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Lights Timers
The controller has special timer controls for lighting equipment including two 24-hour lighting timers (one for each zone,) each
with their own secondary ‘B’ bank. The ‘B’ bank can be delayed to activate after the ‘A’ bank for reduced electrical load on
start-up.
Each lighting stage has its own hot-fire prevention timer which will prevent the lighting outputs from re-activating for a set
duration once turned off. The hot fire prevention timer ensures lamp bulbs and ballasts will not be damaged due to hot-firing.
See ‘System Settings’ for hot-fire timer configuration.
Lighting Timer: Enter the time of day (in 24-hour format 0:00-23:59) when the lights should turn on and off.
Output: Enter the output(s) for the primary (A) and secondary (B) lighting banks as connected to the controller. If B is not
used, leave it assigned to 0.
Delay (B Bank): Delay time (seconds) to start bank ‘B’ after bank ‘A.’
The lighting menu is accessed from the “Controls” menu under the “Lights” button.
Light-Flip Box Control
GrowControl
TM
is designed to safely and properly switch over lights on a light flip box. For extended light flip box contactor life,
ballasts should be turned off prior to switching the flip box trigger position. This prevents arcing and burning of the contacts
and also ensures the ballasts fire the bulbs properly after being switched.
Simply set the time of day to turn the flip trigger on and off and enter a delay time for switching. The delay time (seconds) will
be applied after turning off the lighting output before changing the state of the flip trigger, and after the trigger has been
flipped before re-starting the lights.
Bank A
Output
Bank B
Output
On
Off
On
Off
Lights ‘On’ Time
Lights ‘Off’ Time
Bank B
Delay
Hot-fire timer keeps lights Off
The lights timer settings are accessed on the first page of the
controls menu by pressing the “Light” controls button then
“Light Timer” button.
Lights can be operated by a 24-
hour on/off timer. Enter the on
and off times, and select the
lights output#. Press “Bank”
button to show delayed bank B.
The 24-hour light timer can be
divided into two banks with a
on-delay to reduce electrical
load spikes when the lighting
timer activates.
Lights
Output
Flip Box
Output
On
Off
On
Off
Flip Box ‘On’ Time
Flip Box ‘Off’ Time
Delay
