Overview
Normal household timers are not built to take the high inductive loads produced by HID ballasts. If used with an HID ballast - the contacts inside the timer that open and close the timed circuit will overheat and weld together - breaking the timer and leaving your grow lights permanently on.
The LUMii Heavy Duty 24 Hour Plug In Timer is different. It is designed to take high loads and has no problem dealing with the inductive loads produced by a 600 watt ballast. This means no separate contactor is required and saves you money. It has a 96 switching operations within a 24 hour period (every 15 minutes). This timer is suitable for timing one 600w HID ballast or up to 6 x 200w CFLs. It has a robust 'inline' case design with socket and timer dust covers.
General Information
Can deal with inductive loads produced by 600W ballast.
Suitable for controlling 1 x 600W HID ballast or 6 x 200W CFL lights.
This Heavy Duty professional contactor is designed for an eight Light Room with limited access to mains power sockets or 8x 600w Lamps.
Each socket has its own power switch with an independent on/off switch. This design is ideal to leave all equipment, i.e Ballasts plugged in, so no need to remove any plugs.
The LUMii Contactors with Grasslin Timer are a reliable, practical and great looking. Lumii contactors are for use with up to 4, 6 or 8 High Pressure Sodium (HPS) or Metal Halide (MH) 1000 watt lights up to a maximum of 4KW.
Many plants are photo periodic – meaning that they produce different hormones depending on how many hours of light they receive per day.
If you are growing plants which are photo periodic, then you will need a timer to regulate your lights, unless you want to switch them on and off manually every day.
For any light over and including 250W you will also need a contactor. A contactor separates the current flowing to your timer from that flowing to your lights.
Without one, your timer will almost definitely fuse – effectively meaning that your lights will remain on when they should turn off.
There are many different contactors available – some have in-built timers, whereas some (such as the Ecotechnic Powerstars) require a separate timer.
Each contactor has a Kilowatt (KW) limit which is the total amount of Watts it can handle. So, for example, a 3KW contactor can handle four lights with a combined total of 3000W.
All of the timers and contactors on this page are safe, reliable and easy to use.
If you want to find out more about a particular product then click on an image to the right or contact us via email, over the phone or at our central South West London store.
