the past but they've been damaged or busted pins, lose wires but just fail???? No bakelite smell, wires were tight I mean wtf...right

A while back I had a similar issue. Lost an entire leg of a circuit out of nowhere. Turned out to be a failed receptacle that was feeding a branch off the main circuit leg with no visible indication of why it failed. Figured it was probably just its time -- 50 years of service and it silently called it quits.

Was super frustrating for like a week -- sometimes all the lights would work off of that branch, sometimes only one, and sometimes none, then it finally became just none, ever. Originally thought it was the switch being on the fritz (kind of expected in a bathroom, at the moment) but after tracing wires and watching for where voltage stopped flowing, was able to determine it was that receptacle.

 

[Zen_seeker]

Strangest electrical issue we had was losing power intermittently. Wasn’t even the whole house most if the time. After days, weeks actually, of checking things after work I was finally able to figure it out. I was outside sitting on the front stoop on a windy day. I noticed the main line going to our pole was swinging from the wind. When I went back inside the stove and microwave needed the clicks reset. A few other things had lost power while I was outside. The next time we had issues I went outside and watched the line. My wife was watching the stove and microwave. It was real winding with high gusts. Every time it blew hard the wire would rock and my wife would yell it did it again.

Called the hydro company and in minutes they came and had a look. He went up in a cherry picker and found the line was almost off. In fact he said it came off in his hand as soon as he touched it.

They are forever making changes and additions around here and when they moved our line from the Main Street to the side street they must not have clamped it down hard enough. It’s been fine ever since but they still make changes and move things around without a warning or notice.

Glad you got it fixed Pipe. I hope you can do something with the extra dryer.

 

[Pipecarver]

Strangest electrical issue we had was losing power intermittently. Wasn’t even the whole house most if the time. After days, weeks actually, of checking things after work I was finally able to figure it out. I was outside sitting on the front stoop on a windy day. I noticed the main line going to our pole was swinging from the wind. When I went back inside the stove and microwave needed the clicks reset. A few other things had lost power while I was outside. The next time we had issues I went outside and watched the line. My wife was watching the stove and microwave. It was real winding with high gusts. Every time it blew hard the wire would rock and my wife would yell it did it again.

Called the hydro company and in minutes they came and had a look. He went up in a cherry picker and found the line was almost off. In fact he said it came off in his hand as soon as he touched it.

They are forever making changes and additions around here and when they moved our line from the Main Street to the side street they must not have clamped it down hard enough. It’s been fine ever since but they still make changes and move things around without a warning or notice.

Glad you got it fixed Pipe. I hope you can do something with the extra dryer.

Its on the deck covered in snow and ice, guts exposed...$500 fkin mistake...not a happy camper, fkin receptacle.....

 

[Zen_seeker]

Its on the deck covered in snow and ice, guts exposed...$500 fkin mistake...not a happy camper, fkin receptacle.....

You know shit happens. Try not to let it get to you. I’ve got my own dryer sitting under a tarp on my basement sidewalk. Needs a belt and new cable. Lightning strike killed the receptacle and cord.

Receptacle was replaced. I took a power cord off my other dryer. But need a belt. Not sure if the dryer even works now that it’s sat outside for a year.

 

[Pipecarver]

You know shit happens. Try not to let it get to you. I’ve got my own dryer sitting under a tarp on my basement sidewalk. Needs a belt and new cable. Lightning strike killed the receptacle and cord.

Receptacle was replaced. I took a power cord off my other dryer. But need a belt. Not sure if the dryer even works now that it’s sat outside for a year.

I opened my garage door this am and the cable /chain fell off. no big deal I reattached, now I can't get the fkin thing to close right, I said fk it, came in and now having a few smokes, I'll get out there and see wtf is wrong now. I'm also having some problems getting enough healthy sprouts, 1 seed didn't crack and 2 that are up are deformed, one should make it but the other is sad looking with a single second leaf. I dropped another and have it in towels now

 

[Zen_seeker]

I opened my garage door this am and the cable /chain fell off. no big deal I reattached, now I can't get the fkin thing to close right, I said fk it, came in and now having a few smokes, I'll get out there and see wtf is wrong now. I'm also having some problems getting enough healthy sprouts, 1 seed didn't crack and 2 that are up are deformed, one should make it but the other is sad looking with a single second leaf. I dropped another and have it in towels now

Your in the middle of the last wave of cold and snow we had iirc. I’ve stopped trying to pop seeds before March unless desperate. Clones I can still do, they just take longer if really cold.

Seems you have my luck lately. Sorry bud. Didn’t know it was contagious.

 

[Zen_seeker]

20260204: GM & GGB#4 T-2

Scoping again Friday/Saturday. Think I’m getting allergies. Nose runs and eyes sting when I water or cleanup the plants.

Family is pretty much over whatever bug we caught. Some chest phlegm and nose seems to always run a little. We’re just tired all the time.

Here’s hoping they finish by the weekend so we can chop and hang them.

Have a good everybody.

 

[Pipecarver]

Hey, beauties buds & nice leaf colour still. I like that, I see a lot of plants with dead leaves near the end and that doesn't need to happen....Obviously....to me, fading is one thing but yellow dying crispy is another. I think some cut nitrogen either completely or by too much too early. That graph I use shows all nutes tapering off together over the last weeks. I've cut my numbers too early and got the crispy yellow leaves in the past I find if I drop below 3ml/gal Grow & Micro the yellowing starts. Healthy leaves = Healthy buds when leaves are crispy or all yellowed up they can't absorb the light energy and too me that means keep feeding them so they don't lose colour until you want them to......anyways that's my spiel about keeping pretty leaves pretty for this morning.......Cary on as if I were normal....

 

[Zen_seeker]

Hey, beauties buds & nice leaf colour still. I like that, I see a lot of plants with dead leaves near the end and that doesn't need to happen....Obviously....to me, fading is one thing but yellow dying crispy is another. I think some cut nitrogen either completely or by too much too early. That graph I use shows all nutes tapering off together over the last weeks. I've cut my numbers too early and got the crispy yellow leaves in the past I find if I drop below 3ml/gal Grow & Micro the yellowing starts. Healthy leaves = Healthy buds when leaves are crispy or all yellowed up they can't absorb the light energy and too me that means keep feeding them so they don't lose colour until you want them to......anyways that's my spiel about keeping pretty leaves pretty for this morning.......Cary on as if I were normal....

It’s okay but not my best run. The high humidity, really cold days, and too many large plants for the space have made things difficult. Any leaf that rubs or touches the tent sides gets mucked up fingers.

The Woohoo fans are too strong and seem to dry out the leaves as well.

I’ve been getting some like this the last few weeks. I just pluck them when they get bad.


I’m sure I cut down on the N too soon. Every other grow I get it wrong. After week four of flower is when I know if I screwed up or not.

This is my first run with the dry nutes so I think I did okay but definitely could do better. Live and learn.

Really depressed these days. Everything is going to shit and breaking. City water is being stupid again. And the city bus shelter plows filled 1/3 of my driveway with snow as filled the area we put our snow. Good news was I ran out this morning in my PJs at 5:45am to ask the plow guy who paused if he would please get someone to move it. He was an older guy about my age and after a bit said okay. Turns out he did it himself. His truck was the big snow thrower that gets rid of the curb mounds buy throwing it into a bunch of dump trucks. Best thing to happen in a while.

After a bunch of testing and charging it seems the battery is the problem with the EPS. Car wouldn’t start yesterday when I started to work on it. Charged it up and it started first try and EPS worked fine. But after turning it off it was to weak to start the car again. It almost looks like something is draining the battery as the meter shows the volts drop pretty quick when the charger is removed. When my son got home I had him turn it over and the voltage finally hit a low number 9.99v. Should be above 10v. All the rest of the numbers where good. 12.45v sitting. 14.57v running.

So today I need to find and bus to Canadian Tire that has a battery. We are appointments and groceries to get.

I just want to go back to bed. But that’s not going to help. Have to keep trying.

Family is so tired we crash around 9pm but keep waking around 3-4am. Poor dog isn’t able to get her sleep trying to stay up with me.

Ah well. The snow piles gone. It’s a start. Hope that guy has a great day, he helped make mine better.

L8r peeps.

 

[Pipecarver]

It’s okay but not my best run. The high humidity, really cold days, and too many large plants for the space have made things difficult. Any leaf that rubs or touches the tent sides gets mucked up fingers.

The Woohoo fans are too strong and seem to dry out the leaves as well.

I’ve been getting some like this the last few weeks. I just pluck them when they get bad.
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I’m sure I cut down on the N too soon. Every other grow I get it wrong. After week four of flower is when I know if I screwed up or not.

This is my first run with the dry nutes so I think I did okay but definitely could do better. Live and learn.

Really depressed these days. Everything is going to shit and breaking. City water is being stupid again. And the city bus shelter plows filled 1/3 of my driveway with snow as filled the area we put our snow. Good news was I ran out this morning in my PJs at 5:45am to ask the plow guy who paused if he would please get someone to move it. He was an older guy about my age and after a bit said okay. Turns out he did it himself. His truck was the big snow thrower that gets rid of the curb mounds buy throwing it into a bunch of dump trucks. Best thing to happen in a while.

After a bunch of testing and charging it seems the battery is the problem with the EPS. Car wouldn’t start yesterday when I started to work on it. Charged it up and it started first try and EPS worked fine. But after turning it off it was to weak to start the car again. It almost looks like something is draining the battery as the meter shows the volts drop pretty quick when the charger is removed. When my son got home I had him turn it over and the voltage finally hit a low number 9.99v. Should be above 10v. All the rest of the numbers where good. 12.45v sitting. 14.57v running.

So today I need to find and bus to Canadian Tire that has a battery. We are appointments and groceries to get.

I just want to go back to bed. But that’s not going to help. Have to keep trying.

Family is so tired we crash around 9pm but keep waking around 3-4am. Poor dog isn’t able to get her sleep trying to stay up with me.

Ah well. The snow piles gone. It’s a start. Hope that guy has a great day, he helped make mine better.

L8r peeps.

Its February, for me the worst month of the year, cold, short, grey, bills all come in, add a car problem, dryer blowing fuses or illness I'm a bit surprised I'm not jumping off a high bridge each year Feb comes around . Costco run today with snow supposed to start around 3pm, should be a fun drive home.